woman to choose abortion? I think that this is the MOST cowardly of all possible positions; KNOWING that abortion is murder but being unwilling to take a stand, even only a VERBAL stand. If you are pro-life and you are faced with this response from someone, keep in mind the following;
"Some abortion-rights advocates, in response to pro-life arguments, emote such bumper-sticker slogans as: "Pro-choice, but personally opposed," "Don't like abortion, don't have one," or "Abortion is against my beliefs, but I would never dream of imposing my beliefs on others." These slogans attempt to articulate in a simple way a common avenue taken by politicians and others who want to avoid the slings and arrows that naturally follow a firm position on abortion. It is an attempt to find "a compromise" or "a middle ground"; it's a way to avoid being labeled "an extremist" of either camp.
(Source: http://www.equip.org/free/DA241.htm )
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2006-11-20 05:23:34 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
The pro-abortionist's unargued assumption of moral relativism to solve the abortion debate reveals a tremendous ignorance of the pro-life position. For the fact is that if one believes that the unborn are fully human (persons), then the unborn carried in the wombs of pro-choice women are just as human as those carried in the wombs of pro-life women. For the pro-lifer, an unborn child is no less a human person simply because the child happens to be living inside Whoopi Goldberg or Cybil Shepherd. Ideology does not change identity.
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2006-11-20 05:25:14 · update #1
Pro-choicers ought to put at least some effort into understanding the pro-life position. When they tell pro-lifers (as they often do) that they have a right to believe what they want to believe, they are unwittingly promoting the radical tactics of Operation Rescue (OR). Think about it. If you believed that a class of persons were being murdered by methods that include dismemberment, suffocation, and burning — resulting in excruciating pain in many cases — wouldn't you be perplexed if someone tried to ease your outrage by telling you that you didn't have to participate in the murders if you didn't want to? That is exactly what pro-lifers hear when abortion-rights supporters tell them, "Don't like abortion, don't have one," or "I'm pro-choice, but personally opposed." In the mind of the pro-lifer, this is like telling an abolitionist, "Don't like slavery, don't own one," or telling Dietrich Bonhoffer, "Don't like the holocaust, don't kill a Jew."
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2006-11-20 05:26:16 · update #2
Consequently, to request that pro-lifers "shouldn't force their pro-life belief on others" while at the same time claiming that "they have a right to believe what they want to believe" is to reveal an incredible ignorance of their position.
Contrary to popular belief, the so-called "pro-choice" position is not neutral. The abortion-rights activist's claim that women should have the "right to choose" to kill their unborn fetuses amounts to denying the pro-life position that the unborn are worthy of protection. And the pro-lifer's affirmation that the unborn are fully human with a "right to life" amounts to denying the abortion-rights position that women have a fundamental right to terminate their pregnancies, since such a termination would result in a homicide. It seems, then, that appealing to moral relativism (or moral pluralism ala Mario Cuomo) to "solve" the abortion debate is an intellectual impossibility and solves nothing.
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2006-11-20 05:27:44 · update #3
And if you think it's just what you like to call "wacko Christians" who believe that abortion is murder, think again:
Lesbians and Gays
http://www.plagal.org/
Atheists and Agnostics
http://www.godlessprolifers.org/home.html
2006-11-20 05:28:24 · update #4
I agree. That is rediculous. Either you think it is wrong or you don't. I am pro life!!! All the way. I do not believe in abortion. I do not condone it. However I DO believe in the rights of that child to live! I'm not going to attack someone who has had an abortion. I'm not perfect and have made my fair share of mistakes. But, if someone close to me is thinking of having an abortion you can bet I will let my voice be heard. I will tell that person that is is wrong and show them verses in the Bible to back up my belief.
2006-11-20 05:30:08 · answer #1 · answered by #3ontheway! 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think I would say it, although I would probably not use exactly those words. I believe that abortion should remain the absolutely last resort of a woman in a desperate situation, but that it is her right to decide when that last resort is necessary. There are so many reasons why a woman might consider abortion, and only she can know the relative importance. Most people say a pregnancy conceived in rape or incest might make a valid exception. This is because it seems horrible to handicap a child with that kind of origin, and because it seems cruel to saddle a woman with a child she will probably hate.
