Why do people who are pro life and anti this, pro that ,so quick to push there viewpoints on the world and think the world needs to follow there morales and beliefs they set forth.
Is this not a free country we live in? Can we not do as we chose without having to obey laws that are based on someones personal belief?
Are we still free or are you slowly taking that away from us?
How about we stop bitching and complaing about what someone else is doing and quit lobbying for our own personal laws and get rid of some of them??
2007-01-30 08:08:54 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The really funny part about the anti-choice people (calling them pro-life is innaccurate unless they also support social policy and legislation to support the children of the poor and the mothers...in which case they would vote Democrat) is how they claim the aboortion issue is based on ancient morality codes. In fact the anti-abortion movement began recently (in the late 1800's) as part of Victorian culture. Abortion has been around for a long, long, time. Much longer then the anti-abortion movement. Practised by Christians, in Christian cultures.
I don't agree with them, but I don't have a fundamental problem with most anti-abortion beliefs. They have a right to their beliefs. They have relgious convictions that it is murder. They think murder is a crime. They have a right to vocally advance their policy, and a right to pursue it in the legal and political arena. That is a consistent belief, regardless of whether or not it's based on religion.
My most fundamental problem with them is that the Pro-Life party....Republican....also supports legislation to cut economic support policies for the mothers and children that would be forced to keep the children, or use adoption.
The majority of this nation is Pro-choice. The majority of pro-choice people are less committed to the issue...which is why the anti's are often more effective in politicizing their views. I think the answer is for us to elect legislators that are vehemently pro-choice....and then to use our poloitical influence to force them into passing a law protecting abortion.
This issue, like so many others, ends up being decided by the Supreme Court because our politicians lack the courage to tackle divisive issues. I am adamantly pro-choice...and a liberal...but decisions like Roe V. Wade ultimately don't help us. They give nine guys no one voted for the power to establish US policy. I want my elected officials establishing US policy. Just as the Supreme Court did an excellent job in supporting policy I really like (Roe V. Wade, Brown Vs Board, Abington V. Shemp, Griswold V. Connecticut), they have also made decisions that I think are reprehensible....like Dredd Scott. Take a look at the current Supreme Court. Do you want these guys deciding American Law? Quite a few of them...notably Scalia and Roberts...are TERRIFYING. Both of them are far too extremist to win elections in most areas. But they sit on the bench. I think it would be in the interest of everyone to allow these issues to be settled by legislators. Especially when we (pro-choicers) have the numbers. Sorry if I got a bit off topic.
2007-01-30 08:34:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
It's ok for people to buy into Mr. Bush's lies about our reasons for going to war and sending thousands of troops to the middle east to lose their lives for false reasons (and not taking his responsiblity in their deaths) and NOT have a problem with it but when someone makes the choice to not continue a pregnancy then all hell breaks loose! I'm pro choice so long as the person is less than 3 weeks pregnant but if someone makes the choice beyond that then that person has to live with it. I am, however, against women who continually have abortions as a form of birth control. If you do it once, make sure you take protective messures to prevent another unwanted pregnancy (though it should be done in the first place). And as far as the person who said the baby is not part of the mother....the baby is very much apart of the mother, even out of the womb. Without the mother's & father's DNA, that single child would not exist.
2007-01-30 16:50:36 · answer #2 · answered by Maureen B 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You are not free to kill for your connivance! You mentioned Pro Life! Are you Pro Death?
Any female that does not want to have a child, has the choice not to have the child! She just keeps her legs closed, her panties on her butt, and say NO, to the male!
Unless the male beats her and rapes her, it is then IMPOSSIBLE for her to become pregnant! The female has the choice!
Should she chose to do the things that nature has put in place to bring forth life, and open her legs, accept the male into her body,
in doing so she has freely elected the possibility of becoming pregnant, and has NO RIGHT to destroy the life she chose to
bring into this world!
The age of life is not important, as an excuse to put the life to death, even as it is not considered that after humans reach a certain age it is OK to kill them because they are old.
