God is Pro Choice: One Christian Woman's Belief

How many Pro Choice advocates believe that the God of Christianity is not Pro-Choice? How sad this perception, at least to me. It could not be further from the truth of the God I know, the God of the Bible.

Now I'm no theologian and I do not seek to put words in the mouth of my God, but I do hope to share my perspective based on what I know of our Creator. I hope you will hear me out.

First of all, the God I know is a God of free will. Notice that He does not demand that people love Him or accept Him. He loves us first and allows us to make the choice to accept that love and to love Him back. Now that's Pro-Choice.

Next, God also does not demand that we have children. Yes, he wants us as a people to "be fruitful and multiple" and He tells us that we should value and cherish our children as the blessings they are. But does that mean He demands that we have babies when we are babies ourselves, too young to properly raise them, or when we aren't ready or when we just don't even want them? That would certainly not be Pro Choice.

But I don't believe He makes any such demand. In fact, the way I see it, He has proven himself to be Pro Choice in that He has very plainly left that choice up to us ... By creating us in such a way that we cannot reproduce simply by holding hands or sharing a straw or sitting close on the couch with someone of the opposite sex. Yes, except in the most extreme and unfortunate and statistically infrequent of cases (Only 1% of the pregnancies ending in abortion each year are a result of rape or incest (Alan Guttmacher Institute, et al)), getting pregnant IS a choice and one that we have already made if there is a new life growing in our womb. We need only exercise our own free will and make the choice ... to control our own bodies, our own actions, our own passions ... to exercise choice. That is how God made us. And that is Pro-Choice.

So yes, I believe God is Pro-Choice, but once we have made a poor one, I do not believe God suddenly becomes Pro-Abortion. I believe it's clear He meant for us to have the choice of when we would have a child. I believe He made it equally clear that we could not simply destroy that child if we acted irresponsibly and wanted to avoid the consequences. I believe He is Pro-Choice as per the true meaning of those words, NOT the deceptive words of those who seek to distort language to play with our minds or to sooth the misgivings of those who might not feel comfortable with a more accurate description of the practice. That is not Pro-Choice, it is Pro-Abortion.

But yes, I believe God is Pro-Life. While it is clear He is "Pro-Choice" in the sense that he gave us a choice as to what we could do with our own bodies by giving us free will, He also told us "Thou Shalt Not Kill", a commandment He felt so strongly about He wrote it himself in stone. I believe God created each of us in our mother's womb, that He knows every hair on our heads, and about every day of our lives, before we are even born. I believe He loves us, each of us, even before we have traveled those few inches from the safety and security of our mother's womb to our mother's loving arms, whether those arms are those of our birth mother or our adopted mother.

And finally, I believe God is a God of forgiveness. I believe He made a way that we can be forgiven and restored to Him ... Even if we forget that we are loved; even if we disregard that we are free to choose and strong enough to make the right choice so we don't create a life we are not prepared to embrace; even if, at some time in our lives, we were, perhaps, deceived or hardened or blinded to the fact that the child that grew inside of us was no less valuable, no less loved by the God of the universe than we are. I believe He loves us so much that He can even forgive us if we fall for the twisted deception of what we know as "Pro-Choice". I believe He will forgive us our every sin if only we will truly repent, for there is "now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus". And that is the miracle of God's love.