Part One– Review
Part Two– Politics and the Internet
Part Three– The Old Guard of Conservative Christianity
Today we’re going to finish the series by getting into one of the biggest issues for Christian voters: abortion. I completely understand how sensitive this issues is and am welcome to dialoguing through the contact box and over email if comments are too public with this. I will do my very best to be sensitive to the various views on these issues. Please keep your comments uplifting to one another.
Conservative estimates say that 18% of evangelical women have abortions every year. I took my glasses off to read that twice. The information comes from the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform in Lake Forest, California.
Nancy Hird, of Moody Magazine says, “I think there is more pressure for Christians to abort than in secular society. In secular society there is not a lot of shame involved about sleeping with your boyfriend or in having a child out of wedlock.”
Let that sink in. Something is wrong with the picture Nancy presented. There is a strong disconnect. Somehow many Christians have not been able to teach their message in love. We are losing a generation of women because these women do not feel comfortable going to church because their sin is greater in many eyes, because they “killed a baby”. I can’t tell you how much it pains me that we throw arrows from the highest mountain top we have no business being on. And I’m not even saying Pro-Life is wrong, I’m simply saying that its never the stance that is rejected, it is the way the stance is presented. We, as believers, have done a very poor job of presenting our case in love.
Ford says, “Pro-choice women miss that sense of deep conviction when all they hear in the media is that the religious right wants to take away their right to decide what to do with their own bodies. Likewise, pro-life women miss the deep convictions of some pro-choice women about what they see as interference in their personal lives.”
As abortion and politics collide I think we see that partisanship obscures the problems faced by women, fathers who played no role in the choice, and medical workers.
What are some ways that we can bypass politics and still deal with abortion in a Godly way?
