Being Pro-Life
‘Does life begin at conception or birth? Neither - it begins when the children leave home!’ It’s good to hopefully get a laugh out of a serious matter that frequently sets Christians at loggerheads with their contemporaries. Thanks to medical science and Ultrasound technology everyone is able to see what only God saw before, life in the womb, and that knowledge can be problematic. So many blessings have come to pregnant women from ultrasound scans and yet the information provided has led some parents into agonising decision making. Where handicap is evident, should the pregnancy proceed? Being Pro-Life in a narrow definition is associated with accepting any unborn child as God’s gift of a new life rejecting abortion. The label ‘Pro-Choice’ affirms a mother’s right over her body including her right to destroy any foetus she is bearing if she judges their life prospects as weak or the birth as being against her own interests. Already the word ‘life’ is being used in two senses, one...