Posted on 05/21/2019 8:41:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
I have always cared about the vulnerable. When I was a teenager, it was animals. I would drive my mother crazy because I was always bringing home a stray dog or a cat. When I got to college, I volunteered in a state-funded daycare, where many of the children were in foster care I saw first-hand the effects of poverty, a lack of access to job education and career skills, and the growing drug epidemic. My heart was torn open. I became a court-appointed special advocate, known simply as CASA in many states, and began to advocate for children and their families. In my 20s, I spent time working in foreign missions, traveling to third world countries to work with profoundly disabled children who had been abandoned by their parents to orphanages.
With all this recent debate on abortion, I was reminded that these poor children could all have been spared this pain and suffering had they just been aborted.
I remembered the one little girl who disclosed to me that her grandfather was sexually molesting her. She was in relative foster care because her incarcerated mother was a drug addict. Had her mom chosen abortion, that sweet child would never have been sexually assaulted by a family member.
I think about the children of Mustard Seed Communities in Jamaica who have profound disabilities. Many of them are non-verbal, can’t walk and will spend their whole lives confined to wheelchairs, beds and medical equipment that in some cases keep them alive. If Jamaica decriminalized abortion, those children would never have been born and they would never have to suffer with a quality of life that most people could never imagine.
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No. But we underestimate the consequences.
The author makes a good point but does so in a somewhat round-about manner. It took me a little while to be sure that she wasn’t a feminazi trying to justify abortion. Turns out she’s not that and she actually takes a moral stance.
Thanks for this.
The thought came to me: Love multiplies. Selfishness subtracts.
“Compassionate” abortion for the poor, damaged, carelessly or criminally conceived, etc. is a kind of idiot arithmetic consisting solely of subtraction.
I think I understand where the author is going with her article.
You can prevent a lot of life’s pains (and pleasures) for people if we just kill you, but we won’t call it killing and we won’t acknowledge that you are a human being, or even that you are alive, or ever existed.
After all, we all know that it’s only a baby if he/she is wanted, and if he/she is wanted, then we all know that he/she is a baby from the very beginning.
In a very cold and calculating manner, we have been taught that our purpose in life is not to love, but to serve.
And it is the very dregs of society that want us to serve them.
Why should we be “wasting” resources on these other people when those resources could be going to our betters and their friends and family?
If you take Jesus out of a society, it isn’t too long before “Do unto others as you would have done to you” becomes a phrase that is laughed at.
The Democrats talk a lot about caring, but they all seem to like money more.
When “love” becomes conflated with homosexual buggery and sodomite mockery of marriage … yes, “we” have forgotten what love even is.
Remember, the opposite of love isn’t hate, but indifference.
She says “I” nine times in the first paragraph alone.
When “love” is equated with free fornication (see post 2), yes, “we” have forgotten what love even is.
One thing that can be said about buggery, regardless of the sex of its object, is that it never produces babies.
I didn’t know where she was going at first, but by the end she had warmed my heart.
A culture in which tales of fornication and adultery are billed as “love stories” is corrupt.
Yes, that is definitely true.
It’s 100% opposed to human nature to kill one’s baby. It’s normal to bond with one’s baby and to live him/her. Abortion is the denial of human nature.
‘We don’t know how to love with the same kind of love that our Creator used when he formed us’
let me see if I got this right; the Creator creates all these unfortunate individuals, their crises and their conditions, and it’s our fault because we don’t love them as much as the Creator who created them flawed in the first place...got it...
Our friends on the left and some on the right have, yes.
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