Refined thoughts on abortion.

Bringing life into the world is meant to be a thing of dignity. In light of this, the crux of my anti-abortion argument becomes a moral one. Advocates of abortion often use it as a means to perpetuate immoral lifestyles (whether they admit it or not). After all, why would a woman have responsible sex when all she has to do is terminate her pregnancy any time she gets pregnant? Why would a man consider sex an honorable thing if he never has to wrestle with the natural consequence of bearing children?

If you want bad behavior just subsidize it. We can deduce that an abortion subsidy (or payment) is immoral simply because of the result it brings about (more abortions and less responsibility). How can abortion ever be naturally good if the result of it is more immoral behavior and an unwillingness to accept the consequences of one's own actions?

If we were truly concerned about being dignified human beings we would accept the results of both the actions we choose and those we do not. For instance, if a woman is raped she can make the decision not to punish the baby resulting from her rape by aborting it. It is not the baby's fault, after all. It is a tough decision, to be sure, but it gives great value not only to the life of the unborn but to the giver of that life (the mother).

I say this to reveal in depth the motivation for the beliefs I hold. I belong to a way of life that is advocated by an innocent man who was willingly murdered in order to free me from the guilt of my own dishonor. He chose to give me dignity through His sacrifice though I did not deserve it. In this, His love towards me was even more amazing than the mother's love for a baby she chose to carry to term in spite of being raped. In my example, the baby did nothing wrong yet was saved. According to the innocent man, I was His murderer and yet He bestowed upon me (a guilty man) the same gift of life the mother bestowed upon her unborn child (an innocent). Thus, my argument is centered not necessarily in outlawing abortion, but specifically in revealing to the heart of man a dignifying love that is offered to all. That love is given through Jesus, the Son of God. His goodness is the true motivation for righteous living and in such living there is no need for abortion.