Would it not be great if we could live life with no consequences? We all suffer at times from things that we've done in the past. And while it's pretty common for people to make claims that our past does not define us, reality is that it actually does. Things that we do can have impact for decades. In my own life, something that I did back in 1995, while it appeared to be a good idea at the time, I realized about a year later that it was probably the biggest mistake that I ever made. And today, nearly 27 years later, every day I pay the consequences for that one decision.
The current topic though is the abortion issue, and more specifically, Roe vs Wade. The death culture will claim "women's rights", or "reproductive rights". They claim that an unborn baby, since it cannot survive outside of the womb, is not really alive.
There are also frequent claims that abortion is needed for cases of rape or incest or for life threatening instances. I've been having a discussion with someone for the last day that makes arguments of "forced" pregnancies.
We have been living in a death culture for several decades. It has actually expanded, there are people, who have actually been somewhat outspoken, that feel elderly should be terminated too. When society stops valuing life at it's conception, life along the way becomes cheaper. And when society is focused only on material profits, elderly are not profitable and so they are simply a burden.
An area that has totally baffled me for years is how any professing Christian can actually believe that it's OK to kill babies. Certainly there is forgiveness for all sins, but how does someone justify killing an unborn child and then go to God for forgiveness? Or a pastor who would council such actions. And while it is not my place to decide who is or is not forgiven, and as scripture states "whosoever will.. may be forgiven", there are still consequences to the "choice".
I will not argue that there are a lot of circumstances by which a woman could become pregnant. But I also know that the primary reasons for terminating pregnancies in the US are convenience and money. It is a desire to not have the consequence of the action. And it comes back to the very first lie, or half truth.
Do you know what it was and where it happened? It was in the garden; "you will not surly die." Today the lie is similar. Go ahead and do whatever you feel like doing. You can terminate a pregnancy, it's no big deal. Yet there is underlying trauma that very few speak of. In the past 20 or so years I have met perhaps a dozen women who have had abortions. In every case, it was for convenience and in every case there is deep regret.
There is no living without consequences.
