“Anybody breaks into my house to take what I got, is gonna get some of my prize bullets!” This is a very American statement coming from a good man who would also be glad to invite someone he liked or even loved, to visit his house and come into his home and share with him some of the finest things that he owns. This is a man’s point of view and it is shared by many men.
A woman has a different viewpoint about some other things. Her body, for example is not completely unlike the man’s “house” spoken of just now. And a woman’s body is also capable of being “broken into”. Some of these people may be welcomed with open arms, and loved and treasured and showered with the finest “gifts” that she has to offer. Others may be intruders, not invited in, not welcomed. And this choice or hers, just like that of the man spoken of above, is not up to ANY government OR religion to make – it is her private choice. Maybe this break-in will take not just her material possessions, but also her job, perhaps it will seriously impact the lives of her other children. Perhaps she was broken into in a moment of seduction or perhaps it was an act of force, and the person who did that may well pay a price for his actions but it will be far less the price paid by his victim.
And you might say, “Perhaps it will all work out and the new child will grow up and be a fine person”. Perhaps. It may well be different though, not only for the new child but for its siblings. The point is that each of us has an obligation to try to plan our lives and provide for our children. And to say “Treat it as if the unwanted child was a gift from God”, would make no more sense than for the man who spoke in the first paragraph above, to take an intruder who broke into his home as a “gift from God” and to feed the intruder and show him where his great treasures are hidden, to protect him, to provide him medical care and education for the next 20 or so years – and why? Because God intended for the thief to break in to his house?
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