Born-again Christians who support legal abortion

Anne Linstatter being interviewed on Ask a Christian

Share this YouTube video with any Christians you know who may be anti-abortion.  It's also on the Facebook page Ask a Christian (Sept. 30).

Let them know that some seriously committed Christians see God as respecting a woman's decision on whether to complete a pregnancy that she and her partner cannot cope with.

A woman may choose to give that little potential human back to God rather than bring him or her into a situation of conflict, stress, hunger, and even abuse or death.  

The women in my book prayed about what to do and came to a decision with a sense of God's permission, sometimes with the support of their priest or pastor.

God may approve and understand a woman's choice--often made with her husband in a marriage where there are already two or more children. 

Fifty-nine percent of abortion patients in 2014 had had at least one previous birth--Guttmacher Institute.

A report on NPR said that about 70% of the women seeking abortions in Texas this year already have two or more children.  The family cannot afford to raise another child, either financially or emotionally.  Children require a lot of time and loving care.  One more child can cause a fragile situation to fall apart.

In this video Amie Regester of Ask a Christian @askaChristianfriend interviews me on the book I edited: Abortion--My Choice, God's Grace: Christian Women Tell Their Stories (Pasadena CA: Hope Publishing House, 1994).  Scroll down to September 30.

To Christians who stress the sanctity of life, I make several points in this 40-minute interview:

• Respect women.  Respect pregnancy, birth, and raising a child for the difficult work it is.  Respect a woman's decision that she can't give up for adoption a child who carries her genes and whom she has carried in her womb for nine months.  Women who choose abortion respect life and understand how hard it is to bring another human being into a happy life.
• Put the burden of birth control on men.  Encourage fathers to get vasectomies.  If you truly respect life, pay each man $10,000 to get a vasectomy--don't pay that to someone who accuses a woman of having an abortion.
• Take reproductive choice away from men who commit murder or rape.  They don't deserve to create life.  Cut off their balls.  They have not respected life.
• The government should not tell a woman she has to complete a pregnancy she did not seek.  Will forced pregnancy produce a loving mother?  Will the child be unloved?  Will the father love and support a child he didn't want?  Is it respectful of life to force a child into a miserable situation?

My book is available from Amazon or from me, and it's in many libraries.  It's also free on the Kindle app.

On the wall behind me is a poster with the words of Rabbi Moses Sofer, who died in 1839: "No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself."  This was his conclusion after studying the Torah, especially the one Bible passage that mentions miscarriage (Exodus 21:22-25).