Always Learning: I Am Pro-Choice

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

I Am Pro-Choice

Abortion always causes heated debates, because both sides feel so passionate about what they believe in. I have decided I am pro-choice. You have freedom of choice if you choose to have sex outside of marriage or if you choose to wait until you are married. When you choose to have sex outside of marriage and a human being is being created because of that choice, I feel you should have no choice to destroy that human being.

Your freedom of choice comes only when and if you want to have sex. The human being growing inside your body as a result of that choice is another human being. It is not your own body.

To bear a child and even put it up for adoption is a wonderful thing. Many, many couples would want to adopt the baby. If you choose to abort, most women suffer years of pain and guilt knowing full well that they allowed their baby to be killed. Abortions have even been linked to increased rates of breast cancer.

Yes, God is a loving and forgiving God. If you have had an abortion, He will forgive you, but that won't stop me from encouraging women who are pregnant now to have that precious baby. You will not be sorry. God allowed that baby to be conceived and is being created inside your womb.

My main encouragement to young women is to choose right now to wait to have sex until marriage. Your virginity is a wonderful gift to give to your future husband someday. You aren't an animal and you have the self-control to wait despite what society wants you to believe. You can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens you!

Most young people want to be given boundaries ~

They feel loved with boundaries.

They want to be told they can live within those boundaries and they are for their protection.

They want to know they can say "No" and wait until marriage when a man will love them enough to make a commitment to them before they give them their bodies.

They need to be told they have value and are loved by an Almighty God who loves them dearly.

They need to hear the freedom the Gospel provides.

So go and tell them! Tell them not to listen to the destructive lies that society is telling them. God is our Creator and His ways are best.

For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you

when I was made in the secret place.

When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

your eyes saw my unformed body.

All the days ordained for me were written in your book

before one of them came to be.

Psalm 139:13-16

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*megan_elzey* · 684 weeks ago

As always, I think you are spot on. I applaud you for having the guts to bring issues like this onto the table.

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Michelle · 684 weeks ago

I totally agree. I am pro-choice too. You can CHOOSE whether or not you have sex. If you aren't ready to handle any and all of the consequences that come from having sex then I believe that you aren't ready to be having sex in the first place.

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FABBY · 684 weeks ago

I agree with you of course and I celebrate you been sooo brave, this days not many are. God bless you.
FABBY

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Amy · 684 weeks ago

It's not true that many, many couples would want to adopt the baby. That's only true if you are white. I know this from experience.

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Kynsie · 684 weeks ago

What about those who were raped or molested?
Not everyone has a choice.

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simplystriving 31p · 684 weeks ago

yes. brilliant way to look at it.

I love Ronald Reagan's quote: "I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born."

Stopping by via Thought Provoking Thursday!

All for Him,
Nikki

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Tania Rees · 684 weeks ago

Great post Lori!..i got pregnant at 16!! (i'm 38 this year, i'm married 2nd time round and have 4 children). My mother gave me the 'choice' to abort and i remember sitting at the doctors surgery, discussing my options!..i did not go ahead with it, thank the Lord!!..Beth is 21 this year and she's brought me years of love, laughter, pain, heartache and everything else that comes with raising a child, but I could never imagine my life without her..You are spot on, Abortion is NOT an option....pre-marital sex IS..!!!

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Danielle · 684 weeks ago

EVERY pro-lifer should be adopting all these unwanted children. I'm sick of the lip service, ADOPT if you are pro-life!

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Brit · 684 weeks ago

I agree that more should adopt in the church, but not everyone is called to adopt. I read a statistic tha if 1 family in every 5 churches adopted a child in America there would be no more foster kids. BUT you can treasure life without adopting.

My husband and I are VERY pro-life, so much so that we do not believe in birth control and use natural family planning. We let God decide the number of children we'll have, and we pray everyday (among other things) that God will lead both my husband and I to know when we should stop preventing to welcome another life. He did that with our son, and now with our second son we are expecting in July.

We did adopt our daugther because of this strong conviction of being open to life. We were not looking to adopt at the time (we always thought we would in the future) but she came to us. She was born to my first cousin and both the birth father/mother are addicted to drugs and admitted to abuse and neglect of sweet Lexie. We were able to bring her home when she was 15 months old, just two month younger than our son.

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Mindi · 684 weeks ago

I couldn't agree more. We adopted our Bethany at birth. When people say what a great thing we did I feel funny because we really wanted her, wanted another child! What we did was not 'just for her' but for us as well. I will always be grateful to her biological people for not aborting her and to God for her creation. I agree with Brit, we practice the same type of family planning because of our convictions in the Lord. We have one 'biological' child and one adopted and for anyone who has ever wondered if there's a difference there is not. We love them equally and see no difference in them. We wanted (want) them both very much. And, for the commenter who said only white people want to adopt babies (I think that was her point) I don't know about that but our Bethany is hispanic and white and we could care less. If they handed me a purple baby that day in the delivery room I wouldn't have cared. Love knows no color. For anyone who is deaing with a crisis pregnancy reading this please, do not abort but consider adoption. There are so many couples who would love a baby. There are so many organizations who will help you through the process, the birth and any expenses. Just chose life.

