To Gyngi
Since Gyngi has decided to post forceful topics without the option to comment on them, I guess i'll just have to make do with a post dedicated to responding to that (which I have a very hard time believing she wrote herself, i'm betting it was copied and pasted from some website "30 years" is a little longer than she's been alive
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Is her "choice" the overriding concern? This is effectively answered by considering a different issue, one that also raises a significant moral question.
Let's consider a hypothetical situation: A group of young men have just started a "Right to Rape" organization. They explain that they believe they have the right to choose to rape women. The real question, they tell us, is "Who decides, us or the government? We believe the government should stay out of this very private matter." Furthermore, they want the state to set up tax funded centers where they can rape women in a safe, legal fashion. What should our response be?
We would promptly reply: "You can't do that. Rape is wrong!"
Note carefully the answer. The "real question," the first, most important and overriding question, is not "who decides," but a question about the action itself.
We must first ask ourselves, "Is rape right or wrong?" Only then can we answer the question of who has the right to choose to do it.
We could use other human actions that also have obvious moral overtones to illustrate this. Does a burglar have the right to choose to rob your house? A husband to abuse his wife and children? Of course not. The most critical question always is to first judge the action itself.
And so it is with abortion. First, one must ask, "Is abortion right or wrong?" Only then can we consider a second question and ask "Who can choose to do this?"
Rights have limits... I have a right to swing my fist, but that right stops at your nose. We have the right to freedom of speech, but not to shout "fire" in a theater. We have a right to freedom of religion, but not if that religion involves human sacrifice.
A woman has a right to her body, but this new being, growing within her is not part of her body. Rather, this is a totally different human being, half of whom are even of a different sex.
Compassion for her... Pro-lifers in their concern for pregnant women and their needs have established numerous women helping centers (7,000 and growing). There are also almost 6,000 Right to Life chapters. The volunteers who staff both are overwhelmingly female. In addition, pro-lifers take pregnant women into their homes, collect maternity and baby clothes and adopt children far more frequently than other citizens, very often babies with handicaps.
They offer legal, medical and social help for women during and after their pregnancies and after their abortions.
The abortion industry, in contrast, offers a violent "solution" to her problem... abortion. They have no other choices available for the pregnant woman in need of help. The pro-life movement stands with her. The rights of women and the rights of the unborn should be joined. Loving alternatives like adoption must be the focus of our debate. We reach out to every woman faced with the agony of abortion and say to her, "Your life and the life of your baby are both important, and we will not desert either one of you."
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