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BerianAardvark -> RE: Why are we more concerned with the unborn? (7/13/2008 9:37:52 AM)
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I was wondering something. As Christians we are fervent against abortion and more concerned toward the unborn. But I was looking at this one avatar that caught my attention. One in six children in the U.S. live in poverty. Meaning they do not have a place to live or enough food to eat. So I asked my fiance why are we more worried about the unborn than we are about children who really need a place to live and food?
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fiat_lux I think you should avoid generalizing too much. The last group I worked with, recently, were mostly Catholics, and it was a group which did both poverty and pro-life activisim. I personally am not more worried about one group of those who suffer than another, and I sense from your post that you are not either. Yet we are both Christians. And I am sure that there are many like us on these forums. Probably most people here, actually.
You are right there, it is incumbent upon us to advocate for ALL of those who are in need. But the Lord puts some more strongly on one person's heart than another in part because there are so many.
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But, as for the question of why we are so concerned with the unborn...it's because when mere people take on the task of saying who lives and who doesn't, it affects us all. We are all at risk then. If we sit idly by and let judges say we can kill unborn babies, then they'll eventually start allowing the elderly (thus unproductive, inconvenient and economically and socially "dead") to be killed off, too. All in the name of "euthanasia". So, we'd better be concerned about where it's all starting now...with the unborn.
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fiat_lux We already, in our societies, have a variety of means by which "mere people" take on this task of meting out death. It doesn't start just with abortion.
No, but abortion was the first to be granted legitimacy and turned into a multi-million dollar "industry". A blow struck at it will have a "ripple effect" on the others, just as legitimatizing the one encouraged/opened the door for the others.
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The unborn are absolutely helpless, unable to speak or do anything for themselves, and those are the ones that we are especially called upon to look after because they have no one else to act as their advocate, and absolutely no way to speak for themselves (unlike the poor).
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fiat_lux Poor children have basically no way to speak on their behalf, so I think this really ought to apply to that issue too.
It does, and for many years abortion advocates applied it with their own spin....why bring an unwanted baby into a world where they will live a poor and desolate life? At least the living have opportunities to improve their lot, not so the aborted.
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The others who posted here weren't kidding even a little when they said even the poorest of people here in the states live (comparatively) like royalty.
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fiat_lux I can't speak for where you live, but I know that where I live there are a number of people who do not live in any way like royalty. Many of them are homeless. Some of those homeless are youths. Othesr are not quite homeless but are totally or partially dependent on others just for subsistence. For every "poor" person living in relative comfort, I can find another who is not.
The unborn are even more dependent upon others for their subsistence, and they have no shelters available when the "owner" or their current residence decides the do some "Dusting and Cleaning" (a rather cynical euphemism for Dilation and Cutage, the medical term for the standard means of abortion).
The poor in America (even those who are homeless) have at least some sort of safety net available, those in most of the rest of the world have absolutely none. It is relative to them that the American poor and homeless live well, no one has mean to infer that the poor here don't suffer deprivation, but ralative to others i the world they have many more options.
Tim
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