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First off, I discourage abortion and think it should be an option of last resort and only made with very serious consideration.

Many people arguing against abortion do so on a religious contention that the soul is formed at conception or sometime soon thereafter. FOR THE SAKE OF THIS ARGUMENT WE WILL ASSUME THIS TO BE TRUE.

Terminating a pregnancy would release the soul from the embryo which surly god wouldn't deny entrance into heaven. Even taking the original sin concept literally, it would not apply in this case as man is BORN with original sin and no birth occurred here. This soul would in essence be a purly innocent angel.

If I were a religious person I wouldn't see this as all that bad of a situation. In fact it almost seems preferable to living a physical life of potential pain and suffering. Wouldn't the religious argument against abortion be much stronger if they claimed the soul was joined to the body at birth?

2007-05-09 02:43:46 · 33 answers · asked by anon010101 2 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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Yes, it is bad. It is the taking of a human life or a potential human life, if you will.

2007-05-09 02:49:52 · answer #1 · answered by nowyouknow 7 · 5 4

If you allow the destruction of a being that you consider to be alive and to have a soul, then you are on a very slippery slope.

First, what gives you the right to take away someone else's life? How do you know that child is going to have a life of potential pain and suffering? We all have "potential" pain and suffering. How would you like it if your parents decided they didn't want you having pain and suffering and decieded to end your life ("after all, he's religious, he'll probably go to heaven...')

Second, any religous person understands the sanctaty of life - life is a wonderous creation of God. Every person is unique and beautiful. God forms every one of us.

No, the arguement against abortion would not be stronger if it was claimed the soul-body united at birth. Actually, that would be just the opposite. I'm not really sure how that would affect abortion in any way other than to legitimize it.

You have to define a starting point for LIFE. LIFE begins at conception and has nothing to do with the passage through the birth canal. In the womb, you have a unique being with unique DNA, a heartbeat, etc. etc. There is really no difference between a 2 week old baby and a newborn baby that is born 2 weeks early and a baby that has 2 weeks left before it will be born. They ALL depend on the mother for life, they ALL have their own body, they ALL are unique lives.

So which 2 week old babies do you want to kill just because they might "potentially" have a life of pain or suffering?

2007-05-09 03:06:50 · answer #2 · answered by bwjordan 4 · 6 1

The reason the idea of abortion bothers me has no reference to the soul.

Human embryos and fetuses are undeniably alive, and they are human -- so, my ethic that it is wrong to take a human life applies to them too. The fact that they are not self-aware at the time does not make it okay in my eyes.

I also don't see birth as an objective dividing line between those who can be killed and those who can't. An unborn "fetus" at 39 weeks is really the same kind of being as a one-week-old baby who was born at 38 weeks, except that they get their oxygen and nourishment in a different manner. Going back to earlier stages of prenatal development, I never see any such objective dividing line, not even the presence of measurable brain wave activity.

However, I realise not everyone sees things the way I do -- even though I have confidence in my conclusions, I realise people with other views do, too.

2007-05-09 03:15:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

the international isn't over populated. there's a lot room in the international and numerous human beings die daily so it evens out. Abortion IS homicide it really is an alive individual, with a beating coronary heart, created by God. God would not choose human beings to "deliver Him little ones swifter." He gave us children, and under no circumstances to be killed earlier beginning. What if the aborted toddler grows as a lot as locate a treatment for most cancers or do different good things? properly, you blew it by murdering it. tremendous interest. merely have the toddler and positioned it up for adoption particularly of killing it. What in case you made some thing awesome and someone did not like it so that they destroyed it? many women who've abortions experience rigidity and melancholy. haven't got ABORTIONS!!!!!!

2016-11-26 21:30:20 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Actually you operate purely on logic, reason rationailty.


You look to the future to see what kind of life you could give to a kid.

Example in many third world relgious countries the church makes people not use condoms as against god so they say and no abortions...


Result the streets are awash with homeless abandoned children, most of which can only survive by stealing or more like being child and I mean well below age 11 prostitutes to peadophiles many of them chrisitains some of whom pay in glue pots for the kid to get out of it and rot their brain.

In many other cases as the girls was young she will end up resenting the kid and there wont be much love, she wont be able to cope or provide properly which will mess up the kid and again lead to crime and prision and prision rape and victems.

But the reality of it is these relgious types who accuse say guys checking out playboy of seeing girls as sex objects treat pregnant teenager as something far worse.


Nothing more then walking baby incubators whos well being is considered nothing where is if a choice between the girl and the baby the people take the baby just like a rapist who wanted a baby would rape a girl them make her give birth , slicing her open if need by.

Then dump her and treat her like dirt calling her a whore and slut etc.


