When we discuss Pro-Life we must understand foe what life we are pro.

We hear a lot about cloning and stem cell research and how they require the destruction of embryos. Some folks are convinced that "life" begins at conception, which means at the embryo stage and that embryos are living human beings. They believe destroying embryos is destroying "life". These same people consider it permissible to freeze these human beings and put them into limbo while they decide if they will permit them to join the ranks of the "born". Kind of a God decision is it not? These same people believe that for embryos to be destroyed to provide raw materials for stem cell research is bad but that it is OK to freeze these same embryos even though there is a high probability some will be destroyed or is it be killed? Would they be willing to freeze the "born" members of their family with the possibility they would die from the experience?

When we talk about these subjects we must first define the type of life we are concerned for and for what reason.

One of the effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human suffering. Religion allows Christians to imagine that our concerns are moral when they have nothing to do with suffering or its alleviation or when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why we expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide and why we are more concerned about human embryos than about the life saving promise of stem cell research and it explains why we preach against condom use while millions die from AIDS each year.

We direct our efforts to constrain the sexual behavior of consenting adults and to discourage our children from having premarital sex. Our efforts are almost never geared toward the relief of human suffering, which appears to rank low on our list of priorities.

Christians are not principally concerned about teen pregnancy and the spread of disease. That is we are not concerned with the suffering caused by sex; we are worried about sex.

We do little for life once it is born. Handicapped, abused, genocide, orphaned, children of incest or rape, are categories in which those who are Pro-Life show little interest. Our President is against stem cell research that offers to improve the lives of the citizens of the United States and of the world but he is willing to sacrifice the lives of our citizens for people who do like us and in reality hate us as their religion approves the killing of those whom they label as "unbelievers." We permit our government to sacrifice our fellow citizens on the altar of politics.

Various sexually transmitted diseases effect a large number of our citizens. One of which is HPV, which is believed to cause cervical cancer; the CDC estimates 5,000 women in the US of A and 200,000 women worldwide die each year. Tests show it appears to be safe and effective. Some Christian Conservatives in our government have resisted a vaccination program on the grounds that HPV is a valuable impediment to premarital sex. They want to preserve cervical cancer as an incentive toward abstinence, even if it means sacrificing the lives of thousands of women each year. I imagine some of those women are on the prayer list of some congregations, somewhere.

When we discuss Pro-Life we must understand foe what life we are pro.

We would be wise to be prepared to answer….

Regards,
John Jenkins

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Gatlinburg, TN
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com

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