By Greg Cook, Crisis Magazine, April 5, 2023
Greg Cook is a writer living with his wife in New York’s North Country. He earned two master’s degrees, including one in public administration from The Evergreen State College. He is the author of two poetry collections: Against the Alchemists, and A Verse Companion to Romano Guardini’s ‘Sacred Signs’.
“My body, my choice” are the words often associated with pro-abortion. “My body, my rights” is Amnesty International’s campaign slogan for individuals to have the right to make their own choices about their health, body, and sexual life. And thus, we now have a society where abortion, transgenderism, surrogacy, and various forms of fertility manipulation have become or are becoming the “norm.”
We may ask where all these killings and body exploitations will end. The answer is simple: It will end only when we go back to the foundation of the creation of human life and back to our Creator. Our bodies are first and foremost not ours but God’s: “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV). …
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