justify abortion, christians and non christians?

Question

If you are a christian and believe in abortion can you justify it for me. If you are not a christian and you justify abortion by saying the unborn child is not alive then justify this for me please. Thank you all and may God bless you.

Answer 1

I wasn't against aborting until I made the decision not to get one, and had my daughter, the most precious thing in the world to me. Now I am. It comes down to this. In a society where media is saturated with sex, sex symboles, and everything revolving around sex, girls just do it because they don't know any better. They have sex, get pregnant, and don't want to take responsibility for their actions. I have 3 sisters who had abortions. I don't preach antiabortion to them. They have their reasons for their decision, mostly out of convenience for themselves. Unless a woman has aids, or the child might be born with a serious birth defect (even that isn't justifiable because plenty of children live with dabilitating defects every day) they should keep the child. If they can't take care of it, let someone who can adopt it. There are so many people dying to be parents, it's a shame so many lives are being taken... On a different note, some people in drug/abusive type situations just keep having kids, and the children only suffer. Just sit at the department of social services for a little while. I can't justify it, but I'm not opposed to it. I will always try to talk someone out of it, and I won't have one. But ultimately I respect a woman for whatever decision they make. Thanks for asking something thought proviking, it's a really touchy subject dor some.

Answer 2

The Bible say "thou shalt not kill". It does not specify when life begans. No one knew back then and really we still don't. It does not say what not to kill. And, do you kill small animals and insects? And do you eat meat? That is killing too. I sure hope you don't eat eggs!

I don't really "believe" in abortion at least not as birth control. But birth control can fail. I have seen men force their girlfriends to get abortions because they didn't want to use birth control. And, it can be unhealthy for women.

And, please note that very few abortions are performed now days. Any abortions are within the first three months. The so called "partial birth" abortion has to do with which comes first feet or head and not that the baby is able to stay alive on its own.

It is most often done to save the mother's life. Do you prefer to let the baby and the Mother both die? Do you prefer the life of a Mother with loved ones and other children to a fetus who knows no one and nothing and who may not live either? What if both Mother and baby die without an abortion? What do you think then? Isn't it more murder to let both Mother and baby die than to let just the unborn fetus die? The fetus will die anyway without the Mother's body!

What is an abortion though? Is a woman letting her egg go unfertilized each month an abortion? If a woman is not pregnant all the time is this killing life? It is killing potential life and so is eating eggs. And, eating fertilized eggs, as many people do is murder if you follow the line of anti-abortion activitists. I hope the Pope does not eat eggs. And, he is wasting life potential by not getting married and having children.

If all women were pregnant all of the time how would you feed all of those kids? Where would they go? People will die of starvation. Nothing would be achieved as everyone would be having sex all of the time to save the life potential held in sperm and eggs.

Yet, it is funny that no one cares about the lives of these babies once they are born.

And, we have a "pro-life" president who is supporting murder and massacres all over the world. Is that ok?

If you are against abortion I hope that you are also against all and any war, eat no eggs, no meat, and are pregnant all of the time and adopt all of the unwanted kids. I also hope that you support socialized housing, medicine and all of the things which help the kids stay alive once they are born!

I hope that you have a large house and a larger pocketbook.

My parents who did not believe in premarital or extramarital sex and were highly religious (my Dad a preacher) said that the poor should be allowed abortions because the rich can always get them somehow. They just fly off to another country. And, they wondered why no one cares for these babies after they are born!

Answer 3

Abortion has always been a touchy subject. I believe in the right to choose. Do I think it's a good choice? NO. I am a Christian and God has given us free will to choose whether or not to do the wrong or right thing. Personally I don't think I would ever get and abortion but I won't stop the next woman that does think it's the best thing for her. If you want to talk about if a child is alive, it says in the Bible (see Gen. 4:6). from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Until that baby is born he hasn't breathed a breath of life and is not a living being yet. I know this doesn't agree with what science may say. However a fetus maybe alive before birth but whether or not it has a soul yet is arguable.

