Volume 25, Issue 7
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Letters to the Editor
A Postive Message For Women
Editor, Wisconsin Christian News: November/December 2024
mother. She had chosen life, even though it was a brief struggle for her child. There is another marker, placed
the choice for life is for the unborn’s death.
My intent is for this to be a positive message to women and to offer them a choice. Specifi- cally, the women the mainstream media ignores. Women, that choose Life. Ironically, the idea led me to visit a gravesite. I barely knew the parents, and as the marker only has one date, obviously never knew the child. So why that grave? It was the first of many I would dig over the years. My dad was the sexton, and questioned why the excavator wanted his full price for a much smaller grave. At 15, when dad offered me less than half, I quickly loaded a shovel and pick, pushing our wheelbarrow across the road. I had dug holes on our farm; this time I would get paid — $100 was a lot back then. At the time, I wasn’t thinking about how the parents had chosen life, even a brief one. Not far away is a sim- ilar grave. It has two dates but they are not far apart. As then being sexton, I had to deal with the young
I don’t know if that gentleman’s mother knew that her life was in peril.
Recently, I had a conversation with a young lady, obviously pregnant and expecting a baby soon. I wished her the best of outcomes and was about to walk away. Then a thought occurred, and I thanked her for choosing life. I’ve since met her husband and toddler. I thanked her again. During that conversation, we both agreed that there are probably many women like her — choosing life, not death. A silent majority — if only they would speak up. The hands that rock the cradle could again rule the world. Have you thanked a mother for making the choice for life? It is as simple as thanking veterans for their service. See a pregnant woman or mother and child, and just say, “Thank you for choosing life for your child.” There’s sacrifice in military service; these women have chosen as so many before, a lifetime commitment. Could such simple “Thank you” become a pro-life movement? I don't know. I will carry it on. There is another marker in that cemetery, for my mom and dad. I am ashamed to say, I never told her, “Thank you, mom, for choosing life for me.” -William Behringer, Winneconne, Wis.
long before I was born. The elderly man who discussed his plans for his future burial nearby, explained she was his mother. Whether she died during or shortly after his birth, I didn’t ask. She chose life — giving him life ended hers.
This maybe isn’t sounding very positive. Yet, the positive point is the choice of these women for life, even in tragic circum- stances. The mainstream media would have us believe that the vast majority of women are pro-abortion. “Pro-choice,” ac- cording to their twisted mental gymnastics, but “choice” implies at least two options. Try to avoid it as they may, the opposite of
Who Pays the Price For Abortions?
Editor, Wisconsin Christian News: November/December 2024
Unwanted pregnancies are even more common today despite the many helps available to prevent pregnancy. This has led me to think. We all make mistakes and it is generally understood that peo- ple who make mistakes should be the ones responsible for related costs. Then why is it today when a man and a woman make a “mis- take” resulting in an unwanted pregnancy, abortion is often the “solution” and it is the unborn who pays the price for the mistake?
ing in a world where what parents think, rather than the biology of the unborn determines reality? The heart of the matter is our ten- dency and willingness to let emo- tions rather than our God given self-wills determine what is true. Our self-wills are a fruit of the spirit and play a key role in determining our quality of life. We call on our self-will multiple times daily when making decisions on whether to choose man’s way or God’s way. The former leads to works of the flesh; the latter to fruit of the Spirit. In choosing not to admit that the unborn is a child, we are dulling one of our most precious assets, the ability to choose right from wrong. We are in a culture that lets its “self” walk away from truth. Let- ting feelings determine what is right is “woke” thinking and a path to de- spair and hopelessness, and too often destruction. Christ said it clearly, “without Me you can do nothing; with Me all things are possible.” It is bad enough to make wrong choices on matters that affect us as individuals but it is unconscionable when the unborn is the one who must pay the price with their life.
Years ago, I was talking with a psychiatrist who had been as- signed to write a report on a local sex murder crime. He told me that our sex drive is the strongest human emotion. I thought he was exaggerating until several years later, we were expecting our fifth child in eight years. I felt having this child was a mistake. We hadn’t planned for this pregnancy, we hadn’t exercised self-control, we hadn’t used any of many cultural safeguards available to avoid get- ting pregnant. God, however, saw this as an opportunity. A few weeks later, we attended a conference on spiritual growth. At one of the noon lunches, I men- tioned that we were having an un- expected fifth child. Several Christian friends confronted me and said I was a problem in our cul- ture, not an answer. I came to real- ize I needed Holy Spirit help in the area of sexual relations. Within days, a born again experience fol- lowed. Recently, we celebrated seventy one years of a very enjoyable mar- riage with five children and numer- ous grand-children and great grandchildren.
The price? The baby’s life.
Think about that. People avoid paying for “mistakes” that lead to pregnancy by believing the unborn is just an embryo, not a child, not living, not a human being. We have a thirty five year old granddaughter born in the seventh month of her mother’s pregnancy. She is intelli- gent, capable and lovely. How could she not have been a child seven months, five months, or three months before birth? What is going on? Men and women driven by the strongest human emotion are creating life and labeling the unborn an embryo or fetus, anything but a baby or child. On the other hand, parents who want a child speak of their un- born as a child as soon as they learn of the pregnancy. Are we liv-
-Jim Dickson, Neenah, Wis. Jimdick777@aol.com
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