by Sandy » Tue Apr 09, 2019 9:46 am
I'm opposed to abortion as a means of birth control, and that opposition is directly the result of my Christian faith and convictions. The problem with attempting to formulate any legislation to restrict the practice is that there are cases when it is a medically necessary procedure, and that doesn't necessarily fit into a political agenda. And in the case of laws like this, you're not talking about convictions, you're talking about how to use this issue to the political advantage of one side in attempts to get a Supreme Court ruling in order to get some kind of legal precedent set. So it becomes hypocritical for conservatives to throw around rhetoric about "strangling a living baby in the delivery room."
The fact of the matter is that in this country, at this time, a pretty substantial majority of the population, including some who claim to hold sincere Christian beliefs, do not hold the view that life begins at conception, and that it is a personal choice to abort a fetus prior to its viability outside the womb, not a matter of right or wrong. So the rhetoric and the battle has moved to abortion after viability, where almost all abortions are performed for medical, not birth control reasons. The claim that laws like this can have the kind of effect characterized as "criminalizing miscarriage" is not just "leftist, pro-abortion scare talk." It is a common problem anytime you have an attempt to legislate how a doctor can perform a medical procedure. Most of the people who support this kind of legislation are perfectly fine with gun laws that allow nut jobs to murder children in their classroom. End of that argument.
This country has churches everywhere which have invested trillions of dollars in comfortable facilities in which most of them rattle around like a b-b in a cannon. We have massive numbers of paid staff, professionally trained in multi-billion dollar colleges and universities, and spend multiple millions on high dollar praise music and the professionals who produce it for an hour of religious theater on Sunday morning. With all of that, we are losing ground in the battle to retain members and evangelize their children, and not making any real difference among the non-Christian population. Somewhere, in the expenditure of all of those resources, you would think that someone would have figured out that holding a perspective of the sanctity of human life that extends to conception requires life transformation, not a piece of legislation or a court ruling that is most likely never going to take place.