On Life
While I don't say much about it, I am in what is called the "Pro Life" camp on the abortion issue. I agree with Dietrich Bonhoeffer when he says in a quote I found in the latest
Notes for Life from the LCMS:
Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics. Edited by Eberhard Bethge (New York: Macmillion, 1965): 175-176.
To tell the truth, I don't like the "Pro Life" label. It's far too polite. This is not the sort of issue that calls for politeness, there are not two sides that are both reasonable. One side is for murdering children and I'm against murder, which is what abortion most certainly is.