Your so called freedom does not give you the right to take away the foredoom of a life just because it is still dependent upon its' mother!
To take away living life is to KILL! Killing is Killing! And no one may kill, let alone to kill for their pleasure!
As for laws and beliefs, Integrity, Virtue, Ethics, Morality and responsibility are the tests that every law must pass, for the really valid purpose of laws is to provide for all peoples to come together, unfettered with the uglyness that chains the world to crime and war, death and killing.
No Law should violate the Ten Commandments, the cornor stone of all just LAWS. Too, The Commandments are summed up in one word, "LOVE". And in LOVE, there is no place for KILLING, not the old, young, middle age or unborn!
2007-01-30 16:42:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Excuse me! I have as much right to my opinion as you do. If I want to protest the unnecesarry slaughter of babies, then I will do so! It is my God given right as a citizen of the United States and if you don't like it, move!
The only time pro-choice/pro-life becomes an issue around me is when one of you pro-choicers are trying to shove your "ideals" down my throat! How dare I stand up for the unborn. How dare I care about the welfare of the mothers who have abortions. How dare I advicate adoption as an option. Oh, how dare you tell me I'm evil for what I believe in. I have never told anyone who is pro-choice that they are not free to believe as they do. I have never been as digusting as you and suggesting that we "get rid of them".
In case it's slipped your notice, abortion is still legal. What freedom have we taken away besides saying that third trimester abortion is bad! What kind of killer are you to take a fully or near fully formed baby and murder it! We can't stop you from getting an abortion earlier, but I promise you, I will protest it with all my soul. That is my right!
2007-01-30 16:22:26 · answer #4 · answered by sister steph 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, I guess because they feel there are some things that need to be considered universally moral or immoral. Like murder. It's pretty clear to everyone that murder is wrong, but try inserting that into your tirade. We could make murder legal if the majority felt it should be that way. Do you think people who still thought murder should be illegal and considered immoral should sit quietly by?
Much like the whole segregation issue. Many people felt it was morally wrong to continue segregation and discrimination. Others thought they needed to "stop bitching and complaining about what someone else is doing and quit lobbying for our own personal laws." I'm certainly glad they did not follow your advice.
2007-01-30 16:17:18 · answer #5 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Pro choice people do the same. It's not fair to ask us to sit down, shut up and take it, because then that takes freedom for us. The last time I looked the Christian community is losing more and more of our rights. We can't pray in school, but Jewish people can stick to there traditions and be excused, Muslims can wear their traditional clothes and not be bothered, Arian nation can put up their flags, and there's many more religions or movements can express themselves. When we are wearing something or giving our opinion that means were being pushy. I think that we are entitled to ask for changes in the law just as much as you.
2007-01-30 16:29:05 · answer #6 · answered by Phoebe 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The reason that pro-life people are forcing their views on you rather than just accepting the fact that you may see things differently is very simple. If you saw your neighbor chasing her five year old child around with a knife, what would you do? Would you mind your own business, since it was her child, not yours? Probably not.
The unborn baby is a person, who is unable to defend himself/herself. That is why pro-life people are trying to persuade the parents not to kill their unborn baby.
Killing another person is never a matter of choice.
2007-01-30 16:19:09 · answer #7 · answered by iraqisax 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
These are opinions,we can not force anyone to change.I much prefer to hear a real opinion from a real person than someone throws a wikipedia or some other stupid linkup.My opinion abortion is murder, I would not do it.
2007-01-30 16:19:36 · answer #8 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why do people go around this country telling poeple not to rob liquor stores and rape people? I assume you think you can tell someone not to murder someone else, right? It's the same thing with abortion. I have the right to tell people not to kill unborn babies. The baby is not part of the mother.
2007-01-30 16:19:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Why are pro abortion people so quick to kill an innocent unborn baby simply because they themselves escaped their own mother's womb with their very own lives. What give you people more of a right to experience life than other unborn babies. Sounds hypocritical to me.
2007-01-30 16:15:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 3⤋