So if you can accept any exceptions at all, you have to accept that it is the woman who is pregnant who has to decide. Now, if you accept that, you know that sometimes women will have abortions that you would not recommend. Even ones you would strongly argue against.
So what about the person who says abortion is always, always wrong? They would only be consistent if they said killing of any kind is always, always wrong. Knowing about self-defense and several other exceptions there, why is it so hard to accept that there are exceptions in killing before birth -- even supposing you call it that, and not eliminating a fetus -- as well as after?
The fact is, we cannot have "100% never" sorts of rules on anything; there are always exceptions. And generally, the people directly involved are the only ones who can say when the exceptions apply.
You don't approve of abortion? Don't have one, by all means. Do not let anyone coerce you or politicize you into having one.
2006-11-20 13:40:12 · answer #2 · answered by auntb93again 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am 100% against making abortion illegal for doctors to perform. The reason is that it doesn't get rid of abortion. The only way to get rid of abortion is through changing society. The short cuts like making things illegal but not addressing the problem, does address the problems.
The question anti-abortion people need to ask is: Why do women what abortions?
From pro-life advocates actions, one would think that they believe the reason women want abortions is that doctors are allowed to preform them. It isn't. If you want to truly get rid of abortion, then this question needs a serious amount of discussion.
Merely making abortions illegal won't stop abortions any better than making alcohol illegal stopped people from drinking it. They both focused on the wrong question to address with a solution.
2006-11-20 17:57:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am telling you "with a straight face" that I think abortion is murder, but I also would fight to the death for a woman to make up her own mind and make her own choice. Right or wrong, she will have to face her God in the end over it.
All Christian Religions agree that the purpose of us being created is to be in the image of God. God put us here to learn and be tempted, to make the right choices and return to his kingdom. I have been told by more than a few clergy that to take free will from someone is an "Evil Act".
So by you trying to legislate morals you are restricting "Free Will", and doing "Evil Deeds". Which came first the chicken or the egg...
Evil is as evil does. People must be free to make their own choices... good or bad and they must be the ones held accountable for their actions.
That is the biggest problem I find with a lot of religious people, they are always trying to force their beliefs on people who do not want it or need it. If you choose to believe something PLEASE stop trying to force me into believing it too.
2006-11-20 14:00:50 · answer #4 · answered by eric_the_red_101 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The bible says: "Thou shall not kill."
That is about as simple and concsie as it can be put.
Since abortion means there is one less soul on earth after the prcoess than before, that means it is killing. I have yet to hear an argument that proves this is not so.
I would not want to be standing before God trying to think up an adequate explanation for aborting a child. He doesn't strike me as being politically correct and wishy washy.
2006-11-20 14:55:17 · answer #5 · answered by dudewheresmydatsun 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i don't believe in abortion so i don't have one.
everyone is different, i am 27 years old,married, have a job and a home, so if i was to get pregnant it would be not problem.
i have never been the a pregnant 14 year old or the woman who is not sure if her baby's father is her boyfriend or the man that raped her. so therefore i would not want to take the right away so i keep quiet.
if a woman decides to keep her baby, i am not the one who is going to financially and emotionally support her. are u going to support her and her baby? i didn't think so.
2006-11-20 13:39:13 · answer #6 · answered by Miki 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I don't agree with you sorry. It technically is the right of woman to choose abortion but someone can think it is wrong. I still think it is murdering and should be against the law though.
2006-11-20 13:33:18 · answer #7 · answered by addict for dramatic 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I see it as, I personally do not hunt animals but I cannot control other people from hunting animals.
Abortion is and always be a controversial subject. Just remember, as passionate you are about your views and beliefs, so is everyone else about theirs.
2006-11-20 13:31:48 · answer #8 · answered by Deana S 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i think i agree even though you wrote a lot and i now have a headache
2006-11-20 13:26:48 · answer #9 · answered by rudi trudi phoenix gordon 7 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