{"id":40482,"date":"2013-09-12T01:25:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T05:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=40482"},"modified":"2013-09-12T11:22:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T15:22:36","slug":"abortion-isnt-acceptable-way-send-babies-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-isnt-acceptable-way-send-babies-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"No, abortion isn&#8217;t an acceptable way to send babies to Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-40484\" style=\"margin-left: 15px;\" alt=\"Jesus Facepalm\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Jesus-Facepalm1-300x250.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Jesus-Facepalm1-300x250.png 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Jesus-Facepalm1.png 583w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>On Monday, Jill Stanek <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jillstanek.com\/2013\/09\/pro-life-vid-of-day-isnt-abortion-good-if-babies-go-to-heaven\/\">highlighted<\/a> a video by Melissa Bov\u00e9, who blogs under the handle Chemist Blogger. Ms. Bov\u00e9 finds it hard to \u201cunderstand why Christians feel abortion is so tragic for the unborn,\u201d because if we believe in the existence of Heaven, then why is it a bad thing to send babies straight to an eternity of peaceful, painless bliss with their Creator?<\/p>\n<p>This is a nice try which occasionally pops up in debates with pro-aborts who are trying too hard to be clever, but it works only if you also make multiple unfounded assumptions about additional things Christians do and don\u2019t believe.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>First, it suggests that Christians don\u2019t think our time on Earth is valuable in and of itself (or at least, not valuable enough for it to be a necessary part of God\u2019s plan for us). But that\u2019s obviously not true; if it weren\u2019t, why would we be born at all? What\u2019s the point of having any physical existence? An entire planet and everything that\u2019s ever been on it seems like kind of a waste if it\u2019s just a trivial pit stop to Heaven. As significant as the hereafter is, the experience of a temporal life &#8211; learning, loving, developing a character, forging relationships &#8211; is also enormously valuable to a Christian worldview, and to deprive anyone of it is a grievous injury.<\/p>\n<p>Second, it assumes that our personal welfare is our highest goal, and that we don\u2019t consider ourselves bound to any earthly obligations beyond ourselves. But this is another premise virtually no Christian would accept. Most believe we are called to do good for our fellow human beings, be it by leading them to Christ, offering a helping hand to friends and neighbors, feeding the hungry, or crusading against oppression and discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>Third, it puts Christians in the role of placing their judgment about these matters above God\u2019s. In many cases, we very well may be unable to discern anything but pain and hopelessness and futility in another\u2019s life. But to believe is to recognize the limits to our personal perspectives, to humbly acknowledge that there\u2019s a great deal we will never fully understand, and to have faith that God knows better. Just because we can\u2019t see the possibilities and meanings he can doesn&#8217;t mean they\u2019re not there.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth, there are subsets of Christians who believe different things about salvation, such as predestination or the necessity of baptism, meaning they\u2019re actually not certain that aborted babies go to Heaven. I don\u2019t agree with them, but they\u2019re worth noting for the sake of comprehensiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Fifth, we could actually turn the question on its head and put pro-abortion atheists on the spot: if Heaven isn&#8217;t real, if there\u2019s nothing to our existence beyond this plane, then abortion robs from a child <em>everything he or she is, has ever had, will have, and will be<\/em>. Tease out those ethics for a while and see if you\u2019re comfortable with what you find.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, one would hope \u201cthou shalt not murder\u201d would be enough to understand why Christians can\u2019t write of killing babies in the womb as simply booking an early flight to Heaven. It was written in stone for a reason, and much like with rebuttal three above, it doesn&#8217;t matter what we feel, or want, or would do if we were God. We\u2019re not, so we don\u2019t get the option of doing otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of if it&#8217;s the flippant disobedience of Nancy \u201cCatholic\u201d Pelosi, the unhesitating tyranny of HHS mandate advocates, the sick \u201cprayers\u201d of radical activists, or the half-baked theological musings of ideological bloggers, an undeniable pattern emerges: try as they might, pro-aborts just can\u2019t figure out how this \u201creligion\u201d thing works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Jill Stanek highlighted a video by Melissa Bov\u00e9, who blogs under the handle Chemist Blogger. 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