Choice or Child?
This morning I performed a bit of shopping.
Pocket-sized calculator for drug dosage calculations.
Embroidery thread to make the veterinary caduceus on my green overall-skirts.
Small notebook for writing important info about cases.
ID badge reel (makes me feel more official, as well as being safer and handier than the cord around neck technique).
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I saw a bumper sticker on my way back to school:
"If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?"
The question is beside the point in a pro-choice vs. pro-life debate. Is it wrong to kill a human, or not? If it is wrong, it is wrong, and whether or not the parent should be trusted to raise a child (which most parents can't be anyway except for the grace of God) it is still wrong to kill a human. If the bumper sticker owners are worried about an incompetent or unresponsible person raising a human, then they should think of another solution aside from killing the child.
In an attempt to be catchy, writer(s) of the statement end up displaying faulty reasoning. Their statement retains a thread of sense only when considered at a superficial level -- at a superficial level, well, obviously a choice is less important than a child, right? But delving deeper, realizing what the Choice is, we see that the Choice is the child's life in a balance. Will it be life, or death? That is not a choice that any human should be given, whether competent to raise a child or not. At its basis, to be pro-life is not a matter of lack of trust in an individual human -- it is a realization that the Choice by right is God's alone.
Pocket-sized calculator for drug dosage calculations.
Embroidery thread to make the veterinary caduceus on my green overall-skirts.
Small notebook for writing important info about cases.
ID badge reel (makes me feel more official, as well as being safer and handier than the cord around neck technique).
I saw a bumper sticker on my way back to school:
"If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?"
The question is beside the point in a pro-choice vs. pro-life debate. Is it wrong to kill a human, or not? If it is wrong, it is wrong, and whether or not the parent should be trusted to raise a child (which most parents can't be anyway except for the grace of God) it is still wrong to kill a human. If the bumper sticker owners are worried about an incompetent or unresponsible person raising a human, then they should think of another solution aside from killing the child.
In an attempt to be catchy, writer(s) of the statement end up displaying faulty reasoning. Their statement retains a thread of sense only when considered at a superficial level -- at a superficial level, well, obviously a choice is less important than a child, right? But delving deeper, realizing what the Choice is, we see that the Choice is the child's life in a balance. Will it be life, or death? That is not a choice that any human should be given, whether competent to raise a child or not. At its basis, to be pro-life is not a matter of lack of trust in an individual human -- it is a realization that the Choice by right is God's alone.
posted by Claire at 15:45
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