Earlier, another fellow Christian made the following statement: "Abortion is murder. It is an evil act, regardless of circumstances. There is no justification whatsoever for deliberately killing an unborn child."
Im curious how a Christian would approach this situation: On walking home from a Church meeting, you are attacked and raped by an AIDS packing, mentally retarded person. You become pregnant, and the child is known to have AIDS. Do you carry the child for nine months and give birth to it and raise it as your own??
Similarily, you are raped by your father, and a child is conceived through incest. It is known that the child will have birth defects due to the incestual factors. Do you still keep the baby, or would you abort is either scenario??
Just curious...
2006-07-12 06:21:09 · 23 answers · asked by YDoncha_Blowme 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
* from my view...
before answering to your question...
i have to emphasize that christians are also human..
christians.. are not perfect...
we do.. sin... but we repent...
trying not to sin again..
whether to abort the child have to see current circumstances...
i would agree.. that abortion... will be one of my choices.. to consider...if i met with those situations..
2006-07-12 06:28:03 · answer #1 · answered by garfield 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
First of all no I would not have an abortion in either circumstance and before you say I would not know how I would react let me tell you. I was raped at 14 and did think that I might be pregnant. I feared the situation at hand but decided that if I was I could not blame the child for it's fathers sins. If one does not wish to raise such a child there is another loving opportunity. Adoption. And believe it or not there are people out there who would take and love such a child. I would in a heartbeat. Either way abortion does not solve the problem. It does not make you not a mother but it makes you the mother of a dead baby. My own mother is dealing with this trauma. Years ago when I was very young she was pressured into an abortion. A family member told her that she would loose the children she already had if she had another. She had the abortion. Then she had a mental breakdown. Now she is still dealing with this terrible "choice." She is on medication and disability and someone must stay with her all the time. She is only 57. Abortion makes at least 2 or 3 victims. The infant, the mother{whether she realizes it or not} and even the father.{where is his choice?]
Peace Be With You,
Debra
2006-07-12 13:34:13 · answer #2 · answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you a driving a car, and you run a red light, should the passenger in your car be charged with manslaughter?
Does a person person with handicaps have fewer rights than a person without? Do they somehow lead less fulfilled lives simply due to the fact that they are handicapped?
If a child is conceived with no handicaps and becomes handicapped at birth due to delivery complications, should the child be killed?
If a child is born perfect and becomes disabled at ten years old, should they be disposed of?
From a Biblical perspective, the right choice would be to give birth to the baby, and I would hope that I would have enough courage and faith to follow through with that. Keeping the baby or giving it up for adoption is a personal choice.
I have seen numerous examples of questions here that ridicule the method God chose for redeeming us from our sins, i.e, Christ dying on the cross for our sins, but many ot those same people probably believe it is okay to ask an unborn child to pay the price for someone else's sins.
2006-07-12 13:38:36 · answer #3 · answered by pg1955 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So, what did the infant/fetus do to deserve to be aborted? That's why I believe abortion to be wrong, even under the worst-case incredible circumstances you described. The only time I would consider it is if a medical emergency took place and my wife OR the unborn child would survive, but not both, and a choice between the two had to be made by me. (And honestly, I don't have specific knowledge of any such situations. In that case, I decided long ago and told the doctors whenever my wife went into labor, that her life had priority.) Yes, it would be a tough, painful decision to live with.
An unborn child is innocent.
2006-07-12 13:36:38 · answer #4 · answered by Todd F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you've ever looked into the pregnency process, you'll find out that once the egg and sperm meet, the cells multiply and grow. A characteristic of LIFE.
Those are tragic situations, but what right do we have to take a "life"? God allowed the sperm and egg meet for a reason, who are we to tell the Creator of life He's wrong? In any situation, the baby should be given the opportunity to live. Even if you can't handle that commitment, there are tons of people who would be willing to take on that responsibility. If you'd look at those situations from the perspective God wanted you to, perhaps raising that child would be the best thing that ever happened to you, a growing experience, instead of looking at the evil that occurs in this world, look at the blessing God has given in this little life. God never puts us in a situation that He hasn't equipped us to handle.
2006-07-12 13:47:01 · answer #5 · answered by jesusfreek 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would vastly prefer adoption or a C section for the sake of both woman and child
Historically Christians have opposed abortion, but I would be more careful in chosing the words. It is often not a deliberate ending of life it would be more a case of the mother not realizing
In a way murder might not be a good word to choose
it might be the choice between two evils
Its like accusing someone of lying because they misspoke
there may be no intention to decieve
I think abortion in general is wrong since it involves ending an innocent life
you would have to know the intentions of a person to call it murder
In some cases like tubal pregnancy its alose lose situation, both the life of the mother and child would be lost if it wasnt done
so one has to be careful not to overgeneralize
2006-07-12 13:26:25 · answer #6 · answered by whirlingmerc 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Although you are hateflu and just looking to provoke, the answer is that ABORTION IS NEVER ACCEPTABLE. In self-defense to save the life of the mother in which case both would die, then it's the lesser of the two evils. Otherwise, murder is not an acceptable response to rape or incest.
Do the rapists deserve the death penalty? Why then the innocent unborn child?
2006-07-13 12:20:17 · answer #7 · answered by jacquefromtexas 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Taking a life is murder - the ways of conceiving that life does not matter. Everything happens for a reason and I am not one to question God's motives. The unborn child should never be sacrificed for the sins of the flesh.
2006-07-12 13:27:11 · answer #8 · answered by kris2166 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It happened because God allowed it to happen. Therefore God would have you to obey Him and not kill an onnocent child no matter what "man" would say was wrong with the child. It could be that He was intending for a miracle to occur with the child. But the person who aborted the child would never know. Jesus loves you.
2006-07-12 13:27:20 · answer #9 · answered by cindy j 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In all instances where conception has taken place, it is Gods call and not ours if that child should live or die and what kind of life it will have.
If you are not strong enough to raise the child, give it up for adoption, adoption is strongly advocated throughout the bible, even for us gentiles were adopted into the seed of abraham, so that we could have salvation and eternal life.
2006-07-12 13:46:47 · answer #10 · answered by cindy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to be uneducated about abortion, so I thought it would be all right under certain circumstances. However, abortion never is right. If you need to know why, look in the bible. God knew us before he created us. We aren't supposed to kill one another, and abortion is killing an unborn living child.
2006-07-12 13:26:43 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