I read something very interesting during the discussion in our State Parliament on the Reproductive Health Care Bill 2019 that I found rather striking and I thought I would share it.
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"Would you consider abortion in any of the following four situations:
1. There's a preacher and his wife who are very, very poor.
They already have 14 children, and now she finds out she's pregnant with number 15.
They're living in tremendous poverty ...
2. The father is sick with a bad cold, the mother has tuberculosis (TB).
They have four children. The first is blind, second is dead, third is deaf, the fourth has TB. She finds she is pregnant again ...
3. A white man has raped a 13-year-old black girl, and she has become pregnant ...
4. A teenage girl is pregnant. She's not married. Her fiancé is not the father of the baby and he's concerned ...
If you said yes to the first case, you just killed John Wesley, one of the great evangelists and hymn writers of the 19th century.
If you said yes to the second case, you killed Ludwig van Beethoven. If you said yes to third case, you killed Ethel Waters, the great black gospel singer who thrilled audiences for many years at Billy Graham crusades around the world.
And if you said yes to the fourth case, you killed Jesus Christ." (Stories, Illustrations Quotes by Robert J. Morgan)
We live in extraordinary times.
These are days when the medical profession can save a mother at the cost of the unborn.
Ethically, there are some circumstances where we face the conundrums of either/or decisions, of mother or child.
It is an unenviable choice and is a decision by family and doctor that requires prayer for a choice we wish we never have to make.
Under the law this has been accommodated for in the past and we understand the conundrum.
The bigger issue is when the either/or is unnecessary and death can be avoided.
The unborn should never be put to death as a result of personal promiscuity or some designer lifestyle.
The unborn should not suffer the economics of personal choice or be the casualty of the shame that someone might feel or what others might think.
I have no doubt it takes courage to move forward with a pregnancy you may not have planned for, or wanted.
The world has seen some extraordinary lives given birth in the midst of adversity, extraordinary lives cared for by courageous mothers or adopted by others desirous of offering life.
I think that this is a better consideration than the loss of a life.
