Thursday, May 29, 2014
Pro Life
It seems that my church is thinking about making the #1 item of Pro Life be not abortion but rather the environment. Everything goes under the umbrella of environment, global warming or nuclear winter or whatever you want to call it. Whatever the reasons for it, the mess is here. Many will complain about this environment umbrella. Why? You can be against abortion, but you don't have to spend a lot of money or change your lifestyle. Anti-abortionists don't do abortion. Environment is different. To change the way things are going with the environment, lots of money will have to be spent, and we will all have to inconvenience ourselves, that is change, in order to become more earth friendly. In a nutshell, anti-abortion is all about someone else changing. When I have to change and moreover, it will cost me $$$, then I tend whine, complain and ignore. Do I want babies to have the right to life? Yes, but that is more than bringing them to birth. For that I am responsible.
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Environmentalism is a bunch of non-sence. Abortion is a choice. You can choose adoption. That is not selfish. I am thinking of the four day process for the abortion to be
ReplyDeletecomplete. The mother has to deliver her dead fetus. Then her conscience kicks in. As a younger person who was not sexually active I didn't understand these things. I have a much different outlook today.
Beautiful, Fr. Terry! Thank you once again for your thoughtful pieces. Prolife is so much more than antiabortion. So very much more.
ReplyDeleteAt the rate we humans are destroying the Earth, ALL other topics will soon become non-issues! Climate change MUST become the #1 issue or everything else is moot. You are "spot on" (as usual) with your observations.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant, Fr. Terry. Elegant, simple, to the point.
ReplyDeleteTaking our environment for granted is very much a choice. It is millions of choices. Millions that will mean more dead fetuses and will mean children dying younger from the consequences of taking the environment for granted. Our civilization is so complex that I fear some of us cling to anti-abortion stands because it is so simple.