Showing posts with label anger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anger. Show all posts

Monday, 24 November 2008

Abortion Makes Me Mad

I want to know how to respond to abortion. I want to care for those who decide to keep their babies ... but whenever I think about it I have one overwhelming response: anger. I get so angry that I can't think rationally.

I am angry at the women who terminate their children. I'm angry at the fathers who are so often absent and just as culpable (if not more so). I'm angry at the medical workers who don't take a stand and kill, cut up, suck out and dispose of these little ones. I'm angry at the law that turns a blind eye to so much illegal activity. I'm angry at the politicians who do not protect the rights of the unborn. I'm angry at christian leaders who say nothing. I even get angry at Christian leaders who speak on the topic but couch it only in terms of women's rights and do not call it for what it is. I even find myself angry at the video that is doing the rounds about free money for new lives because it couches abortion in terms of a subjective harm on the mothers. But over all this I'm angry at myself for not doing enough. On this topic I have nothing else in me but anger.

This doesn't seem right. But I want to know - should I be angry? Is it wrong to be so angry? Because if it is I need to stop being so infuriated. But at the moment I can't help it.

PS. I think that fathers, mothers and health professionals who have been involved in abortion can find complete forgiveness and a new start in Christ (just like every other sinner) as many have done as they confess their failure before God. His arms are welcoming to everyone who wants to come home to him.
PPS. There is sin in my life that (if I'm honest) I'm not angry with at all. Is that just hypocrisy? Maybe it is.