Friday, January 9, 2009

Abortion issues

Below is what I sent to Obama and Biden and other goverment officials. It's an effort to work within the framework of what I think they can hear and possibly work with. Please consider sending some version of the note below or one of your own. Please communicate with our goverment what you believe and desire on important issues.
Here is a general goverment service site to locate your elected officials: http://www.usa.gov/Contact.shtml
And the site to contact Obama-Biden:
http://change.gov/page/content/contact/

Dear Sirs,
As you take part in making new choices concerning abortion and the freedom of choice for women please also allow for the freedom of conscience for all and especially medical workers. When a society demands that doctors must perform abortions in order to be doctors it eliminates many of the most conscientious people from the medical arena. If our government demands that medical clinics receiving US aid must provide abortion than our government demands other cultures and beliefs to change. The separation of church and state was meant to protect people from being forced by the government to change their personal religious beliefs, yet increasingly the pro-abortion right movement is demanding that all those involved in medical practice see things the way they see them increasingly using the government to make their morality the ruling morality. The governmental legal rights of a woman to choose abortion should not be used to force all others to take part in abortion.
I think abortion is generally an abhorrent sickness, part of a greater sickness in our country that says that our individual comfort and preferences should take preference over other people's rights of life.
In the Bible part of God's judgment against people was to bring them to the point where women would eat their own children to stay alive. We are a people under judgment, whose government provides for the eating (aborting) of one’s own children for the sake of ease of living. We tend to use others for our own comfort. Most people these days see all relationships as being primarily economic - what are they getting from the other guy.
God wants us looking to see how we might be a blessing to those around us, particularly to those in need. In the Old Testament God’s most severe words of judgment were issued to those who practiced child sacrifice, abused the innocent to get what they wanted, and ignored the weak and needy of society.
If American tax dollars are put to use for abortion on demand I hope and pray that there will be an equal or greater amount spent on caring for pregnant women in need and unwanted infants. If American tax dollars are spent on abortion, which is still considered murder by a large percentage of the American people, than it would at least be appropriate to present an option for taxpayers to stipulate where they would want a portion of their taxes to go, to providing for abortion on demand or for saving unwanted babies.
Thank you for your careful consideration of these matters. May God give you the wisdom of Solomon as you make choices for the sake of our country and the world.
Sincerely,
Mark McClure

3 comments:

  1. My views on abortion are fundamentally entwined with my views on life in general. My views are not the result of any one religion or belief system, but rather a distillation of information over the time of my life. In the end, it rather resembles Animism.

    I believe all living things have a spirit or essence. From the time I was a child I never felt that humans had any special position or niche on Earth: I always felt we were just living creatures like other living creatures. We have capabilities other animals do not have, but they also have capabilities we do not possess.

    As a result of this view, I do not have the abhorrance of abortion that some do, though I think it is sad. Personally, I would rather see a fetus aborted than to be raised in an abusive and / or unloving environment. I do believe adoption of healthy infants is far preferable.

    As a side note, I would love to see the human race commit to the policy of one couple, one child in the future. This would ultimately greatly reduce the human population and allow our fellow travelers on this planet a chance at life as well.

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  2. I realized I never addressed the main point of the original blog; namely, that it is immoral to require medical personnel to perform an operation that violates their fundamental ethical and / or religious convictions.

    I agree.

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  3. There are laws that have been enacted around this issue but a debate remains around it. A quick internet search pulled up multiple links on this issue. A impartial one was from Wall St Journal: http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/08/22/feds-move-to-protect-health-workers-who-oppose-abortion

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