Choices

This is a simple one. All my conscious life I've never understood why our society allows one to circumvent consequences by offering more choices. Shouldn't those who didn't make healthy/prolific choices be given some breathing/growing room before making another?

More specifically, I'm confounded by abortion. Remove the case of a child, molested, raped, or just uneducated about sex. Consider the more rampant situation: an adult - defined as one who has reached the legal driving age or above, as this is widely the age at which society accepts sexual activity as being healthy and normal - who has consentual sex. The most obvious "consequence" is pregnancy. Now, at this point said person has exercised their free will in choosing to have sex. Pregnancy, STD, HIV, etc. are known concrete possible results of this chosen behavior. Then, said person is not expected to move forward with the pregnancy consequence if they choose - again - not to. This time the choice is at the expense of a being that was created through no choice of its own and will now be "terminated", again through no choice of its own. Doesn't this scale seem skewed?

Now, were the consequence STD or HIV, society puts on a sad face and hovers around to support said person. WHAT!? Where was that support when the consequence was pregnancy? What a sad statement our actions as a society make about our emotional/psychological mentality!

Considering rape, incest, molestation and any other circumstance that may result in pregnancy without the person's choosing to participate, I sincerely believe that God himself through His Holy Spirit will give said person more support than they will ever need, while not removing the consequence, still turning the consequence into something good. However, I also believe that God, as stated in His Word, gives us complete free will, and would forgive and support said person even if abortion was chosen because they were never allowed to exercise their free will when the pregnancy began.

And that my dear, is why I started this blog. Thus, these are today's twelve cents... :-D