Thursday, January 31, 2013

Why ProLife has to be Pro Women

The ProLife movement has got to meet head on the claim that we are not Pro Woman and educate the the non-pro woman elements in our ranks.  To be ProLife, we have to support women.  There has never been a woman who skipped up to an abortion clinic saying "Yeah! I get to have an abortion".  It goes against our nature.  The forces in the past that denigrated a woman who had an unwanted pregnancy and made her a permanent second class citizen for having a baby out of wedlock, were anti woman and not ProLife.  ProLife should, and does in many cases, support these women now.  Many pro life group work to help them bear the burden of bringing the child into the world and either give the child up or get started as a new parent.  Abortion supports the idea that the mistaken pregnancy is so wrong and so shameful that the woman's child has to be sacrificed.  How does that empower a woman?  It says you did something so wrong you now have to go against your very nature.  We are designed to want to protect our offspring.  Even those who reject God and the idea he made us must agree that we by our nature want to protect our children.  To make a woman believe that an abortion is something that won't effect her, is wrong.  It goes against how we are.  ProLife understands and wants to help and support these women.

 Abortion, like suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem, and just as unfortunate.  We need to work within our culture to promote the idea of the woman who decides to give her child life ia a hero.  If she doesn't want to raise the child, we should congratulate, support, and thank her for giving her child up for adoption.  We need to make that choice attractive, and promote that idea in our culture.   If churches would create a fund to support these women while they are pregnant and do what they to make their lives better after they give the child up that might help.  At the very least we can promote this in the media.

Until we take charge of this issue of being pro woman, the otherside will continue to promote the idea that this is still the 1950s and women have no control over their lives and so have to hide an unwanted pregnancy through abortion.  Maybe the truth is that the otherside finds the idea that women are human and flawed and make mistakes so appalling that they are ashamed of the woman and think she should hide the evidence.  Women are human and there will be unwanted pregnancies.  We need as a culture to accept this idea and support women to do what is best for them.  Bring their child to term and either keep the child or give it up.  They say we are anti woman because we don't accept abortion.  I say that what we don't accept is the idea that women need to be made to suffer for an unwanted pregnancy.

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