Funny how its the anti abortionists who are also the same ones who go ballistic when schools give out proper sex ed or condoms in school or put their daughters on the pill and also hate gays.

its all about seeing girls as nothing more then meat sacks to gestate more babies who they will care nothing for , its just a numbers game for them and in many cases the baby ends up in a church run kids homes getting readily raped from the priest who condems abortion and birth control


An abortion is not a bad thing... its a practical and sensible minor operation to control fertility and popualtion numbers, the foetus is not aware or a proper life form especailly when talking abortion pills which act on whats basically a bunch of cells

2007-05-09 22:50:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Ok let's leave religion on the side for a moment... As soon as the sperm ovulates the egg there is life in that tiny "seed" that means it may not look like a baby but guess what it has heart beat, so looking at from the medical point of view it is a leaving thing so if you kill it soon or later you will be killing a leaving thing or a human being, so why is abortion bad because your are killing!. Now If you want to put religion into this the reason why religion is against it is because God condems killing. I know there is circumstances that the baby is deform etc.. but I personally don't think is an excuse because you don't go around and say oh look this one is a short person let me kill him or this looks ugly let me kill him. Is the same way.

2007-05-09 03:02:34 · answer #6 · answered by gap 2 · 2 1

The soul is put in that body at birth, God breathe into man & man became a living soul. But now listern very closely, Yes I am against abortion, The only abortion I would ever OK would be if that fetus is killing the mother. I have always said that many atheists say that life does not begin until birth, That is wrong, If they want to think that the embryo is not alive, then why do people have abortions, & if that fetus is not alive as many believes, just let it laid there in the womb of the mother, & see what happens 9 months later.Anything that does not have life will not produce anything.

2007-05-09 02:57:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2 3

Abortion is horrendous. It is taking an innocent child's life. Jesus places special care upon children, in fact stating that the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to "such as these". Remember, we must come to Jesus with faith like a child. Now, God created man in His own image, so by taking a life, you are killing someone created in God's own image.

Besides, how arrogant to say death is preferable to living on Earth. Who are you to claim that the child would rather die than live here? This world is not a very comforting place to live, yet I don't want to die. I'll die when the Lord says it's time, but not before. He is the giver of life, and the only one who can take it away. Instead of saying let's kill children before they're born, why not simply say let's make the world a better place for our children to live?

Now, that being said, I never use religion or the Bible to argue against abortion. Science proves that abortion is murder, people just don't want to accept it. Science and reason is a mortal enemy of the pro-choice position.

2007-05-09 05:19:01 · answer #8 · answered by new_creation2005 2 · 1 1

The "soul" is an imaginary concept. It is just like "angels", "devils", "mermaids", "dragons", "ghosts" and any number of other unseen entities you want to name off that people ascribe some type of behaviour and character to. They are mental concepts and thats all they are. They are not real, not physical and can therefore have no effect whatsoever on real physical beings (other than that psychological effect that the person who believes such things are real wants to allow to themselves - but this then is a psychological phenomenon inside the person and not something caused by a real outside source). With that said, abortions, when performed prior to there being a well developed neural network and an emerged conciousness operating in that network, is nothing more than the removal of a few cells of tissue - not much different really from having a tooth extracted, a cancerous finger or organ removed or having a living functioning part of your own brain removed when it is cancerous or in some other way in danger of ending your life (prone to stroke or anuryesm for example). In the case of the brain you could even say there is some conciousness there, however, if doctors told you they needed to remove part of it to prevent you having a stroke there that could kill you, you would approve of it in a heartbeat.

2007-05-09 02:59:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

Your argument contains some logic until you understand the purpose of earth life. Earth life is a great blessing to Heavenly Father's children, pain and suffering notwithstanding. We're sent here to gain a body and to learn by experience what happens when people make both good and bad choices. To kill a child before it's born denies that child of this learning experience.

Abortion is wrong on so many levels I have real trouble trying to understand how someone can be so destitute of light as to believe it's a women's right:
- I believe the pre-born have rights as an individual and killing them is the ultimate violation of those rights.
- The women usually does have a choice prior to conception. We should be free to make choices, but it's unreasonable to be able to choose the consequences of our actions.
- Even in the cases of rape it seems wrong to kill an innocent child for the crimes of the father.
- The scriptures talk about the shedding of innocent blood. There are very few completely innocent individuals, but pre-born individuals fit that description.

2007-05-09 05:18:58 · answer #10 · answered by Bryan Kingsford 5 · 0 1

First of all the verse that you are referring too, says, "We were CONCEIVED in sin". Yes, the aborted baby would go straight to heaven, due to the mercy of God. However, whose choice should it be? Ours or God's who created that baby? Am I misinterpreting you? If I am forgive me- you are saying it would be better for the aborted child due to the fact that they will live a life of pain and suffering? First of all, the woman who chooses abortion- can live the rest of her life in pain and suffering for what she did- I know this to be true, because I have counseled women who have had abortions. Hearts of those precious babies are beating at 3 weeks and most women do not even know they are pregnant then. Life begins at conception- that is the best argument for no abortion that I can think of-

2007-05-09 04:30:18 · answer #11 · answered by AdoreHim 7 · 1 0

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