Can’t We Do Both?
I read this statement the other day, it was a comment posted by someone, they disagreed with a blog posted by Pastor Joel Stockstill.
http://www.joelstockstill.com – click on the comments to read the statement I am referring to.
“Though I don’t at all want to diminish the horrible tragedy of abortion, I believe it is more Godly to aid a single mother in poverty than it is to shout from the comfort of my living room that she shouldn’t have an abortion.”
This was my response…
Why can’t we do both. Why can’t we stand up and shout abortion is murder and help the single mother. Why do we have to choose? I really understand what you (touray and elizabeth) are saying but I can’t agree. How is it possible to ignore the fact that Obama supports the murder, death, end of a life…and McCain supports the life, birth, beginning of a life. The environment, the economy all of these things are important to me and to you. I just find it impossible to support murder. I know Obama might do more for social injustice, but I can’t excuse murder because the church isn’t responding. I also can’t vote for a man who would have allowed me and you to be killed in the womb of our mother because I was mad at republicans for not doing anything to save the environment. We can do both…and my church and family do both, we minister to the single mom and stand up for the right of unborn children. reducing the number of abortions is not the goal, GOD’S heart breaks every time we destroy a life He created.
I’m not a huge fan of McCain, but I do know death is the end for that baby, so how do we fight for the right of a single mom who by our standards didn’t even have the right to live until she was born. It seems to me if human life were valued, then people would respond to the single mom and help, but the truth is people like to act like they care about single mom’s to find some sort of moral high ground. It is a crazy world that kills babies, but spends billions to stop pollution.