Answer 4

Halacha (Jewish law) does define when a fetus becomes a nefesh (person). "...a baby...becomes a full-fledged human being when the head emerges from the womb. Before then, the fetus is considered a 'partial life.' " In the case of a "feet-first" delivery, it happens when most of the fetal body is outside the mother's body.

With the exception of some Orthodox authorities, Judaism supports abortion access for women.

Historical Christianity has considered "ensoulment," the point at which the soul enters the body) as the time when abortions should normally be prohibited. Belief about the timing of this event has varied from the instant of fertilization of the ovum, to 90 days after conception, or later. There has been no consensus among historical Jewish sources about when ensoulment happens.

During the first 40 days of gestation, the fetus, according to the Talmud, is “as if it were simply water,” and from the 41st day until birth it is “like the thigh of its mother.” Neither men nor women may amputate their thigh at will because that would be injuring their bodies, which belong to God. Thus, according to Jewish law, abortion is generally prohibited, not as an act of murder (the Catholic position) but as an act of self-injury. On the other hand, if the thigh turns gangrenous, then both men and women have the positive duty to have their thigh amputated in order to save their lives. Similarly, if the woman’s life or health is at stake, an abortion must be performed to save the life or the physical or mental health of the woman, for she is without question a full-fledged human being with all the protections of Jewish law, while the fetus is still only part of the woman’s body.

Answer 5

Jusitifcation is really not needed. It's legal at this point in the US. I'll explain why some think that abortion is not taking a life.

Some counter the a fetus is "alive", and use the heartbeat as an eveidence. It's a poor example or argument to use the heartbeat as an affirmation of "Living". Thousands of human organs are harvested each year from accident victims while thier hearts are still beating and most are breathing on their own (or respirator). All have no functional brain capacity. Removal for the organs for others, will certainly result in phsyiologic death for the accident victim. It will result in 'Life" for the recipient of the organs, especially in the case of a heart. If we waited until the accident victim was completely dead, we would not be able to use the organs harvested. We (society) feel this process is Okay because as a society we have set the standard of "living" as functional brain capacity.

Some will argue when a sperm and egg get together and share DNA, they are a Living Cell, however, each cell was "living" also before uniting DNA. Only the obvious is proved, but what it proves is meaningless. Some try to make the point that Life starts at conception, which many do not agree. The term conception is controversial in itself. many of the Pro-Life movement have termed conception as the moment of fertilization before implantation into the uterine wall. However, the origin of the word Conception is fro the latin root "Capio" which means to "grasp, to take hold, or recieve into the body". Until implantation occurs(betwwen 6-7 days after fertilization), there's no way this living cell is going to survive anyways. In fact, most fertilized eggs never implant into the uterine wall. While estimates vary, science is in consensus that this natural abortion process occurs between 60-80% of the time for fertilized eggs. Call it nature or God's will, as a percentage, people cause much few abortions than God or nature.

It's a complicated issue. I wouldn't suggest looking for jusification as a way of trying to come to a conclusion.

Answer 6

This is such a complicated issue. Justification? Well, it's your body. Sorry folks. But it is. It's true that many people view a fetus as a living being and it is, to some degree.....but what is worse??? Having a child you can't afford who will only suffer in life and perpetuate the vicious circle of poverty and children having children?? I think that people should practice using birth control instead of abortion. Personally, I wouldn't have one unless the circumstances were dire. I think WAY too many children are born to people who don't have the skills to be a good parent. In this day and age where so few families stick together I think we send the wrong message to our children. And we aren't learning good parenting skills. In most cases, the single mom has the children and the Daddies are disappearing from the picture. It isn't ok to have children and abandon, abuse them like so many have been because parents who got pregnant without knowing what they were getting into. When we bring a child into this world we essentially have to give up what we want for ourselves and the child becomes the focus of our life. MANY parents do not know this ahead of time. I didn't. Lastly, to think that someone, who doesn't know me or even care to know me, could tell ME what to do with my BODY....Forget About it. We ALL pay in the end for those who don't believe in birth control but can't support their babies either. It is way more than just a moral issue. Society needs to figure out a better educational method on parenting. Unfortunately the dynamics of family are ever changing and we will always be behind.....

