Babies

I love babies. I love love love babies!! If you know me you know that I find great joy in the birth of babies and I am experiencing a ‘birth explosion” right now among many of my daughters’ friends. So many of them have been having babies in the past couple of years! It’s such an amazing time! They are at a place in their lives when having babies and creating new families is happening – and watching this phase of life puts a huge smile on my face.

These are such loved babies. Wanted babies. Babies born into situations where parents and grandparents will give them everything they will need for a wonderful life ahead.

It’s interesting that I watch this happening among so many of my daughters’ friends right now as I sit here and also watch the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision leak, and the worry of it being overturned. My Facebook posts are equally pics of adorable new babies and posts about women losing their freedom of choice.

I wonder. My daughters’ friends are really good people but I bet that one or more of them had to make a pregnancy decision at some point in their past. And, I can guarantee it was not an easy decision. I am sure that if an abortion was the outcome that it is something that will never be forgotten. It was not a whimsically choice. It was done with a heavy heart. With some fear. But it was their choice. Done in privacy. Safely.

I believe an abortion is never easy for a woman – emotionally, spiritually, and physically. Let me repeat: It’s never easy.

But I believe it is the right thing to have abortion as a choice.

I am a deeply religious person. I am a Christian and I try to live thinking ‘what would Jesus do’ when it comes to the hard realities we all have to face. First I know that God loves all mothers, and that God is a compassionate God. I know that God gives people free will, and with that comes making mistakes large and small. I also know men are involved in making babies but they are never considered in the abortion issue.

I know that God is so much ‘more’ than us, not limited to time or place. God knows each unique soul. Every single one – and that alone is hard to comprehend. But God does. God does not wait for a ‘start date’. He doesn’t say it takes so many cells to multiply in a woman’s womb before becoming a being, before having a soul. God also doesn’t have an end date for a soul either. Accidents happen to children. Young adults die from drugs. Suicide. Others die too young from cancer and other diseases. We can’t box God in. We should not think we KNOW how God thinks – or what he sees in the heart of someone suffering. God loves – God is compassionate.

Here in the United States we have had an upsurge of trying to legislate religion. We are seeing a group (dare I say mostly white ones?) trying to make all Americans like them. They have an attitude of thinking “I know what is best.” They are confusing discipleship with being authoritative, speaking as if they are God – or have a better pipeline to Him.

It’s really quite sad because they don’t seem to allow God to be God. And, they don’t seem to be able to follow the greatest message of all which is to love your neighbor as yourself.

But – back to our Supreme Court right now. I believe that the court should stay out of a woman’s decision on this. It is a decision to be made with a medical doctor, a counselor, perhaps a leader of their faith Oh – .and with the man involved if that is possible. Remember he was there too!?! And it should be private and done with dignity.

Remember…

God knows each soul – if it only lived in a uterus. Or if it grew to an old age. God knows people get hurt and make hard decisions. God listens to repentance. God is God.

We are not God.