Is abortion morally acceptable?

Answer 1

Is murder morally acceptable? I think not.

Answer 2

No, you're taking away the life of an innocent child before he/she is even able to live it. To have an abortion is to take away a very precious gift. Regardless of what some may say, abortion is killing because you're taking away life. Period. A baby in the womb is still living, breathing, and growing. Life doesn't just start at birth, it starts at conception. If you don't want a baby, don't do what causes you to have one. If you do, however, and you can't or don't want to keep your baby, there are plenty of people out there who will. So many people are unable to have children and want them desperately. Plus, if you have an abortion, you'll be haunted by the guilt forever.

Answer 3

It was OK at one time to the church. To wit:

Middle Ages (476 AD to Renaissance)

1140 - The monk John Gratian completed the Concordia discordantium canonum (Harmony of Contradictory Laws) which became the first authoritative collection of Canon law accepted by the Church. In accordance with ancient scholars, it concluded the moral crime of early abortion was not equivalent to that of homicide.

c. 1200 - Pope Innocent III wrote that when "quickening" occurred, abortion was homicide. Before that, abortion was considered a less serious sin.

1307–1803 - According to English common law, abortion prior to fetal movement or "quickening" was not punished.

c. 1395 - The Lollards, an English proto-Protestant group, denounce the practice of abortion in The Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards.

1487 - Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches), a witch-hunting manual, is published in Germany. It accuses midwives who perform abortions of committing witchcraft.

1588 - Pope Sixtus V aligned Church policy with St. Thomas Aquinas' belief that contraception and abortion were crimes against nature and sins against marriage.

1591 - Pope Gregory XIV decreed that prior to 116 days (~17 weeks), Church penalties would not be any stricter than local penalties, which varied from country to country.

Answer 4

It's a hard decision.

Was the war in Iraq acceptable?

Sometimes the right decision is not pretty.

Answer 5

I suppose to answer this question, a person would haver to decide what their morals are. I myself think it is morally wrong and biblicly wrong. It is murder in Gods eyes and MURDER IS AGAINTS MY MORALS

Not that if one persons morals is good for them then it should be good for everyone... but we need to pray about what our morals should be to please God... and these are the morals that are my convictions.

Answer 6

Not to me, the only way i feel it might be acceptable is to save a woman's life (tubal Pregnancy) were the child could not live on. It is NOT and should NOT be a form of birth control.

Answer 7

I don't believe that anyone has the ability to judge what is morally right or wrong.

Answer 8

NO. If you could just see that beautiful child one time. Take a glimpse in the future and see them as a little child there is noway you could do that to them. They are alive and its murder. They are God's children. God Bless!

Answer 9

Unfortunately yes. But since you have this under the Religion catagory....the answer then obviously is NO.

Answer 10

To most people yes. By me NEVER! It is murder pure and simple, but because people are too horny to not have sex and too stupid to use birth control, they needed to find some way to decrease population.