Several days ago as I was scrolling through my Facebook
feed, I saw a meme on a friend’s timeline about people being against stem cell
research, gay marriage, and abortion. The idea was that no one could come up
with non-biblical objections. I looked at it and thought, I don’t know anything
about stem cell research, but I could come up with non-biblical objections to
gay marriage and abortion. Then I moved on. Partly because I wasn’t sure I was
ready to tackle that and partly because I wanted to see what else was going on
in my friends’ lives. I couldn’t get it out of my mind though. So I went back
to my friend’s timeline to look for it. After scrolling through the prior six
days posts and not finding it, I decided I’d have to answer it here.
I’ll start with gay marriage. When you look at the way men
and women are made, it’s pretty obvious (to me, anyway) that their bodies are
meant to fit together. A man has a penis which fits nicely into a woman’s
vagina. However, if two men come together, there is no natural place for them
to insert their penis. They have to use the anus, which was not meant for that.
Not only that, but to use the anus you must use some kind of lubricant as the
body will not produce its own for that purpose.
If two women come together, they have their vaginas, but no
penis to insert into either. For them to have any kind of sex life, they must
use their hands, mouths, or toys designed for that purpose.
The physical builds of the two genders alone tell me that
two people of the same sex should not marry.
There is one more reason though – children. If a gay couple
want children, they must seek outside help. They must either adopt, hire a
surrogate mother or in the case of two women, one or both could use a sperm
donor’s sperm to get pregnant. There is no way for two people of the same
gender to get one another pregnant.
This brings me to the subject of abortion. I’ve heard for a
long time that it’s a woman’s body, therefore it should be her choice. I’ve
never understood that. Especially since as I mentioned above, it takes two
people, a man and a woman to get a
woman pregnant. So, the baby is comprised of DNA from two people, not just one. Not only that, the baby only occupies a
woman’s body for approximately 9 months. It’s not like a cancer that will
eventually kill you. It’s another human being comprised of DNA from two people, not just one.
I did ask someone once, how it was “a woman’s body when it
takes a man to get her pregnant.” She refused to answer at first because I’m
clearly a Christian. I told her that I hadn’t mentioned the Bible: I’d simply
asked a question. She told me it was too complicated to explain.
I know, you’re probably asking, “what if the couple used
birth control and still got pregnant?” Well, we all know that birth control is
not 100% guaranteed, unless a man has a vasectomy or a woman has a
hysterectomy. A woman getting her tubes, “cut, tied, and fried” as one friend
of mine used to say, isn’t an absolute guarantee. I’ve heard that in rare
cases, the body heals the tubes or grows new ones. As for the pill, I’ve
personally known two women who got pregnant while on it. Condoms, sponges,
contraceptive jelly, and diaphragms can all fail. If you have sex, even with
birth control, there’s always a risk of getting pregnant. It only takes one
sperm getting through.
I also think that abortion for the sake of convenience to
the woman, is ultimately selfish. You
may not want the baby, but there are hundreds, if not thousands of couples who
can’t have children on their own and would love to have an infant. They would
gladly adopt the unwanted babies that so many people abort.
There are however, two reasons for which I do understand getting an abortion. The first would be medical. If the mother’s life is in danger
because of the pregnancy or if the baby won’t survive.
If the baby isn’t going to live, then I don’t think a woman
should be forced to carry it till it dies.
Here’s a link to a story about a woman whose child wasn’t
going to survive: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/07/the-hardest-abortion-i-ve-ever-had-to-perform.html
I also read a story recently in which a woman was forced to
carry her baby till it died, because she was more than 14 weeks pregnant. If a
doctor can tell a woman with certainty that her baby isn’t going to survive outside the womb,
then I think the decision about what to do, should be up to her.
The other situation in which I can understand having an
abortion is rape. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, but it happens and in some
cases a woman gets pregnant as a result. In that case, I can certainly
understand and accept it if a woman wants an abortion. I would hope, however,
that she would carry the baby to term and if she doesn’t want it, give it up
for adoption. It would be a way to have something wonderful come from something
awful.
So, for those of you seeking non-biblical answers to these
questions, those are my answers.
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