I Support a Woman’s Right to Choose.
Jesus challenged the crowd’s sinfulness, not the woman’s.
Whatever happened to the First Amendment?
It is supposed to keep church and state separate, is it not? Why then do we constantly try to legalize one person’s morality over another’s?
I am a Christian, and as such, I support life. I am opposed to killing, and I am opposed to abortion: I just think another choice could be made.
But therein lies the rub: IT’S NOT MY CHOICE.
It is the choice of the woman who is pregnant: she has to live — and be judged — with her decision, not me.
Any woman that chooses abortion deals with seriously tough issues PLUS her own thoughts and feelings for the rest of her life — her conscience.
How dare I judge what is right or wrong for another? Would you let ME decide what is right or wrong for YOUR life? Most likely not.
We need to stop trying to force our own beliefs on others. It is an issue none of us can answer for another.
Five hundred years ago, Europeans came here in search of the New World. Many of them sought out freedom from religious persecution. Unfortunately, when they got here, and as colonies developed, they forced their own religious ideas of the Natives, trying to convert them to Christianity. When the Native people refused, they were labeled ‘savages.’ The governments set up in these early colonies broke numerous treaties with the Natives, as they looked at the Natives as ‘inferior.’ The colonists broke treaties and took Native lands, eventually pushing tribes onto reservations. In the name of God, colonists treated Indians with malice and hatred. Five hundred years later, Native people are still treated as less than human by the ‘Pro-Life Party.’
We have seen the religious right do the same in today’s world; from cutting very necessary funding to Planned Parenthood to blowing up abortion clinics.
It is not my place to decide for someone else, nor is it the role of some nutbag who claims Christ but would kill in his holy name.
Jesus was writing in the mud when the woman ‘caught in the act’ was brought before Him for judgment— and they wanted to stone her. But Jesus challenged the crowd’s sinfulness, not the woman’s. All the men with the stones left, and Jesus told the woman to ‘go, and sin no more.’
It is between God and the woman, and no one else.
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© Timothy J. Sabo
