hazy_reflection | (no subject)

The scenario: An extremely spiritual--in the one god, god of the Israelites type of spirituality--woman has made a mistake and "sinned", having slept with her boyfriend, and is now pregnant.

She figures she has two options.

Option One: Get an abortion. This completely goes against everything she's been raised with. Pro-choice or pro-life, it doesn't matter. Blind faith tells her that it's wrong and that it's not really an option.

Option Two: Go through with the pregnancy and give the baby up for adoption. Either way, she'd lose the child because she knows she doesn't have the lifestyle that can afford a child, but she wants what's best for the child, which would be an adopted life.

She makes a choice, but it's neither of the options she's figured. So she prays. She asks God to take this baby from her, because she made a mistake and it's not her place to push this child into a life it doesn't deserve. It's not right to force the child into a life of hardships and difficulties, which is just what it might get if she puts it up for adoption. It might not even get adopted. It might grow older and be put into the child care system, thrown from foster care home to home. But if she aborted the baby, it wouldn't be her right to kill it. Murder it. So she asks God to take it from her, to save it from a life that it didn't deserve. Is she right? A child is a special gift. Children deserve the best from a parent.

Is it the Ultimate Sacrifice or the Ultimate Act of Selfishness?

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Bah. It isn't Ultimate anything. It's momentary. Just her one little life. One tear in the bucket. Sacrifice or selfishness, it isn't monumental. She needs to get over herself. And at least schedule the abortion, 'cause if she's counting on God for a miraculous save from a situation of her own making, in the words of the immortal Malcolm Reynolds, "that's a long wait for a train don't come".

Thanks for the input. More food for thought. Yay.