An amazing alternative to abortion
Here is my latest column as it appears in the Catoosa County News. This week’s topic concerns abortion. It is a complete coincidence that it was published on the same day as the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to support the Partial Birth Abortion Ban bill.
As an opponent of abortion I’ve all too often condemned the practice in the harshest of terms without offering any alternative. Most pro-lifers do. And, to be sure, it is a practice that justly deserves condemnation. Increasingly, however, I see that our energy and resources should be spent in finding alternatives that work, that help women, rather than on the legality of the issue itself. Outlaw it and the number of abortions will drop drastically. But just outlawing it would do nothing to address many of the reasons women consider it in the first place.
Pro-lifers have attacked the problem from the wrong angle, in other words. Don’t get me wrong- legal abortion in the US – enshrined into our laws - is an abomination against not only God but against the very principles we claim we live by. But let us rather focus on saving the lives of the unborn than on the laws. I hope this column opens the door to dialogue that moves us all in that direction.
April 21st, 2007 at 1:50 pm
[...] Abortion - the REAL issue April 21st, 2007 by Bijhan Al-Attack Fellow 451 Blogger Jeff O’Bryant wrote a recent article concerning the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban. But the ban, I felt, took a back seat to another point he made: As an opponent of abortion I’ve all too often condemned the practice in the harshest of terms without offering any alternative. Most pro-lifers do. And, to be sure, it is a practice that justly deserves condemnation. Increasingly, however, I see that our energy and resources should be spent in finding alternatives that work, that help women, rather than on the legality of the issue itself. [...]
April 21st, 2007 at 1:51 pm
http://www.politicalfrenzy.com/abortion-the-real-issue/