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If the right to life is a Christian tenet how about we look to Jesus.
The New Testament makes crystal clear that Jesus was on the side of children and women. If I need to spell this out I will, but there should be no need. The only other group that Jesus is as solicitous about are sinners - those who understand who they are and are daily penitent.
The right to life folk do not act as Jesus did. If they did they would be up in arms about the treatment of children and women. They would see patriarchy as a problem to be resolved by empowering women. They would defend children from abuse and bullying. They would champion economic and social equality and universal education.
They would further advocate for peace because killing is a monstrous sin.
They would further advocate for peace because killing is a monstrous sin.
But right to life has every appearance of being concerned only with the right to birth. It is Abba who sees us to birth. It is not something we can or should force. When there is a child it is our sacred obligation to nurture her. When there is a conflict that could lead to war it is our sacred obligation to nonviolently protest and create alternatives.
The right to life folk do not subscribe to these logical inferences with anything like the zeal with which they now score contraception under the rubric of religious freedom. So transparent is this contradiction that right to life loses traction daily.