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Joluise · 684 weeks ago

57% of abortions in the US in 2007 were by women aged 20 to 29 and of all abortions, 87% were by unmarried women and 61% were less than 9 weeks. Rates are declining, this is promising - down from 27.4 per 1000 to 19.5 per 1000. These women need your support and if they are encouraged to keep their babies, they will need long term help - emotionally and financially. Is the USA willing to pay the welfare required to support these children in adulthood.

Source: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/table...

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Lori Alexander 122p · 684 weeks ago

Planned Parenthood performed 300,000 abortions last year and 1,000 adoptions. This number should be completely switched around! We need to encourage these women to put their babies up for adoption so these babies can be raised in a two parent family, not supported by the government. The list for parents wanting to adopt is VERY long.

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Fran · 684 weeks ago

I think women should choose life, that we as Christians should embrace pregnant unwed mothers instead of shunning them, we should teach young people the importance of waiting to have sex until marriage, and we should all do more to support adoptions and prevention. If we reduced the number of people having sex before marriage and reduced the societal shame and shunning that went along with getting pregnant while unmarried, abortions would decrease. This is where the efforts should be placed. While I am all for supporting judicial and legislative actions to limit abortion, in reality we will get a lot further dealing with it on a communal, personal level. Even if abortion is never made illegal again (and lets be honest, that is a real possibility), we can still bring the number of abortions down to very small numbers and exceptional cases through the changing of our attitudes towards young women who find themselves in trouble. And I know many will disagree with me, but I do think it is much more powerful for a woman to know she has the freedom to choose abortion and still choose life than for a woman to feel the government is backing her into a corner. Abortions should be very, very rare, but I do believe energies are better spent changing societal attitudes toward pregnant women and helping them make the right choice than spending all our energy on trying to take away choice completely through legal measures, especially since a complete legal ban on abortion will probably never happen.

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Jenn · 684 weeks ago

I love reading your blog, I am challenged every time I visit. I am pro-choice now, but was not always. I had an abortion when I was in high school. I regret it. I was manipulated, brainwashed, and made the choice to please other people. I did not know the Lord then, but now I do. When the Lord leads me to a woman contemplating her pregnancy, I would do anything to encourage her to keep her baby. I've openly shared my abortion story on my blog, http://sweeterthanhoneyhs.blogspot.com/2011/12/lu... to encourage others who have had an abortion and share God's forgiveness.

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Lindy · 684 weeks ago

Nobody wants to have an abortion. I know that a lot of commenters use the logic that if you don't want a baby before marriage or at all don't have sex. But we have to understand that there are people who have not found Christ or who unfortunately don't want to find Christ and I think if there were easier access and understanding about birth control than we would see a significant drop in the number of abortions.

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Hanna · 684 weeks ago

I respect your point of view but unfortunatly i dont agree with it.
My mothers friend had an abortion, both her and her husband used protection because she was told she wouldnt survive another pregnancy and neither would the child.
Im sure you would see this as an exception to the rule but you cant have it both ways, was she to allow the pregnany to continue and have them both die at the end?

I personally dont think i could go through with one, but i think that women should have the right to choose.

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Jasanna · 684 weeks ago

I listened to a radio broadcast from focus on the family yesterday about sex. Just about how it's a lot of times in the christian community like "don't do it , just don't do it." How it should be more of a "put off this and put on that" sort of mentality instead. Put off sex "for now" and put on learning to be a good wife and the sex later will be so worth it. :) It's so true! I also recently saw a picture of a 10 week old baby in someone's palm. It was ridiculous to see how developed it was and it makes my heart so sad to know that people choose to abort a child, and choose not to see that it is killing a human. Simply self-preservation. I wish more would choose to put up for adoption if they couldn't take care of the child.
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Liz · 684 weeks ago

Lori, you said in your post that women should wait until they are married to have sex, and their virginity is a great gift to their husbands. I'm just wondering, do you encourage men to remain virgins until they are married also? I've been reading through your blog, and many times you mention that men have more of a sex drive, so us females should want to please our them (once we are married). Both men and women have a desire for sex even before they are married. You encourage women to wait, but do you encourage men to wait also? Just wondering. Thanks!

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Mary @ Redo 101 · 683 weeks ago

I thank God every day that two birth mothers in Romania chose life - my beloved 15-y-o daughter and 12-y-o son were God's gift to my husband and me, through the wombs of these two women. Hugs ~ Mary

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