Answer 7

A fetus has not been born yet, so it has no human rights yet, since humans have to be born in the first place to have rights.
A woman who has becoma pregnant has rights, because she is already a human, and one of those rights is freedom of choice.
Sure, that particular right (which is in the Constitution), can be debated with religious morals, but the bottom line is this: if abortion was not legal, some desperate women would still choose to terminate a pregnancy, but there would be no sterile facilities around to perform this type of surgery. So these women would be doing life-threatening "operations" on themselves or in some back alley by someone who is not qualified in a less-than-sterile setting.
By imposing religious beliefs and making this practice illegal won't stop it from happening, but it will destroy more lives than just the fetuses that are being terminated.

Answer 8

After an undesired pregnancy has been achieved, whether by force or accident, anyone with the ability for common sense would understand that it is far better to have an abortion than to raise a child in undesirable conditions..if one cannot feed 'em or care for 'em, don't breed 'em. Raising a child in deplorable conditions is far more torturous than the few minutes it takes to have an abortion. And it isn't a 'baby', it's a mass of tissue WITHOUT thought or feeling. Adoption can always be justified by the THOUSANDS IF NOT MILLIONS of parent-less children around the world.

Answer 9

Abortion is the only 100% sure form of birth control, beside the totally unrealistic demand that religionists make that we should all abstain from enjoying the most pleasurable aspect of being human. I'm not saying that it should be the primary form of birth control, just a back-up to all the others. The population of the planet is at 6,000,000,000 (6 billion), in 1850 it was 1 billion. In twenty years we will add another billion and a half. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that we are about to breed ourselves out of existence. 40,000 children starve to death everyday, our seas are dying from our waste, arable land is disappearing at 2% per year,finite resources (like oil) will soon run out and people have the stupidity to say the world has room for more people.
The time to fix this problem in an orderly manner has passed. We have religions trying to out breed each other and people selfishly thinking they can and should have more than two children per couple.The world can't afford it and like any infectious disease Humanity may just poison and kill our host (Earth) unless we adapt (Mutate) to a form that can live in harmony with the Earth. It is time for Humanity to grow up and PROVE it is a higher form of life.

Abortion is just a tool to help us limit our numbers and should be used as a last resort. No one should EVER be forced to bare an unwanted, unloved child in a world where too many are already being born.

Answer 10

Honestly, every time a couple have protected sex, with millions of sperms dying each time a man ejaculates, I see that as mass abortion already.

So the thing is, I see a baby who has not yet developed feelings but can move the same as a sperm that can swim.

It is only murder when we kill a kid where it starts feeling pain. I believe beginning stages where it's still a seed, it's no different from when it was still a sperm.

So it would be completely hypocritical to be against abortion and not be against ejaculation.

Secondly, I think for those who debated that we have no right to take a potiential life away from someone without their permission, this is my take. How about who the hell gave you the right to give me my life? Did anybody ask my permission if I wanted to enter this world? No! So aren't you just as bad?

The thing is, I am against causing hurt or pain to another human being, but if that human is still in a stage where it's similar as a chicken in an egg yolk, then we aren't causing them pain, cuz they can't feel pain.

Answer 11

Everything these days has political and social wrongs and right. Abortion by the mass is not right, it is murder, you are taking the life of a possible saint or serial killer. Abortion is a personal choice. If a man rapes, a woman, and she becomes pregnant, is she wrong to have a abortion? She was assaulted, she was not a willing participate in the act.Do you think God would punish her for getting rid of the child? I think not considering that "God is forgiving and the reader of hearts" and knowing what happened to this woman. He would forgive her, he forgives killers each and every second of each and everyday. So why do we "Judge" we are not in that position, and there is not a place in the bible where it says "no abortion, due to rape or choice" find that verse and make a believer outta me...