From: trajan@cwis.unomaha.edu (Stephen McIntyre)
Subject: Christian Pro-Choicers 
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:26:12 GMT

hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu  writes:

(Letter I copied deleted)

> 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.

First of all, the Court last June (I believe) redefined Roe v.
     Wade.  Secondly, The Court who determined Roe v. Wade
     allowed the state to proscribe abortion in the last
     trimester (or last three months of pregnancy) unless
     the woman's health was threatened.  Please look up the
     decision if you are in doubt.

> 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 w/
> 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 abomina-
> tion 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.  

I'd like to ask a simple question: where in the New Testament does
     either Jesus or God say, "I leave it unto you, my followers,
     to persecute those who you deem in the wrong."?  I do recall
     a passage where Jesus, in a parable, talked of two men going
     before the temple to ask for forgiveness.  One said something
     to the effect of, "Forgive me Lord.  I am a sinner."  The 
     other (perhaps a Pharisee?) said somthing to the effect of,
     "Aren't you glad I'm not like that sinner over there-- me,
     your ever-faithful servant?"  It would seem the writer of
     the above paragraph would fall in line with the second
     personage. 
     
But, to get back to the topic Link wrote about, why must there
     only be two sides to the issue?  Why must there only be
     pro-life and anti-life?  Why not a side whereby we let 
     people make up their own minds, and let God take care of 
     them in the end?  For surely, if a woman had an abortion
     and a physician performed it for her, God would condemn
     them (at least in the mind of our law-abiding, God-
     fearing citizen.)  So why not let God do the job of
     judging and condemning (I'm sure He'll do a much better
     job of it than Link ever could)?

> Link Hudson.

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