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Tough issue.
In order to understand the "religious right" you need to grow up in a "religious" household.
Throughout the 80's I was indoctrinated by my father and the parish of our local Assembly of God church.
I was part of that whole spin the record backwards and hearing satanic messages group...LOL.
When discussing issues like these those that live and breathe the church are fond of making these issue black and white. The reason being is because of scriptures in the bible that call Jesus the light and state things like (paraphrasing here) "where there is light there can be no darkness."
But what I learned was that might be true in the world of gods but here in the world of man the quote should read "where the is light there can be no darkness, but there are SHADOWS."
Our world is filled not with just black and white, but varying degrees of grey. We have plenty of shadows.
My point can be best described by telling you a true story about abortion and our family.
The ironic thing about life is that you and your belief system will be often tested and that is exactly what happened to my father.
My younger brother who is "troubled" to say the least got his girlfriend pregnant in the early 90's.
My father knowing my brother who even though he had reached the age of majority was not mentally or financially prepared to raise a child knew that there were limited choices in how to handle this delicate issue.
My father who just a few short years earlier was staunchly pro-life was now calling me looking for help in funding the pending abortion.
My brother and his girlfriend raised the money and the abortion was performed and a sad part of our family history was created.
I am like a lot of others here who do not like the idea of abortion being used as a means of birth control. I would like to see something like this only be used in cases of extreme need, whether that be medical reasons etc.
But I am pro-choice because I haven't had to walk in the shoes of those who had to make this tough choice and pray to God I won't ever have to.
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