Comments on: On Evangelicalism and Abortion

By: C. Andrew Jones III

C. Andrew Jones III — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:29:52 +0000

Well, crazies tend to ignite controversy and boost ratings. Thanks for your thoughtful comments, Charlie and Dantzler.

By: Dantzler

Dantzler — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:40:38 +0000

its also currently the case that a wife doesn’t have to inform her husband if she gets an abortion. now me and most of my prochoice cohorts i think agree that the wife should tell her husband and the 17yr old and under girls should tell her parents. a woman, just like anyone else, deserves all the options; abortion, adoption, keeping it. and that’s a tough decision. thus, the more people involved in making that decision, particularly if the woman in quesiton is under 18, the better.

the problem as i see it is that religious leaders, like politicians, focus on their most extreme opponents. so instead of having a dialogue with folks like me, who support a law requiring parental consent for women under 18 seeking an abortion or a law requiring a woman to inform her husband, they construct their arguments against the extremists who want the woman in question and only that woman to make that choice.

of course people on the left do the same thing by only focusing on religious people that blow up clinics instead of level headed religious leaders that dont advocate violence.

its has to do with responsibility. like drinking. so hopefully, one day news organizations will stop asking the crazies on both sides what they think and start ignoring them in favor of sane people. and then political action might follow.

By: Charlie Wallace

Charlie Wallace — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:04:33 +0000

I fear that some of the laws presently active do not help a young woman who has become pregnant. For instance, a 14-year old girl, by law, does not need her parent’s consent to have an abortion. Her parents should be the first people that she should be able to go to in such a scary and frightening time. Instead, because her parents do not legally have to be involved in the process, a scared girl, perhaps expecting the worst in her parents’ reaction, can choose to go to Planned Parenthood where she will oftentimes receive only one side of the options.

Again, a girl should be able to go to her parents and/or her church in a situation like this and not be given a scarlet letter, but, instead, be given support and help that would enable her come to terms with her situation. Unfortunately, many young girls do not feel that their church is sufficient to help her in this time of crisis. This is party the church’s fault, the family’s fault, and the culture’s fault.