From: hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Hudson Jr)
Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers (was Re: An Abortion Argument that has nothing to do with OT and NT)
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:24:17 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.182143.16471@news.unomaha.edu> trajan@cwis.unomaha.edu (Stephen McIntyre) writes:

>     Omaha Church Members 'Pray for Zealots'
>               by Michael W. Pirtle
>     
>        On Christmas Eve, like many other families, we received
>     a number of wonderful Christmas cards in our mailbox from
>     family and friends.  Unfortunately, along with a number of 
>     other individuals and families in the Omaha area, we also 
>     received a postcard with a photograph puportedly dipicting
>     an aborted and dismembered seven-month-old premature infant.
>     
>        This issue is especially difficult and sensitive for our
>     family.  In February 1989 we buried our beloved daughter,
>     Erin, who had lived for only three months in a neonatal
>     intensive care unit after being born severely premature,
>     weighing 1 pound, 11 ounces.  We have since privately adopted
>     two beautiful baby girls.

I personally find it repugnant to carry dead unborn babies around in a jar.
Most would consider it disrespectful to lug a corpse of a fully grown
person around, even if one were lugging aroud a dead Jewish body during
the holocost to make a point.  But I can see why they would do that, or
send pictures of aborted babies to advocates of abortion.  

I still don't understand the reasoning of someone who obviously considered
his premature daughter to be human and of great value, yet who defends the
killing of another child who may even be more mature.  It is said that 
Roe v. Wade allows abortion up to the 9th month.

>        The members of the Lord of Love are involved in numerous
>     projects and activities that involve others, both locally
>     and elsewhere.  For example, we will build a house with 
>     several other local churches next summer for Habitat for
>     Humanity.  We are involved in outreach ministry to those 
>     suffering from the AIDS virus.  We are assisting abused women
>     and children, and have settled a number of families from
>     foreign countries.  We helped establish the Lutheran Service
>     Corps, an organization that will provide volunteer labor for
>     local charities.  The list could go on.
>     
>        However, the anti-abortion zealots are not interested in
>     hearing about the many good deeds our congregation is
>     involved in.

There are also pro-lifers who are involved in great charitable work.  For
example, in New York, David Wilkerson's church is doing some incredible work
with drugg addicts and homeless people.  The good works have nothing to do with
abortion.  It is possible to do good works with impure motivation.  Paul wrote
of those who preached Christ our of impure motivations.  One Baptist minister
who ran an orphanage recounts how God told him that his life was an abomination
in His sight.  He did the goods works in his own name, out of impure 
motivations.  The people at Lord of Love may very well do this works unto the
Lord, but if the church encourages murder, then there is a problem.
It is possible for genuine Christians to be wrong about things, and there are
only two sides to this issue.  

Link Hudson.




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