Roe v. Wade and What We All Seem to be Missing

Leonard Cohen famously wrote, “In a massacre, there is no decent place to stand." Meaning, sometimes you are in a place where there is no good decision left — no matter what you do, it’s wrong.

So it is in the case of abortion. But, by the time you are faced with the unconscionable decision to end a life, you have most likely blown through fifty other bad choices to get there.

That said, my premise is not to debate the legality or morality of abortion because both are genuinely nested within a larger, overriding construct: Why is unprotected sex the never-discussed, ever-assumed constant in this life-taking, life-wrecking equation?

By the time one gets to the point of considering an abortion, it’s too late to ask the questions I want to ask. We have debates, rallies, protests, and politicking intent upon either proliferating or eliminating acts of abortion. Yet I never hear honest, deeply intellectual dialogue on the issues of human sexuality that lead to unwanted pregnancy in the first place.

As a citizenry, have we all silently agreed that the given state of affairs is; everyone is free to have unprotected sex with anyone, anywhere, anytime with no responsibility whatsoever? And further, we won’t even talk about it?

While I’ve never worn Amish broadtail trousers, I am far from prudish. But it was just one generation ago that answered the question — when to have sex— with: When you get married. And that was a good answer.

Today, it is entirely taboo to even whisper such restraint.

The benefits of a sacrificial life, specifically to deny oneself today in order to bring about a better tomorrow, are endless.

Reversibly, is a fleeting, personal pleasure today enough to tip the scales of tomorrow from the weight abortion places on the opposite pan?

With everything we know today about sex, protection, and pregnancy, it is reprehensibly appalling that feticide has essentially become just another form of contraception.

Pro Choicer’s act as if they were randomly stung by a bee and the Pro Lifer’s are denying them the right to pull the stinger out. The more foundational point is; why was your hand in the hive to begin with?

As for me and my house, we do not believe life begins at conception. We hold to a far more glorious revelation: Life begins before conception.

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.
~ Adonai in the Book of Jeremiah