What 'CHOICE' Really Equals: Ignorance

By Daniel Blake
Op/Ed

I recently read an article posted by one of numerous Pro-Abortion blogs on the internet. Within this article was a written apology and "repentance", as the site operator would title the piece, of a former Pro-Life woman.

The woman would speak of her old thoughts and beliefs and then give a detailed account of her own eventual abortion experience. She would go onto generalize all Pro-Life people as ignorant and judgmental beings. She would admit that her prior Pro-Life stance had little to no substance, completely explaining her lack of knowledge of the real issues and beliefs of Pro-Life supporters. At the end the woman would speak of how ashamed she felt for her prior pro-life stance. So this is my response to her admitted ignorance of the entire issue of abortion.

Since the year 1987 810 million, that's 810,000,000 would be citizens have been aborted throughout the entire world. It's shocking I know, and if anything, is the lowest estimate of actual abortions. There is no hiding such a statistic, it's just too LARGE.

Each abortion can be personalized; each woman and clinic would have their own story and account. No doubt one can admit such action is a painful and life changing event. But the individual is ultimately to be held accountable for the action. Because of each and every abortion being so personal, there is a CHOICE. But what is choice and why does it only concern the final step?

For example, I have the choice to study or not to study and based on that choice I will be given a different outcome. Before I ever make the choice to study or not, I already know the consequences of my actions. If I choose to study I can assume to do well on the exam, or if I choose to not study I can assume that I might do worse or fail. I had the choice of what outcome I could get, but once I fulfilled the task and completed the test, no longer would it be my choice to grade or change the results. I pass or fail because of my own decisions and choices. That's it. I can blame no one else.

Such a choice instantly brings the issue of our own personal responsibility. People always talk about the end result, and often wonder how things get to be the way they are. But we must remember that change doesn't occur from nothing, change is driven by something and is the sum of all the factors leading up to it.

Women do have CHOICE, we all do, to take action and then to live with the consequences. A child is not a choice and to treat it as so, is the ultimate act of selfishness and irresponsibility. Walt Whitman said it best in his poem "A Song of the Rolling Earth," "...the teaching is to the teacher and comes back most to him, as the song is to the singer and comes back most to him and as the murder is to the murderer and comes back most to him..." I tell you the abortion is to the abettor and comes back most to him. The only good from the supposed repentance is that the woman realized that she too should not judge, hate, or act violently towards another.

The "people" who wait outside clinics are indeed wrong for their judging and hate filled words, because they go against everything that they supposedly stand for. But not all who wait outside are hypocritical and shouldn't be generalized in a blanket statement. And may I say that of course you and I are not above the people who have had abortions, because they are still human beings. To hate is to destroy any chance of understanding, which will lead to biased and ignorant responses by both sides.

So what can one do to change and help another understand the value of life? Yelling will not work! Signs, protests, bumper stickers, shirts, and commercials will not work. Why are such actions and things ineffective? Just think about it for a second. All such tactics are aimed at and designed to counterattack an opposing opinion, drawing a line if you will. Such an imaginary line creates a schism in which people stand on opposite sides, thus leading to a good vs. bad mentality.

This imaginary line becomes a drain and waste of energy and resources for both sides. People begin to personalize debates and construct ways to put the other in a bad light, no matter if the subject of such a debate goes to the wayside. What we miss are the children, in more ways then one. What we forget is that all life is important and to humiliate, belittle, and dehumanize another is to completely cripple oneself over the issue of conserving life. There can be no double standard.

We as responsible citizens and Christians are to protect and defend the helpless and innocent. The government itself is to have the best interest of its people sustained and never sway from that fact. What we do to our young is a reflection upon ourselves and all of humanity. People wish to talk of reality and use it as an excuse for the way things are, but let me remind you that reality is that of which me make it.

Reality can be distorted, confused, unexplained, and lied about. In reality both reason and emotion co-exist. In society we associate reason with secular beliefs and emotion with religious beliefs. But those who push for secularism should be careful in what they wish for. For secularism is a religion of its own kind. Secularism is anything but neutral and has its own rituals and idealistic jargon attached.

If you don't believe me then look back upon other secular groups throughout history. Don't look to far back though, because the Nazi party was the Secular poster boy of its time and seemed reasonable to be fit to lead a country. Again, reality is what we make of it. "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."

--David Hume

So in conclusion, I ask that all who read this pray for the women and men who have forgotten the dignity and value of life and forgive them, for we should hate the sin and not the sinner. And may you all remember that the meaning to life is to give life meaning.

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