tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208902948988975499.post3650001442040893120..comments2023-09-23T09:03:28.586-05:00Comments on Proclaiming and Preparing: Is this the new pro-choice movement?Daniel Bennetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09695545556655878383noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208902948988975499.post-85497703357954143502008-05-07T22:29:00.000-05:002008-05-07T22:29:00.000-05:00Just so you know, pro-choice isn't the same thing ...Just so you know, pro-choice isn't the same thing as pro-abortion. Juno made a choice to keep the baby and give it up for adoption, which was her own free choice and not one forced on her by fear of punishment.<BR/><BR/>I'm pro-choice myself, but I'd also like to see much, much fewer abortions, ideally zero, because they are dangerous and traumatic procedures with serious moral issues. But this should be achieved through education about the alternatives and contraception, not through state intimidation. If you want to see what the latter option looks like, read up on the situation in El Salvador, the most stridently anti-choice nation in the world.JLeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16916329912516191709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208902948988975499.post-14925841094295453692008-03-03T09:25:00.000-06:002008-03-03T09:25:00.000-06:00This topic ties in perfectly with yesterday's serm...This topic ties in perfectly with yesterday's sermon. Our culture absolutely hates to take a moral stand on controversial issues and anyone who is willing to stand up and declare something right or wrong is labeled intolerant or ignorant. That is currently where we find the pro-choice movement. Personally they find abortion repugnant, but in order to aviod being intolerant they let the woman seeking an abortion decide if the choice is right or wrong for her. After all, what right does society have to dictate morality when it's such a personal choice? It's remarkable to me how society determines which issues allow for moral outcry and which do not. For example, the Michael Vick case caused an absolute uprising. People were outraged and immediately declared dog fighting inhumane, despicable, and immoral. Where is Vick's right to choose in all of this? Surely if one can do as they please with their uterus then the same can be said about the pets they keep in kennels on their personal property. The cornerstone of the pro-choice camp is that a fetus is not fully a person and therefore cannot possibly be afforded the same rights. Clearly a pit bull is not a person. But most Americans feel more compassion and responsibility for those dogs than they do for the millions of unborn human children that have been lost to Roe v Wade. I pray that the evolution of postition continues to move in favor of the unborn. Any victory for the pro-life movement should be embraced. However, we must not allow a corrupt, evil society to set the standards for us. Taking a personal stance is simply not enough, it must be a collective public outcry calling abortion what is, murder. That is where I pray this country is headed. <BR/><BR/>The horror of abortion makes me glad that this is not our home.Emhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17349581863337490686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208902948988975499.post-80088129235424153272008-03-02T21:38:00.000-06:002008-03-02T21:38:00.000-06:00I saw this movie. I really think the only reason J...I saw this movie. I really think the only reason Juno was pro-choice was because that is what people said she should be. She was confronted with making up her own mind when she went to the abortion clinic and was confronted with the facts. I really don't think she ever looked back once she left the clinic. Though the movie had some scenes I thought were pretty inappropriate (in language and image), I do feel like there was a little bit redeeming about it. She made very grown up decisions about a very mature topic. Who says peer pressure HAS to win out? As far as is the movie pro-choice, I don't believe it is. If that's what the writers were trying to get across, why would she not have ended her pregnancy? And I really thought it was interesting that the one thing that got her thinking was the comment about the baby having fingernails. Pretty amazing...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208902948988975499.post-88194749785416415622008-03-01T12:24:00.000-06:002008-03-01T12:24:00.000-06:00Dear Grandson,Wonder how many people would take...Dear Grandson,<BR/>Wonder how many people would take a pro-choice stand if they think about their own mothers and consider them having taken the "pro-choice stand" and deciding to end their baby's life? I think these "pro-choicers" should consider that. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I always am pulling for the babies. Love you all bunches.<BR/>GrammyGrammyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07080499751409620799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208902948988975499.post-84420598821565150992008-03-01T07:20:00.000-06:002008-03-01T07:20:00.000-06:00Just happened to watch the movie on the airplane t...Just happened to watch the movie on the airplane to Korea. I would say that most of the characters encouraged the abortion choice, but then when she made the choice to have the baby, they supported her decision. She also faced a lot of ridicule from classmates and even one of the doctors doing her ultrasound. I don't know that I would say it has a strong pro-life theme except that she chose life.Teresahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06656708005052211950noreply@blogger.com