"Thou Shall NOT KILL"
2007-03-03 15:43:57 · 46 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I agree. Every abortion kills an innocent human being. This is not an opinion, but a simple biological fact. By the time most women know they are pregnant (just 3 weeks after conception), their baby's heart is already beating. Virtually no abortions are committed before 6-7 weeks, at which point the baby has tiny fingers and recordable brain waves. The average age of an aborted baby in America is 10 weeks. At 8 weeks, the child is full-formed, with all her organs functioning. She can suck her thumb, and if her palm is pricked, she will open her mouth and pull her hand away.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/3847319.stm
2007-03-04 06:43:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I agree, but I also support a woman's right to choose. Infanticide is an unfortunate, but unavoidable, part of human existance. Every now and then, someone will not be able to support another child and killing that child will be the best option. In the ancient days, the child would be left to die on a hillside and noone got all indignant. over it. Sometimes killing, even murder, is neccesary. Could Bush have invaded Iraq, deposed a horrid dictator Saddam, without any blood being shed? The ancient Hebrews had some good warriors who fought, and killed, to protect their families. Is that too murder? I'm glad you are a moral and ethical person, but making abortion illegal would only lead to even worse things happening. You needn't make every moral of yours the Law of the Land. Now an abortion is performed by a medical doctor, in a clinical setting, with the proper sterilized tools. An illegal abortion would be performed by someone who is less than a medical proffessional, in a place that is not neccessarily clean or sterile, with tools that are not the right ones or sterilized. Women will still seek the procedure, at a greater risk to themselves. If you say, 'they get what they deserve', it just shows that you really don't care about the woman at all. Or, she might birth the child only to kill it in another way. Or she might hate the child for making her a poor, single mother who struggles to care for an unwanted burden. Forcing a mother to birth unwanted children is a crime against women. Blaming the woman for her situation is arrogent, uncompassionate, and shows that you live in a tower. Abortion is murder, but I'm ok with that. The alternate to legal abortions is far more gruesome. When you really get down to it, it's part of a plan to destroy the middle class. Who is most likely to be hurt most by being forced to carry an unwanted child? Poor people can't afford abortions in the first place. Wealthy people can send their daughter to Sweden to have the procedure done professionally and without loss of their family honor. It's the Middle Class, living paycheck to paycheck and not being very good planners, who a single unplanned pregnancy could be forced into poverty. At least half the guys who father the unwanted pregnancy bail out, leaving a pregnant single mother who barely makes enough to get by on just her income alone. Now, don't get all judgemental on that single mother, we all fall in love and many have tasted the temptations of the flesh, but she's the one who might have to pay the price for it. It's no more her fault than it is the father's. Single mothers is the largest and quickest growing segment of the population that is under the Poverty Line. Being a single mother can make finding a life partner trickier. Double, triple jepardy even. Condemned to poverty, working hard to make enough money, coming home and working to keep the house in order, sacrifising everything she ever had for a child she didn't plan for or want. Sure life is sacred, so why destroy her life for a child's? Maybe if she was just as wise and holy as you, she wouldn't have fallen to temptation? Once again, get out of the tower and go meet real people. Abortion is murder and I'm just fine with it.
2007-03-03 16:03:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
What would you rather, a dead baby that can be used for stem cell research and save countless lives or a child who was a mistake and the parents hate, and the child is neglected? And the child eventually goes suicide cause it has been left alone for too long and no one loves it. There you go, have a nice day.
If you dont want an abortion, dont get one, if you need one, such as after rape, you get one. All it does is it saves one life from being horrible and helping someone else.
2007-03-03 16:18:53 · answer #3 · answered by kysteves 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's different, that's why. No other situation involves someone else's body. The fetus is not yet a life. Even the Bible defines life as starting with the first breath. And about 75% of people think that women should be allowed to decide whether or not to continue their pregnancy. If it was murder, you wouldn't get that many people thinking it was okay.
2007-03-03 15:51:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I disagree. In order for you to understand why, you must get up off your soap box and learn about a thing called the law. Murder is a legal term, and abortion does not qualify. I notice that the quotation that you provided referred to "kill", but not to murder.
2007-03-03 16:25:02 · answer #5 · answered by Fred 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
1) it does not say thou shalt not kill. it says thou shalt not murder.
2) you cannot murder something that is not a person.
3) a body without a soul is not a person.
4) generally speaking, the soul does not attach to the body until later in the term, and/or sometimes if/when the potential-body is certain to mature as useful and needed.
2007-03-03 15:49:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I want some consistancy in "thou shalt not kill." Be anti-war and anti-death penalty, too, and then I'll respect the anti-abortion position. I still won't agree with you, but I'll respect the lot of you a lot more. :)
In the meantime, I'll still be a medical provider of abortion procedures and it won't weigh on my conscience at all.
2007-03-03 15:49:52 · answer #7 · answered by shoujokakumeijchan 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Agreed.
2007-03-03 15:48:07 · answer #8 · answered by Serena 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I agree with you. I think that people getting abortion are basically killing a living person and a gift from god. People who get pregnant and dont want to, got themselve into it and should have been ready for the consequense. People who cannot take care of there there unborn child should put it up for adoption for a person who can care and love YOUR child and wont kill it.
2007-03-03 15:49:31 · answer #9 · answered by zee 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The commandment is actually thou shalt not murder. The church changed it from the original Hebrew.
2007-03-03 16:06:00 · answer #10 · answered by LadySuri 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