Are you pro-life?

daniel on Jan 16th 2007

We agree that abortion is murder. We agree that life is sacred and good. We agree that death is evil and unnatural.

We also agree with Jesus that though it has been said, An eye for an eye, we should rather Return good for evil.

How than can you be pro-life so often and yet be pro-death in war? How can you claim that a foetus is a person with a soul and yet act like an enemy combatant or a terrorist is a monster with no heart?

Maybe you’ve never thought of it in those terms. Maybe you’ve never pictured war as people fighting people. Maybe in war you view the enemy as a faceless evil.

But then maybe your pro-choice neighbour has never though about it in those terms either. Maybe he’s never pictured a foetus as a human. Maybe she views abortion as junking unneeded tissue.

Maybe you’ve asked yourself, How can these people devalue life this way?. Have you ever imagined someone asking the same question about you?

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4 Responses to “Are you pro-life?”

  1. # Jason Priceon 16 Jan 2007 at 4:07 pm

    Balance is hard. Is Abortion 100% always evil? No. In the case of a tubal pregnancy, almost any ‘pro-lifer’ will say abortion is the only option, because otherwise the mother and the baby will die.

    Is war 100% evil? No. I don’t think that you’re looking for a discussion of ‘Just War’, or even worse a discussion of whether the current challenges in Middle East qualify as a ‘Just War’, but (at least for me) the concept does exist.

    But yes… a full pro-life stance includes being against abortion, being against euthanasia, against the death penalty, and against war.

  2. # danielon 16 Jan 2007 at 4:15 pm

    Jason, I most certainly don’t believe abortion is always wrong. Or that war is always wrong. Or that assisted suicide, to name another tangential issue, is always wrong.

    But I’ve been exposed lately to some people who are very much in favour of war (I guess you might call them Hawks or something), while strongly objecting to abortion. Maybe it was the contrast of those two beliefs, or the disconnect there, but something about being pro-life all the time resonated with me.

    And yes, you’re very right that I don’t want to discuss Iraq or anything else like that. I just want to talk about war, period, in the hope that if I talk to the wall and the wall talks back, I can develop an informed opinion :)

  3. # Guson 16 Jan 2007 at 5:08 pm

    I like the concept of killing people and breaking their stuff. I think it the natural expression of our mandate here on earth, to subdue and fill the earth, If a few unfortunate bastards get in the way of my ideologies, well.. sod em – Doesn’t change how I live.

  4. # danielon 16 Jan 2007 at 5:54 pm

    So my question is, did Britain adopt you, or did Canada kick you out? ;)