I fully intend to never make this a forum for political debate. However there are a few thoughts that I have been considering, as to why I vote without question for who I get to vote for this upcoming election.
I've been pondering a lot lately, the idea of "pro-choice" vs. "pro-life". My body looks a lot like this one, and as I ponder that fact, it brings me to both gratitude and agency.
Gratitude – I am beyond thankful for my ability to easily and quickly be able to perpetuate life. It was never a struggle for me, although I usually didn't enjoy the uncomfortable nature of being pregnant. I am very petite, so when I am "great with child" I really look like a bus. There is no where for the baby to go but OUT, so it looks like I have a full size basketball under my shirt at about, oh, 7 months along. I'm jealous of the taller women, who don't become a walking projectile as fast as I do. And I'm not that proud of sharing my stretched, saggy belly with others, but I also don't worry about it too much. In heaven I trust all the stretches will be worked out. Currently it reminds me of my ridiculously awesome children.
Agency – this is something so powerful that the whole hosts of heaven fought over it. Children of God found it so important that they took up sides, and some lost their ability to have life. It is why we are here – those of us who supported agency got the chance to use it. I am staunchly pro-agency, and I cannot stand it when someone condescendingly tells me to do something I don't want to do.
I am also staunchly in favor of letting the living live, or the conceived live, no matter the cause of their conception.
Life is so incredibly valuable. The other day I read a very well done article which lays out many details of what is considered and what isn't, in terms of being pro-choice and pro-life. The author writes in some gory detail many facets of abortion that most of us would rather not hear, and that many blindly ignore. These are some of the details that affect my vote this upcoming election.
I don't pretend to go and tell people what they should do to their bodies. I don't go telling strangers not to have sex when they're not married. I don't tell people to not have babies when they have no ability or comprehension of what it takes to raise them. I believe life is precious, and regardless of the source of the life, I believe it should have a chance to live, whether it be by rape, incest, or happily conceived in marriage. Does that mean I think it is easy? Is life easy for anyone???
When I vote, I will be voting for someone who supports any and all babies' rights to life. In the United States, one of our candidates believes in letting the local states decide on the issue, although he is personally in support of life. The other candidate is pro-abortion, and has voted in the past to support partial birth abortion, which is one of the most grotesque, evil, and horrific practices of our day. I grieve for the state of the soul of the woman who allows this to be done to her child, and the doctors who are so hardened that they can perform it. If most citizens were aware of what actually transpires in an abortion, I feel their stance on the issue would likely be seriously reconsidered. Certainly I have never heard a woman brag about how proud she was that she killed the life within her. And a woman who does this to a child outside the body is hauled off to jail. The dichotomy makes no sense.
God has already decided what He wants us to do with life. Jeremiah 1:5:
I hope and pray that politics aside, people will consider life when they vote, no matter who they're choosing between, no matter what country or what position they're voting for.
That's all I have to say about that.
What do you think? Has this post impacted you in any way? Please share your thoughts, if so.
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Gratitude – I am beyond thankful for my ability to easily and quickly be able to perpetuate life. It was never a struggle for me, although I usually didn't enjoy the uncomfortable nature of being pregnant. I am very petite, so when I am "great with child" I really look like a bus. There is no where for the baby to go but OUT, so it looks like I have a full size basketball under my shirt at about, oh, 7 months along. I'm jealous of the taller women, who don't become a walking projectile as fast as I do. And I'm not that proud of sharing my stretched, saggy belly with others, but I also don't worry about it too much. In heaven I trust all the stretches will be worked out. Currently it reminds me of my ridiculously awesome children.
Agency – this is something so powerful that the whole hosts of heaven fought over it. Children of God found it so important that they took up sides, and some lost their ability to have life. It is why we are here – those of us who supported agency got the chance to use it. I am staunchly pro-agency, and I cannot stand it when someone condescendingly tells me to do something I don't want to do.
I am also staunchly in favor of letting the living live, or the conceived live, no matter the cause of their conception.
Life is so incredibly valuable. The other day I read a very well done article which lays out many details of what is considered and what isn't, in terms of being pro-choice and pro-life. The author writes in some gory detail many facets of abortion that most of us would rather not hear, and that many blindly ignore. These are some of the details that affect my vote this upcoming election.
I don't pretend to go and tell people what they should do to their bodies. I don't go telling strangers not to have sex when they're not married. I don't tell people to not have babies when they have no ability or comprehension of what it takes to raise them. I believe life is precious, and regardless of the source of the life, I believe it should have a chance to live, whether it be by rape, incest, or happily conceived in marriage. Does that mean I think it is easy? Is life easy for anyone???
When I vote, I will be voting for someone who supports any and all babies' rights to life. In the United States, one of our candidates believes in letting the local states decide on the issue, although he is personally in support of life. The other candidate is pro-abortion, and has voted in the past to support partial birth abortion, which is one of the most grotesque, evil, and horrific practices of our day. I grieve for the state of the soul of the woman who allows this to be done to her child, and the doctors who are so hardened that they can perform it. If most citizens were aware of what actually transpires in an abortion, I feel their stance on the issue would likely be seriously reconsidered. Certainly I have never heard a woman brag about how proud she was that she killed the life within her. And a woman who does this to a child outside the body is hauled off to jail. The dichotomy makes no sense.
God has already decided what He wants us to do with life. Jeremiah 1:5:
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.We are to value it, above all the riches of the universe, no matter how it was conceived. We had life before conception, and God knows us personally. Does he not have a plan for us, who our parents will be, and when we come here, and why?
I hope and pray that politics aside, people will consider life when they vote, no matter who they're choosing between, no matter what country or what position they're voting for.
That's all I have to say about that.
What do you think? Has this post impacted you in any way? Please share your thoughts, if so.
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