Every year at about this time, the discussion of abortion comes up again in the light of the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. It’s been reported in the news, preached in church, and discussed on the Internet. Some very ugly things are said on both sides, but one particular set of comments set me off this week. It was suggested that there was nothing different between an unborn child and a cancerous growth. I wanted to weep for the person who wrote it.
It should not surprise me that someone would believe that opinion. After all, we treat pregnancy as a disease these days. We have our preventative measures (contraception) and our treatments (abortion). We are saddened when we hear about young women who are “afflicted” by it. Should a woman have more than one child, each successive pregnancy brings comments such as “You know that they have ways of stopping that” or “You know what causes that, don’t you?” as though each life brought into the world is something to be regretted rather than celebrated.
We have been deceived, and in a relatively short time (historically). Children went from being a blessing to a burden. Pregnancy went from being to a joyful event to an avoidable one. We were told that marriages would be better, that sex would be more enjoyable, that women would be freer. But our divorces are higher, sex has been exploited, and many women are chained to a daily pill that slowly destroys their sex drive and their ability to have children in the future. Pharmaceutical companies love it. We spend billions of dollars each year keeping children out of our lives.
Our mindset needs to change. The culture of death (or worse, anti-life) is so insidious that most people do not realize just how much they have tangled themselves in it. We simply need to realize this one thing to turn our course back around: pregnancy is not a disease.
It should not surprise me that someone would believe that opinion. After all, we treat pregnancy as a disease these days. We have our preventative measures (contraception) and our treatments (abortion). We are saddened when we hear about young women who are “afflicted” by it. Should a woman have more than one child, each successive pregnancy brings comments such as “You know that they have ways of stopping that” or “You know what causes that, don’t you?” as though each life brought into the world is something to be regretted rather than celebrated.
We have been deceived, and in a relatively short time (historically). Children went from being a blessing to a burden. Pregnancy went from being to a joyful event to an avoidable one. We were told that marriages would be better, that sex would be more enjoyable, that women would be freer. But our divorces are higher, sex has been exploited, and many women are chained to a daily pill that slowly destroys their sex drive and their ability to have children in the future. Pharmaceutical companies love it. We spend billions of dollars each year keeping children out of our lives.
Our mindset needs to change. The culture of death (or worse, anti-life) is so insidious that most people do not realize just how much they have tangled themselves in it. We simply need to realize this one thing to turn our course back around: pregnancy is not a disease.
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