My view on abortion

This post is inspired by this other post on a pro-choice site:
Honestly, the thing that kills me about the anti-choice

I’d like to start by saying, I totally get everything that this person is saying on that site. I despise self-righteous behavior in any way, shape, and form. I also have no desire to stigmatize any woman who finds themselves pregnant out of wedlock or who have had an abortion. No, folks, I see abortion as for most part an act of desperation.

I, too, would like to live in a world where rape is so unthinkable that nobody ever has to fear it ever happening to them. I’d like to live in a world where employers care and respect their workers enough that they would make sure that their workers needs are taken care of before they take their dessert. Way before — how about putting their worker’s need above their own. Employees, on the other hand, should feel the same about their boss. If this sort of mutual respect and care for one another was lived — then nobody would be living without an adequate wage that leave needs unmet. The aim of education would be to make each successive generation more brilliant than the one before. The aim of all parents would be for their child to understand love, joy, and peace in ways that surpasses their own understanding.

For the record, I have absolutely nothing against medically necessary abortions. Ditto for those that you know will be stillborn. I suppose where we might part company is I also want to live in a world where everybody loves all humans no matter if it is a single cell or a mentally defunct elderly person. Where woman are no longer pressured by their boyfriend, husband, parents, friends, any family members immediate or extended, or even society at large that they ought to have an abortion because they cannot afford or raise a child. If, indeed, they cannot provide a good life for the child, let the village be quick to pitch in out of love to help and make sure that child has a good, fulfilling life. I believe that if woman never feels desperate over the prospect of having a child, then she wouldn’t even want an abortion because she would feel empowered to actually choose life. Even if the pregnancy is unplanned, and especially if she truly loved all human beings no matter how small.

If ever I made anybody feel judged, looked down upon, or stigmatized because of their choices in this matter (or pretty much ANY matter), I’m sorry. Sincerely. Now, I won’t stop standing up for the innocent human beings who cannot speak for themselves because I don’t believe in taking an innocent human life. However, I have no desire to claim that I’m better than anybody else, or that if I were in their shoe I would have done any differently. The truth is I don’t know, and I cannot know what I would have done if I were in anybody else’s shoes.

What I can endeavor to do is that in every way possible, learn to love others more day after day. Even those who might hate me. And inspire others to do the same. The kind of love that sacrifices, and lays down its life for another. Maybe we disagree on the need to include the unborn in such a love, but I suspect that if you can join me in that love for all human beings that are born — the world would be a bit brighter than it was yesterday. Yes, even amidst disagreements we can find a better solution.

Thanks for reading,

-Tim
P.S. I know there are many wonderful, caring people on the pro-choice side — and I’m by no means whatsoever saying that I understand love and caring for people better than anybody else does.

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