Abortion, modern day Molech sacrifices?

Question

I would be curious to know what you think about women who are raped/date-raped/gang-raped etc.?Are they 'obligated' to carry the pregnancy to term?

They can always put them up for adoption. Its not the baby's fault the dad was a rapist but I can understand why it would be hard for them.

"People desiring to live in selfish prosperity and ease brought their firstborn child to the high priest, where the child would be offered as a burnt offering to the deity.

The altar of Baal/moloch was in the image of a bull with the head and shoulders of a man. Its arms extended outward and fire belched out from a hole in the chest. The priest of Baal placed the babies on the outstretched arms, where the child would be rolled into the fire. "

There is an 800% increase in breast cancer for women less than 18 years old who have an abortion after the eighth week of pregnancy.
On average there is an 80% increase in breast cancer if the woman has an abortion before a live birth.
Risk of breast cancer increases with the number of abortions.
Women who have an abortion before a live birth and develop breast cancer have a greater possibility of having a faster growing tumor with a poorer cure rate than women who have not had an abortion.

Answer 1

About the same, its killing the innocent and doing it for gratification. Sacrificing for the selfish reasons or to a god is still a willing sacrifice, no one has the right to kill a baby in Gods eyes.

Answer 2

Well no not really because people don't really have a great reason for aborting except as a form of birth control. At least if you were sacrificing to molech you would be thinking that this would be a benefit to you or your community.I seriously know an Asian girl who had three abortions in as many months because she couldn't go to the family doctor for fear of her parents finding out.But whats more disgusting to me is allowing people to abort at 26 weeks a fully formed human being two more weeks in the womb the child would have a 5% chance of survival 4 more weeks in the womb the child would have a 50% chance of survival.It might as well be back in the biblical days of sacrificial offerings because we can all see that was murder and so is abortion.Humanities failure to take responsibility for its own actions. The only thing i agree with is the morning after pill.

Answer 3

No person should ever feel obligated to have a child that will not be loved and cared for properly.
It is perfectly ethical to abort a child that you feel you cannot care for properly. For example the Christian God frequently aborts fetuses without any obvious reason. And the Christian God does not state anywhere that abortion is unethical or a sin.
I would suggest that you should pray to God and ask him if it is right for you to have an abortion.
I would ask myself if I can support a child. Can I give him health care. Will I be a burden on society. Can I educate the child. Will he have a mother and a father. Will I love the child if his father raped me. With the child grow up hating me for giving him birth?
Keep these things in mind as you ask to be guided to the right answer.
Never listen to anyone that claims you are a murderer or any other such foolish thing. Read the Bible for yourself. Read about false prophets and the Anti Christ. Remember that God is a forgiving and grace-filled God. He will forgive you even though you will suffer either way. Abortion or not.

Answer 4

Firstly, I am a proud mother of 4, so it is not an option for me. Also I am not familiar with "Molech Sacrifices" so I can't speak about that issue.
I would be curious to know what you think about women who are raped/date-raped/gang-raped etc.? Are they 'obligated' to carry the pregnancy to term? They were not planning on this to happen, and if they are very young or have medical problems which would make it dangerous (for herself or the baby) to go through with the pregancy, I think it would be arrogant and terrifying to have to do so.
I know there's alot of people who have many children, who cannot afford or care for their kids properly. Many also abuse and neglect their own offspring, which is horrendous and damages these kids for life!
I know abortion isn't the sole answer, but until everyone in the world gets proper birth control information and is more responsible (even bring in mandatory 'parental courses' for expectant mothers) this should be an option. Especially for the aformentioned women who shouldn't have to go through something they didn't ask to happen to their bodies.

Answer 5

I do not think so, a sacrifice would have to be something that is given out of love or honor in this situation. And I do not think that the baby is aborted just to honor or love ANYONE. It would be different to each person though I guess and someone out there may have made that choice and did it for those reason, but again, if so, than you would hardly need a doc, it would kind of take away from the sacrifice being as the baby is not really alive when it is taken out, it would have to be out of the mother to be a sacrifice I would think, but who knows. (I did not know what Molech meant so had to look it up, thanks for throwing a word in that I did not know, you learn something new everyday, even from Yahoo answers, hehehehe)

Answer 6

This war, labeled “abortion,” is of epidemic proportion and is waged globally. Over fifty-five million abortions were reported worldwide in the year 1974 alone. 1 Sixty-four percent of the world’s population now live in countries that legally sanction this practice. 2 In the United States of America, over 1.5 million abortions are performed annually. 3 About 25–30 percent of all pregnancies now end in abortion. 4 In some metropolitan areas, there are more abortions performed than live births. 5 Comparable data also come from other nations.

Yet society professes reverence for human life. We weep for those who die, pray and work for those whose lives are in jeopardy. For years I have labored with other doctors here and abroad, struggling to prolong life. It is impossible to describe the grief a physician feels when the life of a patient is lost. Can anyone imagine how we feel when life is destroyed at its roots, as though it were a thing of naught?

What sense of inconsistency can allow people to grieve for their dead, yet be calloused to this baleful war being waged on life at the time of its silent development? What logic would encourage efforts to preserve the life of a critically ill twelve-week-old infant, but countenance the termination of another life twelve weeks after inception? More attention is seemingly focused on the fate of a life at some penitentiary’s death row than on the millions totally deprived of life’s opportunity through such odious carnage before birth.

The Lord has repeatedly declared this divine imperative: “Thou shalt not kill.” 6 Recently he added, “Nor do anything like unto it.” (D&C 59:6.) Even before the fulness of the gospel was restored, the enlightened understood the sanctity of life. John Calvin, the sixteenth-century reformer, wrote: “If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man’s house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.” 7

But what impropriety could now legalize that which has been forbidden by the laws of God from the dawn of time? What twisted reasoning has transformed mythical concepts into contorted slogans assenting to a practice which is consummately wrong?

Answer 7

Sacrifice implies a certain amount of ritual and intention. Quit being dramatic.
Murder I'll buy, but it's hardly new. I mean, people have been having abortions and exposing babies and sending them down rivers in baskets since the dawn of time.

Answer 8

These people that sacrificed their children...

...did this for their future fate to improve.
...have good thing to happen, or avoid penalities.
...ceremonially bring the community together.

2 out 3.. it's looking kind of close that abortion is an event that "the child must go, -for the fate of my life to be better".

-Ouch

Answer 9

Abortion... where a woman sacrifices her own child for HER sins.

Answer 10

No, its pure selfishness. Denying the right to life of another of God's creatures is immoral and shameful. Its murder, pure and simple.