Woman regrets abortion
By Ron Hunt
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Annie Hubbird was 17 or 18
and unmarried when she had an
abortion.
“At the time I did not have
guilt. It never really bothered me
that much.”
Then she saw pictures of
aborted babies, Hubbird says.
"It shocked me.” Her position
changed to ”1 wouldn't have
another abortion, but it’s every
woman's choice."
Now, after reading and argu
ing about the issue, she is firmly
against abortion.
“It is wrong,” she told
Friday's audience at a Mars Hill
Forum Christian anti-abortion
panel discussion. “There’s no
such thing as a life not worthy to
be lived,” she said, adding that
no one has the right to say when
another’s life should end.
Christians opposed to abor
tion. however, should provide
financial and emotional support
to unwed mothers. "We really
need to search our hearts on
this one," she said.
Compassion and mercy also
should be shown to pro-choice
adherents, Hubbird said. “They
care about people. They're
wrong — dead wrong — but they
I
have compassion," she said.
Children's education, child
abuse, nuclear weapons, care
for the elderly and the poor — all
are areas of concern, she said.
"I don’t think we can say we’re
pro-life if we don’t think about
these other issues."
Pragmatism is the primary
enemy of the pro-life movement,
Hubbird said. She cited Ber
trand Russell's analogy: Prag
matism is like drawing a hot
bath. The water gets warmer by
degrees, so you don't realize
when you’re being boiled alive.
Other panelists spoke on
abortion from medical, legal and
theological perspectives.
Alfred lanora, a Eugene doc
tor with a general practice, said
abortion was considered a
criminal act more than a decade
ago but is now seen as ther
apeutic, he said.
It's an undeniable biological
fact that life begins at concep
tion, he said. "Genetically, you
have a new individual,” unlike
any other person, lanora said.
"We are all masterpieces."
But the U S. Supreme Court
decided in the 1973 Roe vs.
Wade case, “the unborn is not a
person for the purposes of the
Constitution,” Eugene attorney
Tom Alderman said
He compared abortion to
slavery. "One class of in
dividuals was exploited by the
stronger by the simple device of
defining the exploited class as
sub-human,” he said. If the Su
preme Court was wrong in the
Dred Scott case, then the Court
could have been wrong in 1973,
Alderman said.
Every human being is special
because he is created in God's
image, said Doug Groothuis of
the McKenzie Study Center.
Even accidental abortions were
penalized according to the Old
Testament, he said, adding that
the Bible also has strong words
against sacrificing children to
idols.
“Abortion sacrifices children
on the altar of convenience,
choice and mother's rights."
Secular humanism — unlike
Christianity — doesn’t recog
nize the intrinsic worth of man,
but merely socio-economic
worth, Groothuis said. Because
of this, “the doors are open to
the society saying anything on
who’s to live or die.”
More than 10 million abor
tions since 1973 in America
shows a collective will to
suicide, Groothuis said. "If you
turn against God, you turn
against yourself .”
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