Why abortion is a deal-breaker

One of the major points of controversy in the proposed national healthcare upheaval is the matter of abortion. Liberals ultimately demand abortion on demand, at any time, for any reason. Conservatives -(REAL conservatives, not Republicans who work the electorate to the right and then vote left)- see abortion as a non-negotiable moral issue, and can't understand how anyone could entertain compromise on such a matter.

This article says that "Twice now, abortion was almost a dealbreaker." http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091222/D9CO403G0.html

Since I have a very eclectic collection of friends, including liberals, Democrats, and a smattering of atheists and agnostics, I have been asked "Why is abortion such a deal-breaker for you?" I'll try to explain it.

Abortion opponents like to show pictures of unborn/pre-born babies in utero to show the humanness... little fingers and toes and beating hearts, and that is a major issue. If one believes that life begins at conception, rather than at birth, there's little difference between ending the life of a fetus at 5 months or a 5 month-old baby. 

But I think there's a huge elephant in the room that nobody likes to mention. My liberal friends refer to abortion as a "women's issue," but it's not an issue for any of the women in my immediate circle of friends. It's an issue for liberal women; dare I say, it's an issue for promiscuous women. 

Women who remain virgins until marriage, and then remain faithful to their husband for life are not out campaigning in favor of abortion on demand. It is women who are sexually active before marriage, and outside of marriage, who are the vocal advocates of abortion. (Let me pause while some of you regain your composure and pick your jaw up off the floor; believe it or not, there are, indeed, women who walk down the aisle in a well-deserved white bridal gown, have their first sexual experience on their honeymoon, and live in faithful commitment to one man for life. There are men who are equally innocent and faithful.)

The availability of abortion reduces the imperative to remain sexually innocent, because the consequences of pre- and extra-marital sex are provided a failsafe. For those of us who believe in a God who demands that we live within parameters of conduct he has clearly defined, we also believe that their are laws governing our behavior. Just as surely as Newton's Third Law of Motion demands that "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction," God's Law demands that sin has consequences. There are natural, human consequences that we suffer in our bodies, and eternal consequences if the sin is not covered by the blood of Jesus Christ. \

Abortion is an attempt to by-pass one consequence of sin by burying the evidence.

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Before you jump on the advocacy science bandwagon

With age comes some perspective. Although it's trendy and fashionable to buy into the current hysteria about "Global Warming," within my lifetime I can remember scientists arguing (hysterically) the exact opposite view. There has been no substantial warming of the environment for the past 12 years. Period.

Want a dose of realism and perspective? Check out these links:

http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html

http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2009/12/back-when-global-cooling-was-rage.html

http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/33/6/437

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Cornwall Alliance releases An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming

Cornwall Alliance releases An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming

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PREAMBLE

As governments consider policies to fight alleged man-made global warming, evangelical leaders have a responsibility to be well informed, and then to speak out. A Renewed Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor: An Evangelical Examination of the Theology, Science, and Economics of Global Warming demonstrates that many of these proposed policies would destroy jobs and impose trillions of dollars in costs to achieve no net benefits. They could be implemented only by enormous and dangerous expansion of government control over private life. Worst of all, by raising energy prices and hindering economic development, they would slow or stop the rise of the world’s poor out of poverty and so condemn millions to premature death.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

1. We believe Earth and its ecosystems—created by God’s intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence —are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting, admirably suited for human flourishing, and displaying His glory.  Earth’s climate system is no exception. Recent global warming is one of many natural cycles of warming and cooling in geologic history.
2. We believe abundant, affordable energy is indispensable to human flourishing, particularly to societies which are rising out of abject poverty and the high rates of disease and premature death that accompany it. With present technologies, fossil and nuclear fuels are indispensable if energy is to be abundant and affordable.
3. We believe mandatory reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, achievable mainly by greatly reduced use of fossil fuels, will greatly increase the price of energy and harm economies.
4. We believe such policies will harm the poor more than others because the poor spend a higher percentage of their income on energy and desperately need economic growth to rise out of poverty and overcome its miseries.

WHAT WE DENY

1. We deny that Earth and its ecosystems are the fragile and unstable products of chance, and particularly that Earth’s climate system is vulnerable to dangerous alteration because of minuscule changes in atmospheric chemistry. Recent warming was neither abnormally large nor abnormally rapid. There is no convincing scientific evidence that human contribution to greenhouse gases is causing dangerous global warming.
2. We deny that alternative, renewable fuels can, with present or near-term technology, replace fossil and nuclear fuels, either wholly or in significant part, to provide the abundant, affordable energy necessary to sustain prosperous economies or overcome poverty.
3. We deny that carbon dioxide—essential to all plant growth—is a pollutant. Reducing greenhouse gases cannot achieve significant reductions in future global temperatures, and the costs of the policies would far exceed the benefits.
4. We deny that such policies, which amount to a regressive tax, comply with the Biblical requirement of protecting the poor from harm and oppression.

A CALL TO ACTION

In light of these facts,

1. We call on our fellow Christians to practice creation stewardship out of Biblical conviction, adoration for our Creator, and love for our fellow man—especially the poor.
2. We call on Christian leaders to understand the truth about climate change and embrace Biblical thinking, sound science, and careful economic analysis in creation stewardship.
3. We call on political leaders to adopt policies that protect human liberty, make energy more affordable, and free the poor to rise out of poverty, while abandoning fruitless, indeed harmful policies to control global temperature.

ENDORSEMENT

While our signatures express our endorsement only of this Declaration and do not imply agreement with every point in A Renewed Call to Truth, we believe that document provides ample justification for it. We call on scholars and experts to join us in signing this Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming.Any content

* Organization and title are listed for identification only, and do not imply organizational endorsement.

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