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he means cynicism the opposite of biblical hope the total disregard for survivors of sexual assault in white evangelical churches there s no lack of evidence for this cultural trend the opposite of biblical care the total willingness to put their own identity politics at the front at the expense of literally everyone else s the opposite of the gospel call to be a church of all peoples to reach across and learn to care for your opposite there is so much about the whole situation that twists my stomach in knots but i don t have a compelling story about sexual assault to share thank god though i ve been groped and flashed like every woman i know but i can be brave about my stance on abortion because if ever there was an urgent moment to defend women this feels like it i know a lot of abortion opposers and since i was one myself for several years i can already hear the justification but this is to stop a genocide what can be more urgent and important and morally imperative than that i m going to challenge the scriptural authority of that position because if you re willing to sacrifice every other christian value to defend the unborn then i think you ve made abortion an idol first we can only say genocide if we re talking about people i m not going to argue about when life begins because it s not the premise of my position but i would like to point out that theologians across the ages have disagreed on this count there are biblical suggestions that personhood begins at conception or even before certainly like jeremiah 1 5 there are also biblical precedents for the stance that life begins at breath genesis 2 7 for example for centuries the church believed that life began at quickening or the first time the woman carrying the fetus can feel it moving around 18 weeks again my argument doesn t rest on a specific moment at which life begins so i m not going to argue about it i m just pointing out that loving and devout and faithful and thoughtful and reasonable and well meant people have come to different conclusions about this so any claim to have the whole truth about it seems flimsy suspect and dishonest to me second before i get to my actual arguments i d like to remind everyone that the bible does not actually mention abortion not once not in the old testament nor in the new the closest it comes is exodus 21 22 25 22 and if men strive together and hurt a woman with child so that her fruit depart and yet no harm follow he shall be surely fined according as the woman s husband shall lay upon him and he shall pay as the judges determine 23 but if any harm follow then thou shalt give life for life 24 eye for eye tooth for tooth hand for hand foot for foot 25 burning for burning wound for wound stripe for stripe i ve seen articles arguing this passage both ways regarding fetal personhood does the passage establish that fetuses are not full people because the party is only fined for damage or does it establish that fetuses are full people because if harm follow it is treated with the life for life standard the debate hangs over whether if any harm follow refers only to the wife or also to her unborn child does her fruit depart mean a miscarriage or a premature birth which nonetheless results in a living child many translations will happily make this choice for you which is why i went back to the king james again fetal personhood is not part of my argument so i m not going to discuss it at length just pointing out again that well read and well meant people disagree about the meaning of this passage but this passage is still not about abortion abortion is when a woman chooses not to carry a child to term in her own body in the exodus 21 scenario it was someone else who accidentally caused the injury or death of the fetus so it was not a woman choosing what happens in her body so the bible doesn t mention abortion at all which is significant because other ancient texts do for example the laws of middle assyria 14th century bc roughly contemporary with the pentateuch you punish a woman with impalement and no burial for causing her own miscarriage if she dies from the abortion her body is still to be impaled and not buried to make an example for all the other women it s notable that the same texts give the father permission to commit infanticide if the baby is defective in some way disabled disfigured female etc so the abortion law wasn t about protecting life so much as it was about protecting a man s right to make all the family planning decisions in his household so the next door neighbors of the ancient israelites had very strong feelings about abortion but when moses went up on mt sinai the god of the hebrews who had a lot to say in general about separating his people from the detestable ways of their neighbors chose to remain silent on abortion he had reams to say about clothing and fibers and food but nothing on abortion that s worth saying one more time for emphasis god had every chance to condemn abortion and chose to remain silent the roman empire into which jesus was born practiced abortion regularly at all levels of society and had no laws against it jesus has nothing to say about it neither does paul neither do any of the other gospel writers but they do have an extraordinary amount to say about women jesus especially is radically pro woman he both allows and defends mary s choice to sit at his feet a position the feet of the rabbi reserved only for men at that time he interrupts an urgent mission on behalf of an important man jairus to heal not only the body but also the shame of a woman who has been untouchable for 12 years because of her reproductive health he gives to women the honor of bearing first witness to his resurrection when women s testimony was not considered trustworthy enough to be valid in court believewomen trustwomen so jesus cares deeply about the equality and dignity of women there s so much more to be said about this but i ll leave just those three examples for now or i ll never get to the crux of my actual argument which is this even when you consider a fetus a life there is no getting around the fact that it s not an independent life it is a life dependent on the body of another a fetus requires the willing or unwilling donation of that person s uterus blood supply oxygenation nutrition and immune activity if this natural life support is removed the fetus cannot survive it so happens that modern medicine has created another scenario in which life and death decisions are made around the use of another person s organs living organ donation this is when your cousin gives you a kidney or your twin donates a lobe of liver an organ or part of an organ is donated and both parties in the best scenario live donating an organ requires some preliminary testing six weeks to recover and has a very low rate of complication for the donor and it happens that this is a process that is available to both women and men so let s look at how we talk to men about the urgent imperative of giving their bodies to bring life to others here is the list of questions offered by the american transplant foundation for consideration before making yourself available for organ donation am i intellectually ready have you spoken with your primary care physician and researched information regarding living donation do you understand the risks involved in this major medical procedure am i emotionally ready have you emotionally prepared yourself for