John Lennox, " Well being is one if the major idols of our time."
I admit to staring at some women of younger generations in dismay when I
hear them talk about not wanting to bear children because of the
difficulties of pregnancy. If they do bear a child, these women demand
drugs to block their pain during childbirth and keep in remembrance
every agony, if they suffer any. I bore 5 children naturally with no drugs and gave no
thought to the discomforts of pregnancy beyond the moment. I did not
focus on the pain, but looked with joy upon the new life God gave me, forgetting all that came before.
In the 60's when the pill came available, some devout Christians warned
that the pill would have terrible unintended consequences. And they've
been proven correct. The pill shifted sex from an enjoyable activity
which must be protected in marriage and entered into with the full
knowledge that it would most likely result in a child to an an enjoyable
activity that is a right above and beyond the responsibilities of the
life of the child that might be conceived and the sacredness of
marriage.
Many of today's people overlook, ignore or pretend
that the life a child that might be conceived due to engaging in sexual
activity, is worthless compared to their personal well-being, their
pleasure, their finances, their convenience. They insist that a woman
must not be forced to become the brooding container for another life.
But wait, who did the forcing? Wasn't the life that was invited forced
to be conceived? Who came first, the mother or the fetus?
The
author of this piece posted below pretends or ignores the reality that
children are invited into this life via sex and places an individual
woman's well-being as the prime value above all others. One's own
well-being is not a god worthy of such adoration or worship, no god that
demands child sacrifice is worth anything except abhorrence and
disdain.
Abortion is not Murder
What would my life have consisted of it I had put, as my prime value, my well-being? I will not go into details unless I'm specifically asked, but I was told to abort more than one of my children. According to the world, I would have been better off if I had. I was an unwed mother, at one point, at another moment in time I was an abused wife with no prospects for any improvement in my future. But all one has to do is look at my life to see that the world is wrong! The world never factors in God. It never factors in Love. Certainly none of my children would agree that any of them should have been aborted! But it's not just me who's better off--the world is better off--each one of my children is a blessing to many, many others.
I am grateful to have grown up in an era when women knew up front that fooling around with a guy would most likely result in pregnancy no matter what precautions one took, that carrying a child was uncomfortable, that giving birth might be painful and it would require a lot of work, not just to bear them, but to raise them and I didn't have this notion that my well-being figured into the short term picture even one iota. I am grateful to be the mother of six gifts to the world! Momentary well-being cannot match the wonder and joy God set before me when He gifted first me and then the world with these children!
