This is so very frustrating! It is just what I knew would happen if Trump was elected! I am so beyond sad, mad, and afraid!! I have friends in that group who are now celebrating “no more killing babies!” who are not even thinking through the implications of this overturn to women for whom abortion is a medical necessity. These people who are my friends are kind, loving people who have been hoodwinked and they do not even realize it! If they would just realize that a woman choosing to have a perfectly healthy baby is something to celebrate, but a woman being forced to continue a life threatening pregnancy is never something to celebrate!!
My heart hurts and I have no idea what I can do to help this country or even to help myself feel like getting out of bed! The sadness is crippling!
Well said! I'm not only sad, I'm also furious and disgusted by so-called Christians. I am ashamed to be a Christian myself, and across history, Christians have done abhorrent things when they have power (e.g. the crusades, killing people who won't convert, manifest destiny, etc). We can say "oh but we're not that kind of Christian. We actually follow Jesus", but until we can change the state of things, and silence those of us who shout the loudest (despite being the most wrong), we are just as complicit.
I am sad for womem who will spend a lot of money travelling to other states for abortion, I am so sad for women who have unwanted pregnancies, but I am not so sad for potential human lives getting the right to live. This decision must surely be at least a victory for them.
I have a friend who is avidly pro-choice and a constitutional law scholar, J.D. & Ph.D. in political science, who thinks Roe was bad law. He’s not happy today, but neither was he happy with Roe. And he’s not the only pro-choice constitutional scholar who questions the constitutional basis of Roe. The problem, as he explained it to me, is that no federal statute exists protecting the right to choose, which would completely change the terms of the debate. The Court would then have to overrule a federal statute, something far different than overruling its own precedent. Of course, a constitutional amendment would be best, but that’s virtually impossible, at least right now. Ironically, if you want to protect the right to choose, the Bible may provide a far stronger basis than Roe. I’m not going to get into all the X’s and O’s, but Exodus 21:22-23 and Numbers 5:11-31 can be read as protecting the right to choose, especially if one considers the LXX to be the better reading for the Exodus passage than the Masoretic Text, as advocated for by Hebrew Bible scholar T. F. McDaniel of Palmer Seminary (https://tmcdaniel.palmerseminary.edu/LXX_EXO_%2021_22-23.pdf), also cf., Timothy Michael Law, _When God Spoke Greek_, who advocates for the same thing as McDaniel in more general terms. So, while Roe may be an insecure basis for pro-choice, the Bible may do the trick!
This is so very frustrating! It is just what I knew would happen if Trump was elected! I am so beyond sad, mad, and afraid!! I have friends in that group who are now celebrating “no more killing babies!” who are not even thinking through the implications of this overturn to women for whom abortion is a medical necessity. These people who are my friends are kind, loving people who have been hoodwinked and they do not even realize it! If they would just realize that a woman choosing to have a perfectly healthy baby is something to celebrate, but a woman being forced to continue a life threatening pregnancy is never something to celebrate!!
My heart hurts and I have no idea what I can do to help this country or even to help myself feel like getting out of bed! The sadness is crippling!
Well said! I'm not only sad, I'm also furious and disgusted by so-called Christians. I am ashamed to be a Christian myself, and across history, Christians have done abhorrent things when they have power (e.g. the crusades, killing people who won't convert, manifest destiny, etc). We can say "oh but we're not that kind of Christian. We actually follow Jesus", but until we can change the state of things, and silence those of us who shout the loudest (despite being the most wrong), we are just as complicit.
I am sad for womem who will spend a lot of money travelling to other states for abortion, I am so sad for women who have unwanted pregnancies, but I am not so sad for potential human lives getting the right to live. This decision must surely be at least a victory for them.
I have a friend who is avidly pro-choice and a constitutional law scholar, J.D. & Ph.D. in political science, who thinks Roe was bad law. He’s not happy today, but neither was he happy with Roe. And he’s not the only pro-choice constitutional scholar who questions the constitutional basis of Roe. The problem, as he explained it to me, is that no federal statute exists protecting the right to choose, which would completely change the terms of the debate. The Court would then have to overrule a federal statute, something far different than overruling its own precedent. Of course, a constitutional amendment would be best, but that’s virtually impossible, at least right now. Ironically, if you want to protect the right to choose, the Bible may provide a far stronger basis than Roe. I’m not going to get into all the X’s and O’s, but Exodus 21:22-23 and Numbers 5:11-31 can be read as protecting the right to choose, especially if one considers the LXX to be the better reading for the Exodus passage than the Masoretic Text, as advocated for by Hebrew Bible scholar T. F. McDaniel of Palmer Seminary (https://tmcdaniel.palmerseminary.edu/LXX_EXO_%2021_22-23.pdf), also cf., Timothy Michael Law, _When God Spoke Greek_, who advocates for the same thing as McDaniel in more general terms. So, while Roe may be an insecure basis for pro-choice, the Bible may do the trick!