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I respectfully disagree wth the premise of the original piece, at least in part.

While I do not defend the use of IUDs and respect the beliefs of those who disagree with the pill (my personal opinion is that if the chances are great that fertilization has not occured that panicing over the potential instance of the last line of defense is perhaps too much presumption but I would not argue the point) I believe the "sin in the camp" lies in another, more obvious, place.

The church has been seduced, along with the world, by filthy lucre.

The simple truth is that we could have stopped abortion by electing pro-life politicians. We have the votes, if everyone who believed pro-life voted that way, to dominate the body politic, but we don't because too many "Christian" voters have regulated the issue of life to a subordinate position behind which candidate will put or leave the most money in their pocket (whether it be by handouts, tax cuts, more school money, or whatever).

They have sold the right to vote pro-life and so pro-choice politicians keep winning in sufficiant number to styme pro-life efforts. It's all well and good to wring your hands about the kind of leadership we have, but it means spit if you sell your vote for the nexr empty promise that emerges from the lips of that fellow whom you KNOW will not act to save lives.

Most prominent current example:

Tons of California Republicans will vote for the pro-death candidate whom they think can solve the budget problem. They may say "McClintock can't change the abortion issue by himself" which is very true - so who elected all those blood-money legislators?

Want to see things REALY change in America? Wait for the next Great Depression. Until people have their piles of gold stripped from them they will not be able to focus on anything else.

The simple truth is that we could have stopped abortion by electing pro-life politicians. We have the votes, if everyone who believed pro-life voted that way, to dominate the body politic, but we don't because too many "Christian" voters have regulated the issue of life to a subordinate position behind which candidate will put or leave the most money in their pocket (whether it be by handouts, tax cuts, more school money, or whatever).

This is true and in a much larger sense than you describe above. We all support a culture which values monetary gain and material sucess. To that end we are all complicit in abortion.

Morever, many people promote (and have promoted historically) a social dogma which does not hold both parties to procreation, repsponsible for the consequences of their actions. I cannot count the number of "Christins" I have met who do do not hold both parties to conception responsible and obligated to support/care for their offspring. In that, they are complicit in abortion.

Let he who casts the first stone ..... first consider his/her own complicity in word and deed in supporting a culture that values material gain over supporting life and upholding the concept of personal repsonsibility ... in large and small decisions and in beliefs that we hold.

"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them." ___ A. Einstein