Why It’s Hard to Believe Abortion is Wrong.
A really good post by a Catholic writer who was recently Freshly Pressed. I have always believed that abortion is wrong, and have only recently realised that as the daughter of a man who could be described as a “rape baby” I have personal as well as logical reasons to believe it.
And yet, I don’t do anything about abortion’s prevalence, apart from occasionally get into arguments with people. The thought of those seven holocausts a year sickens me, but so do my country’s child abuse and youth suicide statistics, and I don’t feel like I can do anything much about those either.
I feel a certain amount of pressure to write something “awesome” after my blog being so described by someone far too kind (here), and I’ve been thinking a lot about what he’s been writing about lately too. It’s true that there is an awful lot of evil and injustice in the world, and the Church needs to be responding to it. But is it the Church’s job to take on these problems head on (spending funds only on benefitting the poor and needy while pastors work as volunteers and the congregation all take turns at preaching)? Or is that up to specific organisations or groups connected with the Church – and us individual members – while the Church fulfils the mission of introducing people to Christ and helping us to mature in Him?
If we all, and I mean ALL, everyone in the whole world, believed in and were transformed by the love of Christ and the Holy Spirit working in us, that would solve ALL the problems. ALL THE THINGS!!! It’s not a cop-out, or a numbers game. It’s our Mission. As we work towards it, each of us makes the lives around us a little better, and the future a little brighter, and maybe brings a few more friends into the fold, and they start to make the lives around them a little brighter…
I’ve started from one person’s blog post and ended up answering another’s, which is probably bad etiquette or something. I have to confess that my blog is mostly stream-of-consciousness (which is never going to get me Freshly Pressed…) and here you see perhaps a little further into my soul than I intended. Ambitious, insecure, defensively self-deprecating…
Also I like ending sentences with three dots…
But God loves me anyway. And you. A lot.
Even, even, if you spell it alot.
Worms 
This is hard for me, since it’s a prickly subject and I have just the right set of beliefs to be prickled (is that even a word?) by it. Still, something about this struck me as really good: somehow you managed to tell me something that might otherwise get my hackles up. The fact that you stated your opposition to abortion while both not making it out to be the sole evil in the world and sharing your reason for not acting on it. What it comes down to is I REALLY need to see people who I disagree with coming across as regular human beings, like you did. I hate the demonizing that goes on with this topic (from all sides); it’s too important to mess up and also too easy to get carried away with the passion of it. So, thank you!
Thank you! I know exactly what you mean about seeing “people who I disagree with coming across as regular human beings”, and I wrote a bit about it in a post a couple of months ago (here: https://cannopener.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/us-and-them/). We’ll get there, slowly. 🙂