Being Pro-Life

I am pro-life.

I think sometimes we forget about what that means. It doesn't just mean that I'm against abortion. It means that I am for the very cause of life, in every way possible. Whether it be for a baby who has yet to be born, or a terrorist who has caused untold pain and suffering to countless people.

I find myself disgusted by some of my fellow countrymen and women this week. This past Sunday, President Obama went live and informed America that the "enemy" that we have been so untiredly seeking, Osama bin Laden, had been killed, and the "justice" was finally served. And America responded with celebration and jubilee.

Now I'm not defending bin Laden. I'm not saying that the way he lived his life was right. It wasn't. Devoting your life to the killing of innocent people because they are different from you is wrong. And I'm not saying the men who took his life were wrong. I understand that he was killed because of a fire fight, and had the men who were trying to capture actually decided that capturing him alive was what was going to happen, those men's lives may very well have been lost and bin Laden would have escaped to wreak more havoc on the world. But what I am saying is that we should not be so joyful that a man was gunned down.

When I say I'm against abortion, I don't mean I'm against killing a baby in the womb because it has potential to do great things and deserves a chance to live, even though it does. I say I'm against abortion because that baby has a soul that was given to him/her by God and that baby has dignity given to him/her by God and who are we to say that this person no longer has any God given dignity? How are we to pass judgement of that caliber on another person? We cannot.

And if we stand up and profess that God can forgive and believe that God can forgive even the most heinous of crimes, how can we believe we ever truly lose that God given dignity. And if we believe that we cannot truly lose that God given dignity, than how on Earth can we rejoice that another human beign has been killed? Can we feel relieve, can we feel a little safer and can we decide to not mourn? Yes. But does that mean we must rejoice? No. It's tactless. It's undignified. It's un-American.

I am pro-life. I do not rejoice in bin Laden's death. I pray for his soul and for God's mercy upon him. I pray that all of you find the time to offer prayers for him as well.

"Answer them: As I live, says the Lord God, I swear I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, but rather in the wicked man's conversion, that he may live." - Ezekiel 33:11