Is abstinence really another kind of abortion?

Question

I heard someone say, "what if Einstein had been aborted". And I thought, "well, gee, what if his parents never had sex in the first place?"

Which brings us to the deeply philosophical question: is abstinence murder?

Answer 1

following a train of thought to it's ridiculously illogical conclusion I see

Answer 2

What if Einstein's dad was infertile?

No not a deeply philosophical question at all - if every single sperm created a baby - now that would mean overcrowding the earth and we'd destroy ourselves very quickly. Every woman has a limited # of eggs and if everyone of those became a person - that too would be alot of people.

I've never heard of abstinence in marriage. That's absurd. If Einstein's parents never met - perhaps he got the brains from either the sperm or the egg - so it's a matter of chance - yet it is destiny - I mean - if you study how pregnancies occur - the chances of it happening at all and resulting in a healthy live birth are quite miraculous. So, with that being said - once you have conception - that in itself is totally a miracle.

Abstinence isn't murder - it's simply denying the possibility of new life until you have a stable family unit with marriage as a part of that. Again, I've NEVER heard of abstinence within marriage - absolutely absurd.

Any # of possibilities exist with millions of people all over the planet - the mix of genes to produce GREAT people would be practically infinite. But the miracle of a relationship of one man and one woman for life creating a stable family unit and then having that huge piece in place - giving children an opportunity to be born - and then having that actually happen is beyond miraculous! Why should you stop destiny once a child has been conceived? If conception doesn't occur in the first place then it gives someone else somewhere all over the planet to become that Einstein sooner or later.

Answer 3

Is this another question to bait Christians with?
The point of being anti-abortion is the fact that a fetus is a developing, living organism which, if allowed to grow, will be a born as a real human being. If it is a human being when it comes out of the womb than it had to be a human being when it started to grow in the womb. If it weren't human throughout gestation then women could have kittens, or puppies, or lambs. However they won't because a person is genetically human from conception to death.
Sperm and eggs, by themselves, cannot develop into human beings or anything else. Therefore they are not humans and don't need and deserve the same kind of protection that a fetus (developing baby) would.

Answer 4

No, abortion by some is claimed to be murder because it is the ending of a life. Abstinence in the first chance does not created a life to be killed, the egg is just a single cell that has no meaning for its existance.

Answer 5

No. That's a ridiculous suggestion. Abstinence is prevention; abortion is termination. The key difference is that abortion takes something that has been created and destroys it; abstinence never creates it in the first place. Murder is only "murder" when you kill something that was already there (such as a fetus). Saying abstinence is murder is like saying I was dead when I wasn't born. I wasn't dead; I just wasn't alive.

Answer 6

Actually, it is a deep question. It has been pondered down through the ages in multiple forms. The traditional approach in some religions is to simply outlaw all forms of birth control. In other words, women should be baby-making machines controlled by their men, with no right to choose whether or not they have a baby. I don't find this to be necessary, however, from a biblical standpoint. God did say, "Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth..." but He did not say, "Wear yourselves out by never stopping to procreate." The Bible advocates that we live within our means, and not come to poverty and ruin for a lack of planning. We don't need to feel guilty for not having children, if this is our choice, or our circumstances. If we have children, we have the responsibility of raising them to adulthood in good care.

If you should ask why I refer back to the Bible on this, it is the ONLY moral authority for the matter. Without God saying "Thou shalt not kill" we have no law, and therefore, there would be no such a thing as murder...and abortion, or even outright murder, could not be considered wrong.

Abortion, in and of itself, should not be considered murder either. There are thousands of abortions each year that occur involuntarily, as a simple rejection of the fetus by the mother's body. If the mother does not choose to abort the baby in this way, i.e. miscarriage, how can she be held responsible? Does God do this? Is it wrong? Or is it just a fact of life--a result of sin on this planet?

No one will say abortion is ideal. But what if we have a law making every mother who has an abortion a murderer? I'd sure hate to see someone in handcuffs or jail, or, perish the thought, executed, for "murder" incurred involuntarily through miscarriage. No, this is why I would oppose any laws on the subject. We don't need police investigations into every abortion to determine its cause--or the suspicion of every want-to-be mother who miscarries.

Answer 7

No abstinence is not a murder or abortion at all.
For abortion there should be something to abort.

First go through the defination of Abstinence

Answer 8

I don't think so because he or she was not concieved. So no killing of what is not there. If he was then a lost genuis but you can never tell what the future will bring for our children. Abstinence is just abstinence because no one is being murder.

Answer 9

No it isn't a type of abortion. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity after marriage is the only correct way to have sex.

Answer 10

According tothe American Heritage Dictionary:
Abortion:n.:1. Induced termination of a pregnancy and expulsion of an embryo or fetus before it is viable 2. A miscarriage.

So technically no; there is no expulsion of a fetus.

This also precludes going back in a time machine and preventing the meeting of said parents.

Answer 11

You have to have a human life involved to be murder. Abstinance does not create a life to kill or murder so to answer your question, I would say no.