It may come as a surprise to many people but I am Pro Choice! Sometimes, when Christians hear those words they cringe and are certain heretics that say that will fry in hell for eternity—fry like a moth caught in a bug zapper.
Perhaps I should clarify; I am Pro Choice before conception! That’s right, I encourage men and women to choose as to whether or not they want to have sex and make a baby. I encourage men and women to choose what kind of birth control they’ll use so that an unwanted pregnancy doesn’t occur; and all of that within God’s plan for intimacy and propagation.
However, once conception occurs I am Pro Life!
I speak from experience when it comes to this issue; I fathered a child out of wedlock and my girlfriend’s mother pushed her to have an abortion. I was seventeen, my girlfriend was sixteen; we stepped outside of God’s plan for intimacy and propagation and it changed our lives dramatically. Two wrongs wouldn’t have made anything right, it just would have ensured a baby die so that life, career and future went uninterrupted.
I wonder if in the tens of millions of babies we slaughtered in the United States if somewhere tucked in the midst of them was a future scientist who would have discovered the cure for AIDS/HIV that a friend of mine has, or the cure for cancer from which dad died, or a cure for Alzheimer’s disease which my mom now has, or a thousand other things that plague mankind.
Every time I speak with my son face-to-face I’m reminded that I need to continue to be Pro Choice prior to conception and Pro Life after conception, otherwise the Short North would be missing one gifted Advanced Sommelier and I’d be missing one my life’s greatest joys.
