The Wrong Way
Have you ever been told you’re responding to abortion the wrong way?
We hear this frequently. Sometimes it’s students who agree abortion is wrong but condemn our use of “ugly pictures.” Then there are those who think we’re mistaken to engage on college campuses.
And there are also those who think the real answer would be passing out condoms.
The Right Way?
We recently took up this challenge with a special two-part mini-series of “The Debrief,” a Created Equal podcast featuring our team members responding to actual footage from our outreaches.
In Part One: Why We Don’t Just Push Contraception, we begin with ethical concerns related to the baby. Not everything under the broad category of “contraception” works the same way. Some truly prevent conception—that is, they work against (“contra”) conception—by preventing the sperm and egg from meeting. Others, however, can cause the death of a baby after she’s been created. It is inaccurate to lump all of these together in the same category. Preventing life is not the same as taking an action that causes the death of that life.
But there are also questions of morality related to the parents. Listen to Maggie, Created Equal team member and host of The Debrief, introduce these concerns.
We care about babies—so much that we’ve dedicated our lives and careers to rescuing them. However, we also care about their parents. We cannot, therefore, encourage parents to engage in immoral, unhealthy sexual practices with the mere hope that this would prevent babies from being made.
Birth Control or Self Control?
In Part Two: Sex Education and Male Responsibility, we turn to another question. This one was inspired by a student frustrated by what she considers to be a lack of concern for men and their sexual practices.
Our response? Yes, there is a lack of responsibility among men today. Many use, abuse, then purposefully lose women. This is clearly wrong. But is birth control the solution?
No, there’s a bigger battle. And it goes deeper than our reproductive organs. It is waged in our hearts.
What we are facing, then, is not a lack of access to birth control but a lack of self control. This is a problem too big for latex or pills to solve. Condoms don’t transform irresponsible men into noble knights. There is no magical pill that turns a man-child into a mature adult.
We need to call all people, men and women, to a higher bar. We all need to be responsible for the choices we make.
Debrief With Us
The real problem is therefore one of worldview. What is the purpose of sex? What is the right context for engaging in sex? And when children result from it, what rights do they have?
These are questions we must become more comfortable handling in daily conversations. And we want to make it easy for you. That’s why we created The Debrief. Even if you can’t join us on campus, these short episodes give you an inside peek not only into what happens on the street but also our behind-the-scenes dialogue to improve our conversations.
Join us Wednesdays or catch up on earlier episodes to hear more objections like this and tips for how to respond.
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