Laurie, I really feel like I know your experience. Sometimes what is threatening the potential mothers life isn't always the potential child. Desperate times can call for desperate measures. I had pretty much already cast aside most forms of Christianity because they all basically told me that my mother and my sister, who lead positive and mostly (hey, free will, I don't know everything they do!)moral lives, but hold the religion of Judiasm and humanistic Judiasm, will burn in hell. I cannot and willnot turn my backs on them. Most who hold the opine that abortion is EVIL, seem to worship something more akin to the old testament books of the bible, though they claim otherwise. They're the ones who've made me stop on the street and walk women, who are obviously being harrassed into a PP clinic, for wahtever reason they're there. They've made me stop on the street and diretly ask them if the photos/signs they're weilding are photos of medical abortions or spontaneous abortions? (Yes, sometimes they have used photos of miscarriages as propoganda.) Yes, I've told them my story....the 4 doctors I've had afterwards have already told me, most likely that pregnancy would have ended in a miscarriage, considering how my other 2 pregnancies were. My body was telling me, NO. When I was there...scared, barely GOT a job, throing up everywhere....My mom helped me. She didn't hold my hand, but she made the appt, drove me there and picked me up. She also let me convuluse with her. We've talked about it last year too. She doesn't regret it either.
Anyone who's pro-life or anti abortion....if you haven't, please see Cider House Rules.
If you don't like our abortion laws, please think long and hard about the alternative. It's illegal here. Anyone with money can go to another country and get one. Those without means are reduced to a choice of an overpriced butcher or possibly dangerous herbs, a sharp self inflicted object or something we've never pondered. Women being admitted to emergency rooms and/or dying from infection, because you want the sin wiped out. Look to Prohibition. Alcohol was illegal, but people still drank. Most drugs in this country are illegal, yet people still use them. Please don't push for our daughters and grandaughters to sterilze, poison, kill themselves or even injure themselves because they didn't have the money to fly to another country. You don't have to like it, but please, turn the other cheek, love the sinner and hate the sin. Judge not, lest ye be judged thine self.
Weird, I wanted to accept Christ's love, but most of what was offered me was so loaded with judgement and lines in the sand, I couldn't do it. I felt so at peace and what I hope was the holy spririt was moving all the little hairs on my neck, but I could never accet condemming those of another faith or belief system or choices anyone made. To me it contradicted everything I felt. The Lord is where you admit your downfalls, your mistakes, humble yourself and bask in his glory.Never ever are you better than the butcher, the fireman, the babysitter, the fast food worker. What you should do is lead by example. Be the best person YOU can be. Show them the way by how you are, not by telling them how to be, what to do, what to think, what to believe. Live as a Christian, and you won't need to talk like one.
Wow, I'm wordy.
An embryo is far from being complete.