living donation and do you fully understand the possibility that the procedure may not be successful or could even be harmful are you ready to live with less than your usual full system of organs are you prepared to find out that you may not be a match or be healthy enough to donate do you understand that the testing evaluation process could potentially uncover health conditions that were unknown to you before you considered donation am i physically ready are you in good physical shape so that you may be able to withstand a major surgery do you have a healthy organ to donate will your body be able to live with less than your full complement of organs am i financially ready have you thought through all of your financial responsibilities financial responsibilities to think about while you are being tested in the hospital for surgery and away from work while you recover are savings work requirements travel expenses time off of work paid time off vacation sick days short term disability etc follow up care lost wages family dependents pets future obligations insurance bills monthly expenses etc do you have insurance protection in the event that complications arise during or after your surgery am i spiritually ready are you driven to donate by the right motives good heavens can you imagine if we spoke to pregnant women with such deference have you discussed with your physician the realities of pregnancy childbirth and post partem recovery do you understand the risks and potential complications including death inherent in this major medical event have you emotionally prepared yourself for the realities of pregnancy and childbirth and do you fully understand the possibility that this process may be arduous and painful and still not successful are you prepared to spend the better part of a year physically impaired and unable to perform certain tasks up to your previous standard are you prepared to find out partway through this process that you may be unable to carry the child to term or it may be unable to sustain its own life upon birth are you prepared to potentially discover previously overlooked medical problems over the course of prenatal testing are you prepared for the risk that you may have enduring life long changes to your body as a result of going through this process are you prepared for the risk of death especially since the us is ranked among the worst in the west for maternal morbidity have you thought through all of your financial responsibilities how will carrying delivering and maybe rearing this child affect your spouse your other children your aging parents or other dependents can you take the time from work for prenatal appointments childbirth and the optimum recommended post partum recovery time minimum six weeks are you financially prepared for the possibility of complications to the pregnancy and weeks or months off work for bed rest do you have insurance are you driven to carry this child to term by the right motives i mean really what are they playing at nobody talks to pregnant women that way that s not the standard of discourse when there are innocent lives at stake none of those people waiting for transplants asked to be put in that position none of them chose to be sick where is the mandatory registration as a living donor the regulated blood typing the hand wringing over people who are selfish and irresponsible and fail to sign up when people are dying every year waiting for a transplant where s the moral outrage you d think people were allowed to decide how much of their body they were willing to sacrifice for another person or something like people were people and not donor organ incubators with the right and ability to make wise choices for their lives lives which had value outside of their bodies potential to bring life you see where i m going with this in the words of possibly gloria steinem or possibly florynce kennedy or possibly an anonymous irish lady taxi driver from boston if men could get pregnant abortion would be a sacrament when we take the issue of offering portions of your body in sacrifice out of the context of gender it s very easy to see how deferentially we treat the decision and we never presume to infringe on the rights of another person to tell them what they must and must not volunteer to endure for another we hope that they will make the generous decision but we recognize that they have choice so for me the issue is not when life begins but the right of body sovereignty for the woman involved that s why the position is called pro choice not pro abortion i nearly died in childbirth the first time around twice first by seizure then by hemolysis which makes every subsequent pregnancy high risk i love my two children i love them so much i would fight for them to my grave and if i were pregnant with a third who was deemed incompatible with life i would like to have the freedom to choose if we as a family felt it was best to end that life early thus sparing my first two children the risk of being motherless for a sibling who wouldn t live anyway sound like a special circumstance that s because every abortion is a special circumstance i m sure it s abused by some and that s a tragedy for the fetus just like people dying on the transplant list is a tragedy but not a crime and not shameful but abortion can also be a tender mercy an act of dignity for women in prohibitive circumstances women with cancer or other serious health conditions women with dependent parents or siblings other children with special needs who need a full time caretaker women in desperate financial circumstances and more it s not a perfect analogy i don t expect it to be the last word on abortion even in my own life but i hope you can see how the pro choice position comes from a heart of care for women just as the pro life position comes from a heart of care for the unborn both are vulnerable and historically disposable remember the nameless woman torn limb from limb or lot trying to trade his virgin daughters to a rape mob god cares very deeply about the dignity of women i can t make you believe dr ford though i think you should she was transparent where he was belligerent and evasive but if the fbi investigation returns with evidence that judge kavanaugh engaged in sexual assault at any point in his life and you tell america s daughters my daughters that you care nothing for their safety or sovereignty then i m telling you i think you are sacrificing to a golden calf call your senators thanks for your time 2 comments filed under uncategorized june 5 2018 1 49 pm my whole30 helloooo from the jungles of motherhood it s been a minute this month i did a whole30 and thought i d briefly resurrect the blog and write it up for anyone who s interested i m the queen of tl dr posts so feel free to use the headings to skip around part 1 what is the whole30 and why did i do it part 2 what was it like part 3 results tips recipes part 1 what s a whole30 it s an elimination diet aimed at the foods most likely to be causing you systemic inflammation what i was actually looking for was a way to do a sugar detox that was safe for a breastfeeding mama and i stumbled on the whole30 a bunch of other moms i knew were doing it so i looked at the website and said no way this eliminates everything i enjoy about food the essence of the whole30 is no grains no dairy no legumes including peanuts and soy no added sugar natural or artificial no alcohol no msg carrageenan or sulfates my life is bread and c...