[Magdalen] pondering politics

[James Handsfield]

I think abortion involves sin.  I think divorce involves sin.  Taking a life involves sin.  Come to think of it, I believe that no human act, however well intended, has a sinful aspect to it, simply he have not the knowledge nor wisdom to really KNOW what is right and wrong.  Only God has that ability.

There’s a Jewish tradition that the creation of Leviathan in Genesis 1 is the creation of evil.  God created evil because God is interested in our choices.  One can use that to argue theologically in favor of being pro-choice.

All too often in life we are faced with situations in which there is no good action.  \In the case of abortion, there are many circumstances where there is no good option.  It becomes our burden to accept the least bad option.  I think abortion often falls into that situation.  Having said that, I disagree with the use of abortion as after the fact birth control.  But, as has been said, it’s not my call, but the choice of the mother.  I hope she’d discuss it with the fetus’ father and perhaps some other counselor . . . but it’s still her choice.

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Education is its own reward, both for the individual and for society.

Jim Handsfield
jhandsfield at att.net

> On Jul 9, 2016, at 4:37 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The difference between abortion and, say, murder of a newborn child is
> of course that the unborn child is still within its mother's body.
> That's where the mother has the right to decide. But that doesn't
> remove the moral dimension of the decision: I think a great many
> abortions are a grave moral error (sin, even). But that's between the
> woman and God. She still has the right to decide. It may be the
> morally best course of action, or it may not be. Supporting the
> woman's right to choose (and, if abortion is chosen, supporting legal
> and safe ways to do it) doesn't mean one thinks abortion is morally
> neutral.