Every minute of every day men, women, boys and girls are making decisions to do what they want regardless of the laws of the land. People are running stop signs, exceeding speed limits, stealing, embezzling, murdering, raping, assaulting, and so on. Are there laws against these things? Certainly there are, but in and of themselves they do nothing to alter a person’s right to choose. Consequently, the truth of the matter is women, men, boys and girls will always have the right to choose. It is a God-given right, and the government cannot take it away.
Words are important—critically important—and in this abortion battle, close attention must be paid to the words that are used. When it comes to the “right to choose,” abortion supporters use it within the context of a woman’s choice as it relates to her body. They say that a woman should be able to choose what she does with her body. There are bumper stickers and signs that command, “Keep your laws off my body.”
Of course this sounds like a worthy fight, doesn’t it? Who wouldn’t want to defend personal freedoms like what we do with our bodies, especially in America, where freedom is supposedly what makes this nation so great. This so-called battle for a “woman’s right to choose what to do with her body,” however, is merely a smoke-screen to cover the real issue, which is the fight to enable a woman to terminate her child’s life at will with no legal consequence. But no one is going to say that. Who is going to publicly support the murder of a child? So the wording has to be changed to make the act more palatable. Thus, we end up with the fight for the “right to choose.” We must not get caught up in the passion and the rhetoric, but step back and look at the real underlying issues.
The fight is for choice, but not necessarily for what a woman does with her body. It is a fight to choose her consequences also. With every choice or decision, there are results, repercussions, consequences. It’s inherent in the decision. It comes as a package.
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