Justice Ride Conversations, Part 2: You Don't Have to Be a Christian to Be Against Abortion, But...

For part 2 (and maybe parts 3, 4, etc.), I thought I'd take a short quote and provide my thoughts on it.  (See part 1 to this series here.)

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A male student declined a brochure, saying, “I’m not a Christian, sorry.”

This is a favorite topic of mine, recently: you don't have to be a Christian to be against abortion, simply on the basis of human rights.

This is just plain ol' science, that preborn children are human beings from the moment of fertilization.

This is just plain ol' logic, that if we differ from each other in the same ways that we differ from the preborn, and yet our value doesn't change based on our differences, neither does the preborn's value change based on their differences.  (Hello, SLED, my favorite pro-life apologetics tool.)

However, Christianity provides the only reasoning for why humans have value in the first place.  People of all backgrounds and religions can agree that humans are different than animals; nay, not only different, but more special, more important.  But why?

The beauty of Christianity is that we are not just clumps of cells.  (We are all clumps of cells, no matter how old we are.)  God purposefully made us different when He created us in His very likeness.  We are not more important than animals because we can think and talk and plan and dream; we are more important because He made us in His image.  He bestowed that gift to every being possessing human DNA.

Humans are the ones God chose to reflect Him, the ones on whom He places special love, the ones for whom Christ died.  How special!  How amazing!

Apart from Christianity, there is no solid reason to see humans as any more special than animals, and that applies to people of all ages, but I'm thankful that most people do realize in some way that humans are more special, and I just ask that they apply that to people of all ages, down to the very youngest of us.

Also, why would someone be so un-curious that they would refuse a piece of literature about so interesting a subject as abortion just because they may not agree with it?

Partially kidding; I understand that some people just don't want to hold another piece of paper or have another piece of clutter in their stuff especially on a subject they don't care about, but personally, I'm always curious to learn more about what other people believe, especially if it comes in a free, short, easy-to-read, practically-handed-to-me-on-a-silver-platter format!