More Americans Are Pro-Life

Posted on June 1, 2009 
Filed Under Focus on the Family Broadcast, Life, Social Concern

Ready for some good news about the culture war? Here’s an encouraging conversation about recent surveys which show that a majority of Americans consider themselves “pro-life.”

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2 Responses to “More Americans Are Pro-Life”

  1. Fred on June 2nd, 2009 11:14 am

    A recent event off the east cost of Florida where I live saw a boat from Haiti capsize and nine people died. What was interesting to me was the media found out a day or two later that one of those who died was pregnant. They then revived their death list to ten. With all the talk of the fetus not being a being until birth I found their response very interesting.

  2. Robert on June 8th, 2009 10:05 am

    In this two part conversation, one of the priests — I didn’t catch his name, said that there was one difficult question in the same-sex marriage debate: “How will allowing gays and lesbians to marry affect my marriage?” Even many Christians, the priest said, do not have an answer to that question. I was pleased to hear the priest make that point, because I, myself, don’t have an answer to the question, and it is difficult for me to get concerned about same-sex marriage.

    Abortion is a more difficult issue for me. The priest suggested that there is no similarly difficult question with respect to abortion, but I think there is, and I’ll begin with an example:

    A couple of years ago, one of my students and his wife were expecting a baby. Genetic tests identified one of those chromosome 21 problems, not Down syndrome, but, I think, Edwards syndrome, where the survival rates are very, very low. The parents decided to have the baby and my student dropped out of school for a semester to be with the family. The child was born, the parents gave him every bit of love that they had, and he died after about 90 days.

    I admire their decision to have the baby, and try not to think about how much he had to suffer during his short life. Edwards syndrome is not a pleasant condition.

    So, the difficult question in the abortion debate is this one: “If the decision whether to have the child was not for the parents to make, who should make it?”

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