Christian and Pro-Choice..HOW?

Pro-Life Christian Doesn't Understand

I understand that people are Christian. I understand that people are Pro-Life and Pro-Choice. What I cannot understand is how a Christian can be Pro-Choice. I have struggled with this subject for years. I must admit I need help. I cannot equate a Christian (as I know it) being Pro-Choice.

In my belief system, Jesus loved the little children. He made it fairly clear that you were not to harm them. Being a Christian means being Christ-like. Would Jesus be Pro-Choice? No. I cannot feature
 Jesus being anything but Pro-Life.

Then the subject of when is a baby a human being enters the abortion discussion. At conception is the only answer I can come up with. I mean, how do you put a certain day, week or month as the "moment" a human being becomes a human being? I have never found in the Bible where it says at what date a baby is supposed to be considered "human". Even if you do not look to the Bible for this answer, how in the world do you precisely know the moment of a human becoming a human if not at conception?

In years gone by, when abortion was strictly taboo, there was no gray area of conception or day, week or month. It was all pretty black and white. Abortion was wrong and there was no right to it. The church, Christians, all believed that it was wrong. Over the last 30 years it has become clear that many churches and many Christians have decided to embrace the abortion of babies..the abortion of human beings.

I wonder to myself how people can read the Bible, believe in God, love Jesus and or sit in church every Sunday and think it is okay to be Pro-Choice instead of Pro-Life. I have tried not to be tunnel visioned about this. And, as the elections heat up every cycle, I come back to this same head scratcher. People who know me know that I truly do not understand this. I have never gotten a reasonable answer.

 
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well most of these people are right. to be christain means that you have the choice of dicisions for yourself. you do not choose for others. nevermind the part of life starts at birth (times have changed and we know more now)but what it truly means to be christian isnt really understood.to be truly christian is nearly as demanding as jewish and muslim belifes. only thing is that it only affects you as the beliver and all laws/rules dont apply to outsider unlike other religions. so there is still a long road for you to discover of being christian before you can understand this minor question and i wish you luck and hope on finding it

Posted on 07/01/2009 at 7:07:54 AM

Gen 2:7 then the Lord God formed (yatsar) man of dust from the ground (biological life), and breathed (naphach) into his nostrils the breadth of life. (Neshumah chayyah, literally a soul having life .ie. human life) If you go to the original languages that the bible was written in there are no mysteries, it is pretty strait forward. There is no soul life until a baby breathes its first breadth of air. Futhermore in old jewish law, if a pregnant female was an innocent bystander in a brawl and was assaulted. If the female lost the child, the perpatrator would be charged with assualt only, not murder. Even in old testament times the jews understood this quite clearly, there is physical life in the womb, but not soul life. Without a soul it is like killing a snake or fly. All this tripe about pro-life and murder is another one of satan's triumphs in his world, where for now he's the ruler, and we are mere pawns in this angelic conflict. Read your bible and translate it from the ori

Posted on 05/05/2009 at 8:05:44 PM

May God guard our hearts . . .

Posted on 04/07/2009 at 7:04:37 AM

(Take 2. It cut me off the first time.) ... Basically, I was trying to say that although I think abortion is ugly, unnatural, and unnecessary, criminalizing it simply because our faith prohibits it would amount to legislating religion - mandating that even non-believers must live according to the Bible. If we follow that path, then why not criminalize premarital sex, condemning others, and taking the Lord's name in vain while we're at it? And Catholics might want to criminalize the sale of contraceptives as well. The bottom line is that the Constitution gives us freedom to choose and practice whatever religion we believe in, just as God gave us the freedom to choose Him by our own free will. Witnessing and encouraging non-believers to choose Christ is great, but if we use the legal system to force them to follow Christian values, wouldn't that in essence be analogous to the way the Taliban enforced sharia law in Afghanistan?

Posted on 03/21/2009 at 12:03:40 AM

I've been a Christian and pro-choice my entire life. My devotion to Christ comes before anything and everything else. Although I realize the legal status of abortion is an emotional issue for many people, I hope you'll consider what I have to say with an open mind. From your post, you sound like an honest and rational person. At the very least, I think this should answer your question of how a Christian can be pro-choice. Personally, I've never seen a compelling argument for why being a Christian means I have to staunchly support the idea of imprisoning doctors who perform abortions for people who want them. Now don't get me wrong. I don't "like" abortion. Abortion is ugly, unnatural, and if performed in the latter stages of pregnancy even cruel. It shouldn't be necessary in the first place. People who don't have the means to care for a child have a solemn obligation not to make one. Society needs to teach young people the value of abstinence. Anyone who says that makes m

Posted on 03/21/2009 at 12:03:27 AM

Life begins at birth. If it didn't then we would measure someone's age differently. How do you measure when conception takes place? Why don't we celebrate our conception date instead of birth date?

Posted on 02/13/2009 at 10:02:23 PM

Although this is a very delicate subject, you managed to present your view respectfully. It is refreshing to see such consideration when so many choose to spread their misery by mimicking the caustic behavior of radio shock jocks and political pundits.

Posted on 01/05/2009 at 12:01:18 AM

This is where I believe things get confused... When speaking of Pro Choice, one must understand that supporters of Pro Choice are just that, they support the fact that women have their right to choose whether or not to have an abortion. Pro Choice supporters do not necessarily support abortion. "I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion." - Hillary Clinton On the subject of Christians being Pro Choice, I cannot fathom a Christian not being Pro Choice. I realize many of you are surprised by me saying this but i must explain. God gave us free will, this is understood by all Christians. Whether or not we make the right decision is up to us. So when it comes to abortion, Christians supporting Pro Choice is parallel to Christians believing in the Bible which states that God gave us free will.

Posted on 12/15/2008 at 8:12:28 PM

An excellent question. As with Kim, I wonder how Obama can support abortion and call himself a Christian. When I thought someone very close to me (also a christian) was going to vote for Obama, I reminded her of Obama's quite liberal stance on abortion. In the end, she chose McCain. These comments are excellent.

Posted on 11/23/2008 at 9:11:44 PM

So many comments here have already said it all. The reasons Bible-believers give me for being pro-choice is just reiterating what they hear in the mainstream media.

Posted on 11/08/2008 at 11:11:24 PM

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