{"id":128390,"date":"2016-10-15T09:17:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T13:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=128390"},"modified":"2016-10-14T17:39:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T21:39:30","slug":"pro-abortion-minister-misses-irony-in-call-to-embrace-humanity-of-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-minister-misses-irony-in-call-to-embrace-humanity-of-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion minister misses irony in call to ’embrace humanity’ of others"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The idea that faith and reason are mutually exclusive is a common misconception<\/a> that abortion advocates have a vested interest in promoting, in the hopes of disqualifying the pro-life case on church-vs.-state grounds<\/a>. It\u2019s a massive fallacy (as well as beside the point, since secular science vindicates pro-lifers<\/a> anyway), but there may be another reason why abortion advocates\u00a0are so certain of it: because reason is nowhere to be found<\/a> in the preaching<\/a> of pro-aborts\u2019 own<\/a> \u201creligious\u201d leaders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the Daily Beast, pro-abortion activist and \u201cBaptist minister\u201d Susan Chorley writes<\/a> that twelve years ago, she had an abortion \u201cwith help from my faith.\u201d What follows is so painfully unmoored from anything resembling reason that, if I thought it depicted actual religion, I\u2019d want religion kept as far away from politics as possible too. Of course, the truth is that Chorley\u2019s problems stem from the fact that she isn\u2019t following her faith, but merely using her faith as window dressing for the ideology she\u2019s swapped it out for.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t want to bring a baby into the world that would feel it was a burden\u2014and I prayed to God to help me make the best decision I could in a situation that seemed impossible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow. What to even do with that? Perhaps a good place to start would be by pointing out that the Bible\u2014kind of an important book in Chorley\u2019s line of work\u2014places particular emphasis<\/a> on children as a blessing, calling on the faithful to see children as \u201ca heritage from the Lord\u201d a \u201creward from him,\u201d and the \u201cgreatest in the kingdom of heaven,\u201d with Jesus declaring that \u201cwhoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.\u201d<\/p>\n

So maybe, just maybe<\/em>, a more compassionate and prayerful way to ensure your child didn\u2019t \u201cfeel it was a burden\u201d would have been to show him or her such love and compassion that he or she would grow up knowing he or she was the blessing the Bible speaks of\u2026rather than preemptively deciding your child didn’t deserve a chance<\/a> by taking away the life God gave him or her for a reason<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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