Now you know one person (me) who is either a TE or a PC (I have
trouble discerning the difference) and who is not prolife, at least as
I understand the word.
Or maybe I am both prolife & prochoice. I don't know. What I do
know is that the way the issue has polarized leaves me quite far from both
sides.
I wish it were a simple issue; it is not.
One position I take very strongly -- the issue is always highly personal and
is between a woman and her doctor. The govmint has no business in that
discussion.
Another position I take strongly -- I would NEVER give advice to a woman to
get an abortion, health issues excepted.
Another position I take strongly -- adoption is at least a partial answer. We
adopted three, ourselves. For those screaming "prolife," I ask, "How
many did you adopt?" If the number is zero, I,m not going to give you much of a
hearing.
Both sides ought to be working hard to try to eliminate the NEED for abortions.
For, legal or not, 1 to 2 million have occurred each year for the past many
decades, long
before Roe. Making them legal appears to have resulted in fewer women's deaths.
What the church believes and teaches to its members is a whole nother ballgame.
But we live in a pluralistic society -- it's 50:50 on this issue nationwide; if
all
abortions were banned by law tomorrow, the absolute volume of same would not
change
very significantly. You do not change people's hearts by laws; you change them
by persuasion.
Well -- this is far off the subject of this reflector. I'll shut up.
Burgy