You’re ProLife
So, You think you’re ProLife…
I have spent the past few days responding to frequently asked questions about life issues, mostly about abortion, but I also put a page together about euthanasia too.
Having a written stand is good and presenting your self in social media and even articulating your position on issues is important.
The idea of why one would call themselves ProLife is something I’ve been thinking about because, like so many other things today, being ProLife is not easy.
If you watch TV or movies, you have seriously limited choices when it comes to abstaining from viewing violence and murder. Do you pay to engage? When you watch, are you grieved, offended…turn away? Is it a necessary component of a story with great moral value? Will it make you a better person despite the taking of lives?
I know, it’s not usually real. Studies suggest that children watch some crazy huge number of violent scenes before adulthood. Perhaps, you and I are desensitized by now.
No one with any legitimate income can avoid paying for abortion anymore by our tax dollars. The federal government grants millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood and many state’s medicaid programs include reproductive healthcare, which is often a pseudonym for abortion. Abortion is not healthcare. Healthcare provides healing and care not the destruction of a human being.
There is not much we can do about that besides pay the least amount of taxes required. But we can off set that by giving money to those directly opposing abortion. That could mean a pregnancy center that provides resources to women in crisis situations or a group of sidewalk counselors that give their time and resources right at the gates or it could mean groups that work with legislators to change law that would protect women and children from the abortionists or it could mean groups that provide education to young people and the public, it could also mean activist groups that protest with graphic signs that depict exactly what abortion really is and what it really does to human beings.
What about the elderly, the infirm and disabled? The simple act of opening a door or moving out of the way for a wheelchair, not parking in the handicapped spot, acknowledging a desperately poor homeless person or helping a widow put her groceries into her car are great acts of kindness that display your respect for life.
To bring it a little closer, what about family members? We often overlook those that are close to us. Are you kind and thoughtful to your annoying family members? Can you think of ways to show them how much you respect their unique contribution to our world? Coworkers are people who see how we behave and what we say too. Are you aware of your manners, your speech, when someone is out of line or your attitudes toward those with whom you don’t agree?
Speaking out when you see injustice is important, but not if you’re just shaking your fist and saying someone ought to do something, if you could be that someone.
Being ProLife isn’t about being antiabortion, it is about respecting and promoting the best life for all people.