Last night at our Christian Thinking small-group, we started talking about a biblical worldview as opposed to the average American’s worldview. A brand-new believer explained her old thinking this way: “I rejected God and the Bible not because I thought about it and decided it was wrong. It was because I was too busy thinking about myself.”
As Joe Carter explains in his post, Abortion and the Culture of Me, this kind of attitude is what has characterized our culture for the last three or four decades. The logical conclusion is that we become willing to do just about anything in order to ensure our own continued comfortable existence. Even kill the ones we love. That’s what one woman said after her abortion, as quoted in Glamour Magazine:
“This may sound strange, but I felt I knew the being I was carrying. I felt he was my son. I even called him Ernesto. And Ernesto was my reminder that my life was significant and that having an abortion was putting my life first. I know it was really about me, about promising myself that now I get to be super thoughtful about my life, super intentional — and that’s what the last five years since the abortion have been about.”
Roe v Wade was decided on January 22, 1973. On that day, I was in the first trimester of gestation in my mother’s womb. Had I been in another woman’s womb, a woman who said to herself “It’s really about me,” I might not be here today.