Tuesday, January 27, 2009

I Choose Choice

This was my response to a blog of an acquaintance of mine who writes on Beliefnet.com. The video is a pro-life message involving President Obama.  

My Comment:

Life is an interesting term. It is defined by many in many different ways. Is your definition of life is when two gametes (reproductive cells) fuse to form another cell? [It's not mine.]  Under that definition, I would suggest that than when a cancer cell invades a healthy cell than that is life. And destruction of cancer is not considered murder. I know this simplified, I am trying to be a little scientific and perhaps a little provocative. I also question the condition under which reproductive processes began. Under duress? I'm still not sure what life is, how it is defined, or if we should define it.

As I walked to work this past Thursday, I passed the services being held at the Verizon Center in Washington D.C. prior to the March for Life. Outside, there were signs that read, "We Choose Life!" My first reaction is to really be introspective into the words of that statement. They choose. Pro-life activists choose. As a believer in humanity, I can not take away another persons right to be and act how they wish. I can not tell a women what to do with her body, her womb, her choice. I can only believe that most true-hearted humans would choose to do what is best for them.

The video ends with "Life, Imagine the Potential."  Who's life? Who's potential?  Those are my questions.

1 comment:

Jenn Rogers said...

I also posted a comment with a link to a great blog about this ad. Have you read it?