Christianity Against Women and LGBTQ+ Rights
Pro-abortion individuals are shocked and showed disapproval to the recent US Supreme Court decision to overturn the Roe V. Wade ruling which recognized the woman’s constitutional right to abortion. From this time, America allows its states to decide whether they will continue or ban abortion in their place.
Based on the political discussion I watched on BBC News, Roe V. Wade was a landmark decision that gives women the liberty if they choose not to continue their pregnancy. For 50 years, this has been implemented but not until today when the US Supreme Court overturned it.
According to them, the other states in America will continue to legalize abortion, but the remaining 13 conservative states are expected to make it illegal. So, if a woman resides in one of those 13 states and really needs an abortion, she may still go to another state to have one.
This may impact poorer women because it restricts their rights to cheap and accessible healthcare. If their certain pregnancy puts their life in danger, it will be costly to travel a thousand miles just to have an abortion.
I watched a Filipino documentary back then that showed how difficult it is to have an abortion here in our country. One of the things discussed is the danger of practicing illegal abortion. Given that the government doesn't allow this, women have no choice but to resort to unsafe practices that further endanger their lives.
In the latter part of the documentary, a pregnant woman can't abort her child despite the danger of her pregnancy. Even if the doctors didn't want to continue the pregnancy, they had no choice but to comply with the law. At the end of the film, both the mother and baby die because of complications.
Many famous personalities condemned this backward progress in America.
They said that one of the factors that played a big role in this Supreme Court decision was the conservative justices that former President Trump put into power. These Christian conservatives pushed to reconsider Roe V. Wade decision.
In a video I watched earlier, a woman couldn’t contain her emotions on live TV after hearing the recent US Court Decision.
No offense to my Christian readers, but after watching her, I can't help but agree with what she said.
As a person who is baptized to be a Christian, I am expected by the people around me to grow based on the morale of Christianity. But as I grew up, I started to question several beliefs and several prejudices of the holy book towards women and LGBTQ+. Because of this religion-based book, people spread hate to others; people take away the rights of others.
Here in the Philippines, the population is composed of a Christian majority. This isn't shocking because we were colonized by the Spaniards, who were the first to introduce Catholicism in the country. Since then, we have become accustomed to this and have incorporated it into our daily lives. Even laws are undeniably affected by religion — abortion and the SOGIE bill can't be passed into law because of our conservativeness. Sorry, but for me, it's disgusting to think that we disregard the welfare of several people just to follow a religion we don't even know if it's true.
It just saddens me because according to historians, there is numerous evidence that we already have our own religion that respects women and homosexuals. But sh!It happens, Spaniards came and brainwashed us.
Isn't it ironic that Spain is one of the countries that are open when it comes to these topics? Hays, I think the Philippines is evolving, just backward.
Again, I apologize. But as long as Christianity is one of the reasons why people keep on taking away the rights of some people, I will forever see them against women and LGBTQ+.
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This will give more power to abuser, I mean the anti-abortion. Those who have been sexually abused and got pregnant will have little to no choice.