The above image is so wrong. I bet you anything that Jesus Christ was pro-choice. It’s simple, he was the son of God, and God gave us free will.
As I understand it, free will means that we have the right to make our own decisions. If God, the most Supreme Being, gave us this right and even put a tree in the Garden of Eden— that He knew would result in Adam & Eve going against His will—then we can safely deduct He was pretty serious about letting us choose our own path.
I’ll stop being irreverent to turn to the term pro-life. That’s a pretty impactful name. It’s too bad that it’s so misleading. As I see it, a person who is pro-life should not believe in the death penalty, or in wars, and should believe in gun control. I find that too many of those who call themselves pro-life believe in capital punishment and are anti-gun-control warmongers. This is incomprehensible to me.
As you must have guessed, I am pro-choice. But, I am also a mother. I know what it’s like to feel life inside my body and to bring life into this world. I understand the strong feelings of anti-abortion advocates who believe that abortion is killing a baby, especially if the abortion is done later rather than sooner. This is why I think that all abortions should be done as early as possible in the pregnancy. In fact, I believe that every woman should have the over-the-counter, morning-after pill in her medicine cabinet in case of rape or unprotected sex.
Mayo Clinic explains that, “An estimated 1 to 2 women will become pregnant out of 100 women who have unprotected sex one time and correctly use the morning-after pill.” This means that 98% to 99% of women who take the morning-after pill after unprotected sex will not get pregnant, thus eliminating a good number of abortions.
The morning-after pill is not RU-486, otherwise known as the abortion pill, which terminates a pregnancy (that is, after the fertilized egg has attached to the wall of the uterus and begun to develop). But even this pill, administered very early in the pregnancy, would be a good alternative to later-term abortions, in my opinion.
God did give us free will, but Jesus also loved children most of all and saved them. Something to think about.
“It is ironic that a country who was founded by people escaping from religious intolerance can have so many intolerant people.”
word. no seriously. I found myself arguing immigration the other day and said it was un-American to be so anti-immigrant. I’m anti-illegals, but it’s utterly ridiculous how difficult we make it to come to this country legally, to pursue our dreams. I’m not saying let them come and then take care of them. I’m saying let them come and take care of themselves. If it means prices increase because we’re now paying everyone a decent wage, so be it.
whoa, I got off topic. (I do that, sometimes.) I came here to post that I feel the abortion issue is one of the fundamental contradictions of the GOP. How on earth can they be so anti-abortion (I refuse to call them pro-life) when they’re all about the death penalty?
To be pro-choice does not mean pro-abortion. Don’t like abortion? Don’t have one. But I’ll be darned if I’m going to give up my choice quietly. Like those bumper stickers that say, “thank god mom was pro-life.” umm, no. My mom was and always will be very much pro-choice. And we’re pro-choice on everything.
I completely disagree with the image too, I am a Christian and I am also pro choice ❤️ Women should have the right to THEIR OWN BODIES and in my country (Northern Ireland) we do not have that choice, every day women need to make the terrifying trip to England JUST SO THAT THEY CAN CONTROL THEIR OWN BODY, this isn’t right. 77% of pro life are male, 100% of them will NEVER experience pregnancy, if we want equality then it starts here. We must persist, we must fight for what we NEED, and we must fight for equality.