babies themselves are precious lives but i'm sorry a fetus IMO is not. Why do you all get hung up over a fetus? it's alive yet so is bacteria, skin cells, microscopic organisms, chicken fetuses. So what if it's a human fetus. really. I don't hate babies or people but sometimes i think people get too caught up in emotions to discuss abortion realistically.
2007-04-16 06:18:19 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
miscarriages happen so frequently. I don't see people whining over that just because it's not done by the womans choice.
2007-04-16 06:19:12 · update #1
God of the Bible killed many babies and pregnant women. Does any christian think only adults were drowned in the flood?
What about God "ripping open pregnant women" in the bible.
What about all the unused embryos destroyed in fertility clinics. They were created knowing a percentage would be killed.
People just hear something and then they all jump on the bandwagon, not even thinking about it.
If killing of fetuses and babies is OK for God, then it's OK for us as well.
2007-04-16 06:29:58 · answer #1 · answered by bandycat5 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
hummm- because unlike cancer, bacteria it is not out to harm you. It is a living growing thing that is wanting to get out of your body.
I don't see that the issue will ever be resolved. People were doing it in back alleys before it was legal. At least now its safe Ii guess.
I am prolife- but I am a Christian and I guess I've learned that God judges our actions and he gave us free will to decide.
Although I feel very strongly about it- I can't stop anyone from having an abortion. No-one can. People still do it on their own. You can change the laws but it won't make it stop.
I truly believe its wrong but its not for me to decide what another person does.
I don't think I am being complacent just realistic. I think education is the key. I also think the RU486 is helpful for rape cases.
2007-04-16 13:27:14 · answer #2 · answered by momof2 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Emotions aside, I think many people's reactions in this particular issue is rooted in the fact that all of us were at one point just a clump of cells or a fetus, and many wonder as to the justice of some being deprived of existence and others allowed to grow and flourish. Further, I think others might wonder that if life at its earliest stages is not carefully protected, it is only a matter of time before powers greater than an individual begin to make decisions about what kind of human life is valuable and what is not, and given the experience of totalitarianism in the twentieth century, one might have good reason to be concerned about this...
2007-04-16 13:46:48 · answer #3 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is largley in the definition of exactly when it can be considered to be alive, and why that definition should be correct.
For instance you might argue that only adults are truly self-aware and that it is therefore okay to kill anybody under the age of 25 or so. This IS absurd, but where do you draw the line on self-awareness, and should self-awareness be considered a factor in the rightness or wrongness of abortion?
The whole abortion issue is filled with these matters of degree, and so for anyone to say that "abortion is definitely X, Y or Z" is inherently wrong.
2007-04-16 13:23:14 · answer #4 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fetus is latin for baby.
Then you have the whole sliding slope arguement. Did you know that Marge Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, was an avid anti-abortionist? Not because of any later-in-life conversion, but because she saw the abhorent barbarism in the procedure.
There are serious medical effects to abortion before you even get into the legaleese of the arguement. I am more than prepared to argue abortion without emotions from a pro-life perspective.
2007-04-16 13:23:03 · answer #5 · answered by lundstroms2004 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I agree with you. Noone cares when they use antibacterial soap, but they fret over abortion. They are virtually the same thing. Killing small cells. Once the fetus is able to live without the support from the mother, then it could be considered murder...but a zygote is not a human,
2007-04-16 13:23:04 · answer #6 · answered by country_girl 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
A lot of people believe (usually for religious reasons) that those cells are a human being from the time of fertilization. And that's fine (in fact, I'm one of them).
But where these people are dead wrong is in seeking to use the law to force others to abide by their beliefs.
2007-04-16 13:26:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Miscarriage is a natural death, having a Doctor stick a needle into your head and suck out your brains while you are alive is not natural.
Murder is Murder. Murder is considered killing of another Human, a baby is a Human. Bacteria, microscopic organisms and chicken fetuses are not.
Google Abortion especially third trimester Abortion.
It is so much more than "Baby Cells"
Peace!
2007-04-16 13:24:42 · answer #8 · answered by C 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
You're correct. Babies are precious, and are the only people who are truly innocent. However, cells that have no concept of self-awareness are not living beings--they are simply collections of living cells.
2007-04-16 13:23:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
OMG - apparently you've never known someone who has gone through a miscarriage!
as far as abortion, how come the baby doesn't get a choice? how come the father doesn't get a choice. yes it's the woman's body, but why be so selfish to think that it's ONLY the woman who is involved? there are 3 lives to take into consideration - the mother's, the father's AND the baby's!
2007-04-16 13:21:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