Abortion????

Question

What is your opinion on abortion?
Do you know any Bible verses about abortion?

In cases of rape or health problems, I'm for it. But anything else, I'm aganst it.

pregnancy from rape is extremely rare. And the only time I think it's ok is if the mother or baby's life is at risk.

Answer 1

i feel abortion is NOT a religious issue. It is a privacy issue between a woman and her doctor.

Edit: so even though it's rare, you would deny a woman the right to abort the fetus that was conceived during a rape? not that I wish you to be raped, but you cannot know what someone is going through without first walking in their shoes.

Answer 2

I personally would not have one. I have been sexually active for nine years, since the age of sixteen. I use birth control and am sexually informed - but if by some chance I did become pregnant, I would carry it to term. The only time I can see myself voluntarily aborting is in a case like Tay-Sachs syndrome or something else that instantly condemns the infant to a life of unimaginable pain. (Perhaps if I were raped, although I hope I am never in such a position. I'm undecided on that issue.)

It should be noted, though, I do not plan to become pregnant; if I want kids, I'm adopting them because there are enough unwanted children out there.

I am not in a position to force others to my beliefs, and I do not believe that forcing women to refrain from abortion should be a matter for the courts, legislature, or executive branch of government. That goes for federal, state, and municipal jurisdictions. Ban it, and it will still be performed, only in medically unsafe conditions and with far riskier procedures. You solve nothing by banning it, only make the issue more severe and the solutions more drastic and desperate.

Answer 3

You are entitled to your opinion, and your right to choose under some circumstances, and not others.
But do understand, today you have a right to make those choices, without someone else making it so you can't, if you should wind up in one of the situations you just described.
Some want to make out that Pro Choice, means Pro Death. The right to choose, includes the right to carry the fetus to term, without someone else making it so you can't.
Guess what? In China, if you have more than one child, the government there says that you can't carry any more pregnancies to term, because they are over populated. Did you know that? Abortion after one child, is pretty much a government mandate there. In China, there is a preference for boy babies, over girl babies. If a couple has a girl baby, sometimes they sell it in order to try again for a boy. If they have more than one baby, they face stiff penalties for that.
Some choice, eh?
Pro choice, can include Pro life. It is not exclusive.
Pro choice, can also include Pro adoption.
You are entitled to your opinon, and your right to choose.
And so am I.
But in order to make the choice what you would do, and in what circumstances, you need to make sure that you will have options to choose from.
Making sure that you have options to choose from, whether those choices are to use birth control to have a planned family, to end an unplanned pregnancy for any reason, or to carry a fetus to term if you want, means that you need to make sure to protect these choices for all women, whether or not you would personally agree with one choice or another.
You must make sure of these things, or lose your own right to decide according to your comfort level, and maybe be forced to carry a pregnancy to term knowing you would die from it, or if you'd been raped, when you might rather make another choice.

You have this choice today, because there was a time when there was no choice. Women died horrible deaths from back room abortions by quack doctors who did the deed on the dining room table with unsterilized instruments.
You have this choice today, because of all the women who died, when in desperation they used things like knitting needles, hangers, and poisons in an attempt to abort the fetus them selves.
You have a choice.
Be grateful for it.
Protect it.

Answer 4

I don't agree with abortion as it is against Islam my religion and because the baby didn't do anything wrong to deserve to die. Only ALLAH has the right to take a life away. If a woman is raped than she can always give the baby up for adoption. It shouldn't be allowed except in the case where the mother could die if she continued with the pregnancy.

Answer 5

It's murder, no matter what. I agree with you. But if a girl was raped and finds out she is pregnant she can give her child up to adoption or just love it twice as much to over come that twisted begining. I mean you never know how someones life is going to turn out. Someone could have been carrying the baby that one day eventually cures cancer, but that had an abortion. If you don't give a person a chance to live nobody will ever be able to see what they would have acheived.

Answer 6

If one sperm makes it to the egg and the other several million do not does that make god a murder?

As a man I doubt I will ever have an abortion. However, I will always defend the right of a woman to do so if she believes she must. And I do not qualify that with if this or that. For what ever reason she thinks she should. Better to abort the kid than have it come into an unloving home and end up a serial killer.

Answer 7

Why do people think that [fetuses] ever had souls? Wouldn't an omnicient god know each and every fetus that would be aborted, or even the vastly greater number that will miscarry, and simply save himself the trouble by not implanting a soul in the first place? Seems to me that a god who implants souls in embryos that he knows will never be born would not be the omnipotent creator of the universe, but rather merely the patron deity of bureaucratic inefficiency.

Answer 8

i think it is wrong. there are verses in the old testament saying that if one hurts a pregnant women and the baby is deformed that the man must pay a fine.
youll probably also hear the verses in pslams about how You knitted me together in my mothers womb and about how all the days of his life were written in Gods book before he was born .
I also knew another really good one but i forgot it. sorry about the abstractness and grammatical errors. my thoughts are all everywhere right now.

Answer 9

in reality the word abortion is not mentioned in bible but alo t of christians like try try use verses from bible and say it refers to abortion when doesnt

Answer 10

It's Ok that you are against it, really. Nobody will ever force to you get an abortion, because nobody likes abortions.

As long as you allow other women to have an abortion when they need one. Slavery is in our passed, thank god. And a woman's body can't be used 9 months for slavery. That would be silly.