- bias and judgment of single, married, young, old, or middle-aged women who are pregnant - does your church have an outreach for women parishioners and people in the community who are pregnant but are afraid or feeling like they can't handle raising this child (no matter how many they have, no matter how young they are)... we need to embrace with unconditional love the women going through these pregnancies.
- Pro-Contraception people... the laugh of the day and the newest wave of pro-choice banter... say that they want to increase availability and affordability of contraception for unplanned pregnancies to all so that abortions will decrease.
- "Unplanned" "Unwanted" "Unwelcome" pregnancies are misnomers. The words don't make any sense. Everyone admits that reproduction is a word that involves reproducing something... right? Ok. That's what those organs are primarily for ... reproduction. There are 2 facets to sexuality - pleasure and procreation. You can't have one without the other. Sorry, "happiness" people, you can have sex and have pleasure, but don't say you can have sex and not have children unless you are sterilized. Sorry, there are ZERO forms of birth control that can guarantee you will not get pregnant except for abstinence. So the word "unplanned" and "unwanted" doesn't apply - you were mature enough to make your choice to have sex which means you made a choice to risk pregnancy unless you have no clue as to what sex actually achieves... pleasure and reproduction. Not always is there a pregnancy; but there is always a chance, no matter how small.
- There is no such thing as "safe" sex. It is not 100% safe unless you abstain from it; and that's not sex.
- Responsibility for the consequences of actions. Many pro-choicers don't like to correlate sexuality with the consequence of pregnancy. They do not want to take responsibility for their actions. I think the Obama "punishment of a child" quote will go down in infamy. Children are a potential consequence of a sexually active life for married, unmarried, young (fertile), middle-aged, older (pre-menopausal) women alike.
- Men are responsible for the consequences of their actions as well; they do not have to go through the embarassment (provided by society's bias and judgment) of pregnancy nor the pain of childbirth or procedures surrounding delivery. They don't have any physical consequences, but they do have a responsibility equal to women. So the same principle applies... children are a potential consequence of a sexually active life for married, unmarried, young (fertile), middle aged, older (fertile) men alike. No exceptions.
Friday, January 23, 2009
What the Pro-Life Movement Needs to Address
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