A manager and another employee got into a discussion about politics and what party they stood behind and such. The manager, a republican, was questioning the employee, a democrat, about the issue of abortion. (I started this by asking the manager how he voted, and managed to escape direct conversation while still enabling myself to listen in.) The manager, being rather conservative, believes that abortion is wrong period, end of discussion. The employee believes it to be wrong only when people go out and are stupid/unprotected and have abortions left and right out of their idiocy. However, the employee believes it to be alright when the mother will die if the baby is born, or the baby is going to die anyway, or other circumstances alter an otherwise normal pregnancy/birth.
The matters of life and death have been on my mind recently because of the death of my friends mother. Here is how I see it, and perhaps I see it this way because a friend challenged my perspective over the summer, but nonetheless:
A person lives to fulfill God's divine will. We, being human, do not usually know what God's will for our life is; we probably will not know when we accomplish it, and therefore we do not know when our time on earth is done. Now, if a woman (or girl, I suppose) becomes pregnant, her child has a purpose and a so-called destiny. The mother does not know what the destiny is, nor the child, but there is something that God has designed especially for this baby to do in its lifetime; God has created this being to have an impact on the world that He has ordained to no one else. What right has the mother to take that away?
Now, you say, what if the mother died because the baby was born? Well, I will go back to my original statement. A person lives to fulfill God's divine will, which we do not understand. Perhaps that mother was born to give birth to her child, so that the child may accomplish wonderful things and impact many lives, more than the mother could do if she had lived and had an abortion. Or perhaps things would have been worse down the road if she had stayed. Either way, if she passes while the baby lives, she has fulfilled whatever God had planned for her.
Some would argue the case of rape or incest. To that I ask a question: Why would you punish the innocent baby for a crime that it did not commit? For rape: it is the rapist who should be punished for what he or she did, not the unborn child. Same thing for incest. Give it up for adoption if the mother doesn't want it; there are plenty of couples out there longing for children. A grave longs for no one.
That is my take on abortion.
6 comments:
i agree, i didn't know if i was going to cause i wasn't sure where you were gonna fall at first. at the same time, i have no idea how much it hurts to be in that situation, where you're gonna lose a kid or lose yourself or lose your friend or somebody that matters to you. so even though i'd rather have God's will, it might make me mad sometimes, especially in that kind of situation. i guess it means you can understand the family's pain a little better.
oh dude the right sides of our blogs are in the same format!! i had no idea lol i just changed mine to be like that the other day
This is exactly where I stand on this issue. Exactly.
But people have said, 'well, why would you put it up for adoption? there are thousands of children in adoption agencys who never get adopted. it would be better to just kill it before it's a person.'
but they don't seem to understand the importance of life the more I talk to them. The value of life.
But I gotta go clean, my mom's going to have a heartattach if she screams anymore. hahaha.
you aren't going to the girls day thing today?!? what!
yeah, I know! She has to work!!!! :(((((
yeah girl. All day I've been either feeling like sleeping, thinking about random questions, having stellar kart songs in my head, or thinking about what the speakers said.
=)
i like this post mucho.
ready for sunday?
coffee, chruch, *****, and friends.
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