Making a Stand

Blog71:

Either we do or we don’t have an opinion about something that’s important.  On issues and situations that we encounter however, firmly determining and standing on our viewpoint is essential.  We do so because after thoroughly thinking, and believing it is the right and moral stance, we are surely abiding by it, acting on it and making sure there are supports for that issue’s underlying framework.  One thing we mustn’t deliberate by all means is straddling over it. 

Take the issue, for instance, of an unborn embryo either ill-conceived or thoughtfully-considered prior to forming.  You might even ask, if it were essential to know, “How did it form: at will or forcibly planted, as in rape?”  Likewise, what’s your stance on what’s getting biologically formed? Is the forming embryo human or not? What’s a human?

In the case of a woman raped and had become pregnant, should she take the pregnancy to a full-term or abort it, and why?  Who makes the choice / decision? Are pro-life folks committed to attend to the care of the born if they force their stance on a woman, and then sustain it to its maturity, or are they simply screaming and talking, but are not walking the talking?

If biological parents, on the other end, decide to keep the growing being in full-term, but don’t have the resources to sustain the needs of the born, would the pro-life folks assist in caring for it?  Are those folks going to put together the required network to uphold the lives brought into the world?

Ending or sustaining a decision of importance is by all means never an easy matter with which to deal.  Take another issue on account. Who decides ending or prolonging one’s suffering of the terminally ill? Is it the person himself/herself, the family, the loved ones, the medical personnel, one’s clergy?  Take yet another issue.  What’s to be done with a mentally handicapped person, in a crisis of life and death, when there’s no immediate family to resolve it?

Life poses multifaceted day-to-day, and life-death choices for us all.  Complicated concerns pit our heart and mind.  Our society either frowns or accepts our decisions or preferences.  What holds together all the confusion and wrangling we go through at the end of day is standing firmly on our word.  We all must individually face difficult questions.  That means simply asking, “Could we live by a choice and action we make without guilt?  With our own conviction, and rationale, could we move it into action that is morally correct?”

These are tough calls!  These are tough stands!  Challenges try our best wits.  They wring and bend us.  Our opinions … our decisions … must be accounted and measured only by our very own consciences.