I am a member of a few Pro-Life groups online and some which appear to be simply "anti-abortion". I don't like the term "anti"-anything. It is not conducive to love and compassion. I have so much love in my heart. Something I believed was a curse for many years. I have a lot of empathy, even when I can't possibly understand or sympathise with someone's circumstances. Even on the topic of abortion, I struggle to muster up the hatred (for lack of a better word) and I now understand that this is a quality in my character, rather than a flaw.
I believe in love knowing no bounds. I believe in a benevolent and merciful God. I believe that in order to call myself a true Christian, I should be following Christ's lead, and this means before anything else, to love!
I believe God gave us free will and hoped that we would not abuse it. As I have mentioned before on this blog, our free will is so important to God - why would He want a bunch of robots who only love and honour Him because they have to? He gave us autonomy and allows us to choose to love Him, of our own accord, even when sometimes there seems to be a better offer on the table.
You see, choice is so important to God, and therefore it should be important to us, too. This is why I can't categorically state that I am not "pro-choice". It is unfortunate that the pro-abortion community seem to have taken the word "choice" away from it's true meaning and told us that if we value life above all else, we cannot possibly claim to be an advocate for choices in life. I resent this. I choose things every day of my life! This doesn't make me any less of a Christian. It doesn't make my heart break any less for the victims of abortion, or euthanasia, or gendercide. It doesn't make me any more of a person that the next.
So rather than labelling myself as "pro-life" or "pro-choice", I choose to call myself "PRO-LOVE". I didn't fit into any of the pre-defined boxes relating to this cause, so I have created a Facebook page [here] of my own, and although I'm not entirely sure where this passion may lead me, I feel it is the right time to share it with the world.
I am not against anyone. I wish that abortion was never legalised, but then again there would still be occurrences of the "procedure" taking place in back alleys and underground clinics. I pray that one day, rather than simply outlawing abortion again, we are able to eradicate it completely, just from educating our young people and adults and guiding them into making the right choices.
1 Corinthians 13:13 tells us, "Three things will last forever--faith, hope, and love--and the greatest of these is love." I believe that love will change the world. It already has done once before, when Jesus sacrificed His own blood for the sinners of our world. How many more babies will have their blood shed, as living sacrifices, before we recognise what we are doing?!
It needs to stop. Now.
I'm ready to battle; I'm ready to stand up and be counted. Let's re-educate our world.
Are you in?
