Don't Cede the High Ground
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- Name: Stan Guthrie
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Stan Guthrie is an editor at large for Christianity Today magazine. His latest book, All that Jesus Asks: How His Questions Can Teach and Transform Us, is scheduled for November release from Baker. He is author of Missions in the Third Millennium: 21 Key Trends for the 21st Century. Stan writes the monthly "Priorities" column for BreakPoint.org. Besides authoring, writing, and editing books, Stan is a literary agent, bringing together good authors, good books, and good publishers. Stan has appeared on National Public Radio's "Tell Me More," WGN's Milt Rosenberg program, and many Christian shows, including Moody Radio's "Prime Time Florida." He is a weekly guest on "New Day Florida." An inspirational speaker, he hosts a weekly podcast with John Wilson of Books & Culture. He also is an author and editorial advisor for ChristianBibleStudies.com. A former columnist for CT, Stan served as moderator for the Christian Book Expo panel discussion, "Does the God of Christianity Exist, and What Difference Does It Make?" Stan is married to Christine, and they have three children and live in the Chicago area.
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I am old enough to remember that the earliest rationalizations I heard about abortion, in the time surrounding Roe v. Wade, centered on the terrible life that the unwanted child would lead: poverty, lack of love, perhaps even abuse, etc. This was an attempt to reconcile the conflict between what the mother wanted and what the unborn child would want: The child would not want to live that life anyway! Numerous testimonies by adults who were born into terrible circumstances, but who were very happy with their lives today, exploded this defense. The pro-abortion movement moved on to its second phase, in which the mother was the sole focus and the trick was to make the unborn child a non-entity, leaving no conflicts to reconcile.
It seems that the post-abortion depression assault on abortion "rights" is the analogue to the earliest defenses of abortion. The mother doesn't really want to do this, because she will be depressed and feel guilty later. So, there is no conflict between the best interests of mother and child!
The problem is that we overestimate the conscience of our fellow citizens. Many people in this world will "dispose" of a human "problem" and feel little or no guilt. At that point, we will have to face the fact that there really is a difference between what the mother wants and what the child wants.
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