Post-Roe Confusion and Grief
Then the man of God began to weep. (2Kings 8:11) I grieve. I have never been able to comprehend the hard positions over abortion, the binary world of all this or all that. The human, political, spiritual and ethical issues are much too complex for the sign waving, name calling, rush-to-the-extremes mess we have now. Sides have hardened again, as if at war with one another at the expense of both women and babies and I grieve. We're plunging into chaotic positioning in every state. There is much I don't understand and I have questions—many, many questions—some have been with me for a long time. How can someone call themselves pro-life and oppose universal health care especially for women and children? Why doesn't supporting health care get the same energy as criminalizing abortion? How can someone call themselves pro-life and support allowing eighteen year olds to obtain military grade weapons with few if any controls? How indeed can they call themselves pro-life and refus...