Pro-abortionists say "my body, my choice" or "my body, my right." Since the
fetus is "my body" or the fetus is "living in my body," I have the "right"
to cut it out if I want. In their mind, what grounds that "right"?
To answer this, I'm going to really make some controversial claims that some may not like. First, we know that it is scientifically false to think that the fetus is the "mother's body," if one thinks that. Second, we really don't have the right to do anything
with our body as we please. First, some things can hurt other people,
such as we should not go too fast or there are smoking laws. But even
ourselves, we don't really seem to have the right to commit suicide,
even though some are trying to make that too a "right."
This is my sandbox blog. I created it so I can get my thoughts out fast. Thus, there may be many mistakes. Please forgive me if my thoughts are incomplete, my spelling may need help and my grammar may be poor.
To lay the ground work for my thoughts, I'm going to start off with the
claim that one who is pro-abortion is NOT a Christian. I did not say
"they don't identify as Christian", I said they are not Christian. Also,
I'm saying they are not Christian in the present sense. If they repent
and turn from sin to Jesus, they can be a Christian. I say this for
biblical reasons. Abortion is murder and unrepentant murders don't
inherit the Kingdom of God, Galatians 5:21.
Another essential point, all other god's beside the God of the Bible is a
false god. This includes the gods of Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc. It
also includes the god of self as seen in atheism and agnosticism. These
are all false religions because the worship creation, not the Creator.
Past cultures, and non-secular, non-Christian cultures, the god's are
usually made of wood, stone or metal. Material idols are strange in
secular western culture, but I do think
they are at the core the same. The god's are not material, rather
immaterial, they are our ideas and our views of who we think god is.
Isaiah 44 says, these are made in our image.
Either way, we run into a problem that the Bible points out in Psalm
115:3-8, we become like the object of our worship: Psalms 115:4-8 (KJV)
"4 Their idols [are] silver and gold, the work of men's hands. 5 They
have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: 6
They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: 7
They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk
not: neither speak they through their throat. 8 They that make them are
like unto them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them."
Essentially, instead of our moral compass pointing true north, our moral
compass is always pointing inward. It points to self, to my thoughts,
to my heart, to my ideas. Thus, the idea of "I follow my heart", "I do
what's best for me", "I don't want to be burdened", "I don't want to be
offended", "I don't want my emotions hurt" ... me, me, me.
Thus, people who have a constant mantra of "my body, my right" are
essentially worshiping themselves. They also have not balanced their
rights with responsibility. They have not balanced their rights with the
rights of others.
However, in a way they do have a right to their own body, but in another
way they don't. God has given them autonomy and free will, but the body
is still his. Those who want to do what they want to do with it are
free to do it, but there are temporal and eternal consequences.
In addition, they also have a smaller number of "moral" items that they
are worried about, one being "my right." However, the Christian has
numerous moral laws that he or she abides by. This is why I think we do
have rights to our own body, but those rights to liberty and happiness
(as the US founding fathers identified) come after the right to life.
Thus, your liberty and happiness does not trump your progeny's right to
life.
These rights also are grounded upon the person, not the Creator as the
founding fathers claimed. If so, these morals, such as rights, are
subjective and can be changed at whim. This is why some think slavery,
rape and eugenics was maybe moral in the past for past people or for
different cultures, but not for today. Our morality says they are wrong
now.
When all is said and done, I think people think the line in the abortion
argument "my body, my right" because they are god in their own eyes,
thus, they call the shots.
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