This is part III of an article series on this topic. If you haven’t, you can find the first two here and here. This third part addresses the notion that pro-lifers need to do more for foster kids, single moms, healthcare, homelessness, poverty, and all other global ills before the rest of the world can accept that abortion is wrong. It goes something like this:
“Now that Roe V. Wade has been overturned, will pro-lifers step up and do something about our adoption agencies, single mothers, etc?”
I am a firm believer that we as Christians can and should always do more to walk the walk, especially if we talk the talk. We do need to do what we are all called to do, and many of us are called to help children and mothers in need. But make no mistake, this is not a tradeoff. Certain states making the murder of babies in the illegal again does not need to be reciprocated in any way, and people who make that argument are in no position to do so. At all. What the argument is basically saying is that if we as Christians don’t adopt more children, they should have the right to murder them again. That is going to be a hard no from me.
Not to mention the fact that pro-life Christians make up the majority of adoptors and financiers of programs who help single moms, poor families, and children in need. I’ve written all about that in an older article on this topic, which you can find here.
So whereas we pro-lifers can definitely step up more, so can those of you who oppose us, and none of this makes not murdering babies conditional, which again, remains legal in many states. Nothing we will do can ever bring back the over 60 million babies legally murdered since 1973, but we can certainly do better for our future babies.
As far as the issue of life, the overturning of Roe V. Wade is a good thing. We have much work to do as a society. Our families are in disrepair. Our fathers are not in their rightful place. Our children are suffering from poverty and suicidal depression. Instead of making the case that it is better for them to be dead than poor, we should all–all of us–strive to protect, preserve, and enhance their lives.
To life~