reprinted with permission from another blog http://www.standtrue.com
good for you Bryan!
I often get e-mails and messages
telling me that I should stay out of the 'abortion issue' because I'm a
man. I've been told that I have no business getting involved since I
can never get pregnant. Some even go so far as to tell me that, if men
could get pregnant, we would make abortion a sacrament.
The problem with this argument is that it's meant to detract from the
key issue of personhood. Most arguments you will hear from the
pro-abortion side are simply rabbit trails meant to steer clear of
personhood, the heart of what we are fighting for.
The first mistake is referring to it as the 'abortion issue.' While
abortion is the largest part of the personhood fight, it is still just
one part of the culture of death and the destruction of personhood.
This
is not just about women either; it's about everyone involved including
the mother, the father and the baby. To think that the mother of the
child being killed is the only one who has any right to an opinion is
absurd. Unfortunately, this argument is often used by men who call
themselves pro-life. They say
that, while they are pro-life, they have no business telling a woman not to kill her child.
Imagine if the rest of the world had that same attitude during the Nazi
Holocaust. "We are not German so we have no right telling them not to
kill other people." That is an insane argument, no one could agree
with a statement like that. To know about the killing of innocent
human persons and do nothing about it because it was 'none of your
business?' How absurd.
Right now it's extremely popular to stand up and be a voice for
Darfur. Should we tell people to mind their own business because we're
not from there and therefore have no right to an opinion? Or should we
not be worried about the blatant human rights violations going on in
China simply because we are not Chinese?
Edmund Burke said, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is
that good men do nothing." The evil of killing children has triumphed
in America for over 35 years now. This triumph has been fueled by the
apathy and denial of this generation.
Have you noticed how popular superhero movies are right now? We love
to see Spiderman or Batman take out the bad guys as we cheer them on
from the sidelines. We teach our kids that crime doesn't pay and make
heroes out of those that fight against evil. I wonder what kind of
lesson we teach them when we ourselves ignore evil because it's 'none
of our business?'
We know what is happening in abortion mills and doctors' offices every
day. We know that little baby boys and girls are being destroyed in
the name of choice as we turn a blind eye. Some people are waiting
for the politicians to step up, as if they are going to be like
Superman and swoop down to rescue the children right before the
doctor's suction machine destroys them.
Well, as a father, I refuse to wait for some superhero or politician to
teach my child a lesson about what is right and wrong. I refuse to
tell my kids that they should take a stand against evil and fight for
justice while I sit by and ignore the genocide that is killing one
fourth of their generation.
As a man, as a father, and as a human I will not stay out of the
'abortion issue.' As human persons we cannot look at abortion simply
as a women's issue. We must see it for what it is: the killing of
innocent human persons. We should not get involved because we are men
or women, but because we are human and it is our fellow human persons
who are facing genocide.
For Christ I stand,
