Prolife people: Is this a question you won't touch with a 10 foot pole?

Question

I didn't get a single pro-life response to this question:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ahj6NwNmrW5ZXMGrc2vAi9vzy6IX?qid=20060905173907AAJr9Ep

Prolife folks, I know that you're out there, and I know you read the question. Two people gave the question a thumbs-down, but didn't answer. Why not?

Maybe it is a difficult question, but aren't the difficult questions in life that are the most important to answer?

I think that it deserves a real response, not just a weak thumbs down.

Why not just tell us your feelings about it?
I posted the question because I honestly want to know the prolife perspective on this.

damnit more typos.
As always, I remind you that I type with my elbows.

such courage you have, Nikki.
such courage to stand up for your convictions.

"Me" you still didn't address the question.

I didn't ask if people were against it, I asked why they don't PROTEST it.
Words and actions are not equals.

Also, if "intent" matters, abortions are carried out by OBGYN's who also deliver children. So that also doesn't address the issue.

child of the lion, I think you're just avoiding the issue.

Answer 1

I think that it's safe to assume that no-one _really_ believes that "it's a human life from conception". For example, I'm sure you've seen the ads and billboards paid for by anti-abortion groups that proclaim in big letters "It's a human life from conception"...but then have a big photo of a smiling infant. Similarly, imagine a lab containing fertilized human eggs, adult dogs and cats, and adult human lab workers. Imagine that lab catching fire. You've got time to rush in and save someone, but you can only make one or two trips. I say that we would ALL save the adult human beings first, and the dogs and cats next, if possible. It's utterly clear to me that anyone who saved the fertilized eggs before any of the adult animals (human or otherwise) would have to have a serious mental or moral defect, and I don't believe for a moment that even the most rabid antiabortionist would do so. Furthermore, if that person managed to save all of the humans and all of the dogs and cats, he or she and everyone else would feel a great sense of relief, not a great sense of loss at the destruction of the fertilized eggs.

While the grassroots anti-abortionists are certainly sincere for the most part, the anti-abortion movement as a whole is really a political movement - the co-opting of religion by the political right wing.

Answer 2

Most people who are pro-life just pretend to be pro-life to stop abortions from happening. They don't believe people should be able to stop pregnancy from happening when people have no desire or ability to raise a child.

These same people insist that there would be a home for all the aborted fetuses if these people would just give their children up for adoption... even though there aren't enough homes for the children that already exist.

These same people have no trouble supporting these children through government welfare, keeping the older ones in jails... and/or putting them to death when they get death sentences, however, people should not have the right to end an unwanted pregnancy.

People can pretend it is murder all they want, but it's all just a joke. I don't take it seriously. It is a fake issue used to control people and to help keep certain people in political power.

I am pro life. I believe abortion is not a good solution. I believe that a woman has the right to have a child or not. I believe that it is better to end a pregnancy than it is to raise a monster for society to deal with later. Unwanted and unloved children should not be born just to make people who will never know them can feel good about taking the choice away from a mother.

The only REAL solution is PREVENTING pregnancy. People should be taught from VERY early how morally and ethically wrong it is to have a child when there isn't a PROPER home to raise a child in.

There are more than a dozen methods of birth control. Most of them can be used in conjunction with others. There is no excuse for unwanted pregnancies... there should be no reason for abortions.

Answer 3

I think it's all a bunch of BullS***! You have a point about the fertility clinics but people don't think out of the box, most of society is so fu**ing brain washed, they normally wouldn't think of a fertility clinic in such a way. You see your exactly right, they're flushing embryo's down the toilet , but the mere thought of a parent trying to conceive and letting one go not freezing it for god knows how long...it's just a guilty act and a selfish one at that! So PRO LIFE sure I am, but I mind my own business, I don't agree with anyone taking a persons living life away, but when your talking about embryos for god sake.....man come on already, And abortion clinics I wouldn't want to have a rapest baby. There is always going to be circumstances which can alter any situation, but wake up people and get a whiff of the real situation!!!! we're @ freakin' war.

Answer 4

Many pro-life people oppose certain fertility treatments, especially IVF, because they recognize that many embryos are destroyed during these processes. Some don't. Some pro-lifers simply aren't aware of what goes on in IVF and thus have no problems with it. Others don't have a problem with IVF per se, but think it should be conducted differently so there aren't "surplus" embryos being created and destroyed. Others are opposed to IVF in general - they think it is disrespectful to create human life in a laboratory. There isn't one monolithic pro-life position on fertility treatments like IVF.

Now why don't prolifers opposed to this stuff picket fertility clinics? Probably for the same reasons that not every pro-life person engages in pickets outside abortion clinics. Or for the same reason that not every person who opposes the war in Iraq protests it during one of these giant street marches. You can support a cause but not get into protesting it on the streets.

Sometimes picketing is not very effective. Sometimes it's counter-productive. Sometimes it is effective, but not every person is cut out for it. Some people don't have the right kind of temperment to take a cause to the streets (this is the case for any activist movement). Often people simply don't have time to picket - there's a reason why so many activists (in all kinds of causes) are college students.

There are other ways to promote the pro-life view on IVF - through our churches, through education, through voting, and through the choices we make ourselves and the examples we set for our families and close friends. I think these ways can be far more effective than picketing the local IVF clinic.

Answer 5

Excellent question!
I consider myself pro-life (I am alive and I do not advocate killing).
Life entails choices, everyday we make choices, small and large.
Personally I am not a picket kind of guy. If someone asks for my view point on an issue, I generally give it.
I find it is better to provoke thought, than shove opinion.

Good luck obtaining the answers you are looking for.

Answer 6

I can honestly say that I haven't protested fertility clinics because I had no idea that they did this. It's something I want to research and see what all goes on at these places.

Answer 7

That's a good ?. I consider myself to be basicly prolife (but not militant about it) and I never thought of it that way. bet not many others have either, though I know there are some ethical issues with fertility treatments. thanks for the food for thought.

Answer 8

If you asked a sensible and narrower question you would get better answers. I am pro life but will not force my beliefs on anyone. Didn't God give us a choice? Doesn't He allow us to choose bad decisions as well as good. So why would we want to play God. I cannot understand some of my brothers.

Answer 9

they are, many people are against that, its just not publicised a lot. but, if you think about it, the doctors are not trying to kill children in a fertility clinic, they are trying to make more. at an abortion clinic, thats exactly what they are doing. the mother doesn't feel responsible for her actions and woulds rather kill the child then have it, and give it to someone who is incapable of having children.

Answer 10

You're right. Flushing them is just as bad as aborting them. The fertility clinics just aren't picketed because it is concidered more acceptable if it is done for people who want babies as opposed to those who don't.