Abortion

There are many arguments for and against abortion, which I don't want to get into now. Leaving these aside, the tragedy is that abortion takes the most sacred of things (life) and can make it out to be something disposable.

God has lovingly given us the right and responsibility to procreate, to participate in his creation and re-creation of the world, and we must take this seriously. The consumeristic attitude of "If I don't like it, I can just take it back" just isn't right when applied to human life. Of course there are complicated reasons for people making the decision to abort their child and life is never that simple. The thing is, there are no receipts. This is human life. This is God's gift and these things can't be undone.

In this sense, I don't see how abortion could possibly be the best course for creation. However, those of us that like to talk about such matters should start providing some alternatives and quickly. We must be part of the education process and offer solutions for mothers who wish to bring their children into the world but don't feel able to do it alone.