Abortion - right or wrong ? Religion?

Question

If you are religious, and you think abortion is wrong because of some old book...
Fair enough if you have considered the whole debate and come to your own opinion, and then never would have an abortion. But how can you justify making decisions for other people based on something that might not be true (well it might not be).
Don't you think that, if you do believe an old text speaks to you, you can live your own life by it, but not use it as justification to control others ?

Answer 1

I am an atheist, and pro-choice from a pargamatic governance standpoint, but you don't need to be religious to consider abortion murder.

Answer 2

This is an interesting question when you take it to stem cells as well.

Abort means to miscarry or disappear. Fulfil means to carry out or bring to realisation. To realise means to make real. Real means "related to things." Therefore, fulfilment means to bring to a condition of being able to relate it to things. Abortion is really talking about a raft of ideas that convince parents that they won't be able to look after the new life. Oligarchs rule in this world. They always have. When there's a watering hole, people want to be near it. The bullies to take first spot need to reproduce so they've got more people to take over when they're not well from all their bullying.

The antidote for all of this scare-mongering is that it's not possible for any parent to predict the future. It's called divination. Occultists claim to be able to do it, but that's only because of the political pressure they have access to. James 4:13, 14 says:
13 Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15 Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. 17 So then, if you know the good you ought to do and don't do it, you sin.

What is God's opinion about relating ideas to things, whether they be "enough" to look after a child with, or technology that relies on stem cells? James 1:8 If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing right. 9 But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.

Answer 3

For me, prevention is better than any solution. With good education not ignorance, woman should be able to control birth (using any contraception available) without have to have an abortion. In many case I agree with abortion but also dispise an abortion. I feel woman who has abortion because she cannot made up her mind up until 3-4 month is just a heartless human being. If she doesn;t want the baby, try to do it 1 -2 week after late menstruation when the fetus is not yet fully developed.

Answer 4

True...but if somethings are not right..it will be pointed out..espically "killing" and abortion is killing...it is because of the old text (quran for me) that i strongly believe that any sort of killing is forbided in islam...people who do not believe in any religion or any God Do they see it fit to kill a fetus?..and i use the word kill cause (no matter how old the text is, todate science is proving what quran proved years ago) that fetus contains the genes, both parents with clear gender either boy or girl... In abortion you are dealing with the physical body and its life, you are destroying the physical body of the fetus not the soul. We cannot kill the soul even if we try. Whether the soul entered the fetus body in the first minute of life or after four months of pregnancy is irrelevant to the abortion issue..Killing is Killing..and no justification for it..IF 9/11 was bad ..and london bombings..cause it killed people...why would anyone try and justify abortion being ok??..its the same thing..the only difference is..in bombings..other people are responsible and in abortion it is your own decision To kill a life so its not as bad??...i think not..its both one and the same...its bad..and when people assume that one should keep ones mouth shut and let others kill in the name of being fair and not imposing ones view so strongly...and condemning such violence...then i am no party to it..and killing unborn babies is wrong! and needs no justification whatso ever...unless you are unwell and pregnancy becomes a life threatening issue..which even in normal circumstances you'd kill anyone if that person was going to kill you...Self defence!!..

Answer 5

Did you pose your question because you really want to know, or just to stir up some controversy?

It seems as if you have made up your mind, but I'll bite.

The problem with abortion is that IT forces one individual to be responsible for another's decisions. To clarify; the child's life (and death) become controlled by the aborting parent. How do you justify that?

Look, murder is murder. It doesn't matter if you're not wanted, unplanned, too small, too old, imperfect or what have you. No one needs to justify not murdering.

And yes, I'd be happy to take in the unwanted children in the world.

Answer 6

I'm an atheist but don't think I could ever have an abortion. Scientifically speaking, aborting even a feotus is destroying life as is pulling up weeds or hunting. One minute you have a living organism and the next it's dead. I don't believe in killing anything really, however, I am pro-choice. I don't beleive that anyone should have the right to force a woman to give birth to a child she does not want. It's also not fair for the child either. To be born in a world where it's not wanted, to be potentially abused or neglected. If the pro-lifers agreed to adopt and take care of all the unwanted children then fine, but they don't. So abortion is neither right nor wrong, just like killing anything or anyone, it depends on the circumstances.

Answer 7

I believe abortion is wrong as it is a life as soon as it conceived.
The 'right' of the mother to decide the outcome ended at conception. She had the 'right' not to bring a life into the world by using contraception.

From the human standpoint man does not know the potential of the life that is blotted out by abortion. Had abortion been legalized and condoned in early times, the world would no doubt have lost the contribution of some of its greatest minds and talents.....

A professor at the UCLA Medical School presented the following case history to his students:
A woman who suffers from tuberculosis is pregnant. Her husband has syphilis. There are three children in the family. One is blind, another deaf, and the other suffers from tuberculosis. Yet another child died in infancy.
Under the circumstances, most of the students recommended an abortion.
They were then informed by their Professor: “Congratulations, you’ve just killed Beethoven!”

My point is that that life in the womb has the 'right' to live

Answer 8

You seem like a logical person.

So my main problem with abortion is the lack of responsibility it creates in society. We all know that when a man and a women engage in intercourse their is always some sort of percentage that a female may get pregnant no matter what form of protection you use.

However most people today act like it was some sort of miracle that it happened. The result of becoming pregnant is producing an offspring. This is a fact of life and so having an abortion to me is a lack of respect of being a responsible adult engaging in sexual relations.

Answer 9

Let's leave religion aside.

Murder is defined as the willful termination of the life of a human being.

Life is medically defined as having a beating heart and functioning brain synapses.

Human being is defined as being offspring of human parents of the homo sapiens classification.

A fetus inside the woman's womb meets the definition of a "living human being" between 6 and 10 weeks post-conception. After 6 weeks, the fetus can genarally feel pain. After the 8th week, the fetus can move on its own.

Women generally discover that they are pregnant from 5-7 weeks post-conception. In other words, abortion should technically only be LEGAL for a week or so after the woman discovers she is pregnant.

As for right and wrong, that is for each person to decide.

Answer 10

...Well, sir, I'll jump on your bandwagon if you can prove to me a fetus is not a human.
...Pray tell, sir, how do you determine what is right and what is wrong? Do you have a sourcebook of truth and guidebook for life and relationship with God?
...You are betting the Bible is not true, on what do you base this? If it is true, then it is the sourcebook of truth for mankind, whether they choose to believe it or not, and they will be subject to what God says.
...One final thought - are you one of those folks who would move heaven and earth to save an unborn eagle in the egg, but somehow have trouble identifying an unborn human being in the womb and see no problem in killing a helpless, innocent child, even to the point of it being 3/4 of the way out of the birth canal?

Answer 11

I don't think it is wrong. I KNOW it is, because it is murder of an innocent.

I am a Christian, yes, but I can also come up with logical arguments against it. Some have already been mentioned here. Here is one I have never seen anyone address before: What gives doctors the right to murder a human being, when regular Americans do not have that right?