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What is Life? (Originally Published 12/7/2022)
- Catherine Bott
- Jan 14
- 3 min read
On my way to order some goodies for a party at the local pastry shop across the street from my office, a twenty-five-ish year-old man aggressively approached me with the question, “Could I talk to you about abortion?” Seriously?
First of all, I often give thanks that I never had to visit that issue in my life. You might say I am in the middle of the spectrum on the subject of abortion. I pride myself on removing spiders and wasps from inside my house instead of swatting them dead in an effort to honor the sixth commandment, spelled out in the Bible’s Old Testament books, Exodus, and Deuteronomy; thou shall not murder.
However, I have at least three friends who had abortions over the years and I supported their decisions although I wouldn’t want to have to deal with the karma or emotional issues that women who have had abortions face. I also have 2 friends who birthed children and put them up for adoption. Both also harbored emotional traffic over their decisions. Perhaps the answer is to keep one’s knees together at all times unless motherhood is the agenda. We all know that ain’t happening.
A man wanting to talk abortion with a post-menopausal woman on a street corner in front of a pastry shop. What’s the point? It occurred to me at that moment (so I voiced it), “You know, you wouldn’t be here if your mother got an abortion,” to which he replied “well at least I wouldn’t know about it.” Frankly I was shocked! Again – debating abortion on the street – with a man. Disgusting.
The idea of someone having to decide on an abortion is quite possibly one of the highest intimate moments with God one could possibly visit in a lifetime. Everyone is taught, “thou shall not kill” regardless of religious tradition. To violate such a clear-cut command takes one on a lifelong journey and should not be taken lightly.
Women are going to get abortions. Always have, always will. Abortions are a matter of choice. That being said, I believe that there should be safe opportunities for the obtaining of an abortion with critical limits on the time after conception that a fetus (complete with a form of human consciousness from the moment egg and sperm meet) can be removed.
My street-corner-abortion encounter shook me in my tracks! Why are people investing time to “push” abortions? Don’t they have anything else to do that might bring more light, instead of darkness to the planet? When my tête-à-tête occurred and the young man responded “well at least I won’t know about it” I retorted that the cells, atoms, and organs of your body have a consciousness from the moment of conception. How do you think those body building ingredients create the finite details of who you become?
I still don’t have a clear answer in my mind about my position on abortion but this I know for sure – abortion, the removal of a living entity from its mother before an individualized spirit enters it is NOT a casual topic to be discussed with a strange man on a street corner.
May your heart be touched in such a way as to bring light to this topic for all the world to experience.
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