H/T to Kelly at Lady in the Pew for drawing attention to a column by David Harsanyi in the Denver Post. Here's a snip:
After a life of being pro-choice, I began to seriously ponder the question. I oppose the death penalty because there is a slim chance that an innocent person might be executed and I don't believe the state should have the authority to take a citizen's life. So don't I owe an nascent human life at least the same deference? Just in case?
You may not consider a fetus a "human life" in early pregnancy, though it has its own DNA and medical science continues to find ways to keep the fetus viable outside the womb earlier and earlier.
But it's difficult to understand how those who harp about the importance of "science" in public policy can draw an arbitrary timeline in the pregnancy, defining when human life is worth saving and when it can be terminated.
The more I thought about it, the creepier the issue got.
(Read the complete article here.)
This is wonderful. Thank you for sharing a column I might never have seen.
ReplyDeleteThis was an issue that took me time to get my mind around after a long absence from church. For me to profess belief, I have to really believe what I am saying, thinking, living... not just following the teachings without question. That may sound heretical. In the end I do follow, but I am always questioning, studying, questioning etc. It is the only way that I know how to live, right or wrong.
I am grateful for my long struggle - I am so very sorry that it took so long though. However, God guided me and I guess things work out as they do for some reason.
Coming from my perspective, one that is very pro-life now, I must say that the columnist is quite right... the more that you think about it, the creepier it is. (Although I would not use the word creepy!)
That is a big problem for changing minds and hearts... who really, and I mean really wants to enter into this? It is complicated and challenges you at your own bones and in your soul.
Which is precisely why it must be entered into if we are to have any moral consistency.
Fran
Thanks for sharing! We need to overflow the web and the media with articles like this. We have to stop attacking Obama and any abortion rights supporters. We need to win their hearts like the columnist's heart was won!
ReplyDeleteReason and justice always prevail, sooner or later. We just need to get them thinking. Attacking somebody never made anybody use their reason.
"Attacking somebody never made anybody use their reason."
ReplyDeleteGood advice for the comboxes, too, Xavier!