Medics Abortion Aversion: Tide Is Turning

The national newspapers have featured a series of stories in recent weeks about the growing number of doctors who are refusing to carry out and refer patients for abortions. It’s a significant revelation, given that for decades, leading doctors and professors have tried to argue that an embryo is only a potential life and not a human person.

In the same vain, I was surprised, when talking to a young person not long ago, that the topic of euthanasia and abortion fell into the conversation. Of the latter, I expected, given this person’s young age, that they’d take a fervent pro-choice stance. Instead, they displayed a simple and clear appreciation that abortion was a great wrong and should be discouraged; “it was no easy way out,” they said. (I hope and pray they weren’t speaking from experience.)

Whether medics or young people, the tide of thought in relation to abortion, seems to be turning.

It’s not the purpose of this blog to preach, but to raise issues, themes and concerns, for people to examine and reflect on for themselves. However, abortion is an issue those behind Life4seekers feel passionately. From the moment of conception until natural death, all life is sacred. Whatever the circumstances, life can not be terminated by men and women. Only God can decide the moment of a person’s death.

That is not to say, that we shouldn’t show immense sensitivity to those affected by an unwanted pregnancy or struggling with a debilitating disease. Society has a moral duty to try to support people in desperate and often painful situations. We must display compassion and offer every support, upholding the truth that no one is in a position to take a human life (even if the person themselves wishes to die).

Love is the answer. It is a reality that can overcome every hurt, fear, tragedy, pain and suffering. Society doesn’t need the medical profession to provide life-ending procedures to solve our problems. Society needs more people to show and give those in need, unconditional love and forgiveness, so that those affected by abortion or serious illnesses, are given the strength to accept and carry their burdens with our help.

But being realistic, where can unconditional love and mercy be found? I don’t possess it, do you? The only place that I have found it is in the person of Jesus Christ.

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