Why do the republicans think that Abortion is a political issue?

Question

Why do they tie it to christianity?

Abortion is not even mentioned by Chirst and it is used by republicans as a political tool. Give me specific scripture that Chirst spoke about Abortion.

Answer 1

because it is politics that made it an issue

Answer 2

What type of issue would you call it? It's an issue that all Americans have a thought on and the majority has always said that abortion is wrong. Murder is wrong, life starts the second the sperm enters the egg, the only time abortion should be allowed is when a child is conceived through rape, incest or the mothers life is in danger and that's all. As to the tie to Christianity God tells us to go forth and multiply and that thou shall not kill.
By the way you should pay the same respect to the word Christianity as you did abortion. Use capitals where they belong. You will never get it because you are greater than any man even God in your own eyes...

Answer 3

It began in 1980. interior the previous election, maximum fundamentalist Christians had voted for Jimmy Carter because of the fact he became right into a honest Christian and his sister became into even a in call for evangelist. interior the 1980 marketing campaign, the Republicans 'engineered' the abortion difficulty to get fundamentalists to vote for Reagan. Reagan promised to propose a constitutional exchange to declare the pre-born 'human' and for this reason make it homicide to have an abortion. The GOP corrupted some in call for televangelists to make abortion a brilliant difficulty of their coaching, like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, and had them form a coalition of non secular communities named the ethical Majority. till now 1980 the anti-abortion circulate became into overwhelmingly Roman Catholic. Protestant Christians the two disagreed or weren't constructive while life honestly starts. For this election somebody desperate that life starts while the sperm hits the egg. An unfertilized egg isn't a individual, a fertilized egg is a individual. This became right into a synthetic and arbitrary selection, on condition that maximum fertilized eggs do not even implant on the uterine wall, they pass top out with the lady's next era. the alternative became into not Biblical or perhaps technical, it became into entirely political. The Republicans additionally promised to nominate to the very proper courtroom in basic terms justices who might overturn Roe v. Wade. Roe v. Wade became into desperate on a 5-4 vote, so it would take in basic terms one new appointment to overturn it. so some distance SEVEN justices have been appointed via Reagan and the two trees (six are left now after Sandra Day O'Connor retired), and anyone became into promised to be the swing vote needed to overturn Roe v. Wade, besides the incontrovertible fact that it is under no circumstances arise. The Republicans have controlled this difficulty completely for political applications. They saved the difficulty alive an excellent form of those years to wring the utmost political make the main of it, yet now it is exceedingly a lot performed out. the classic partnership between fundamentalist Christians and the Republican social gathering is donning skinny. not one of the Republican applicants this 365 days (different than Mike Huckabee) had to be too heavily linked with the non secular top. Huckabee took benefit of this certainty to locate his area of interest because of the fact the Christian Candidate, yet you may locate how nicely that did for him.

Answer 4

Because there are laws about it's legality.
Also, judges, which are appointed by the president, have made decisions about it's constitutionality, thereby making it a political issue.
I agree with what I think is the premise of your question; that this is an issue that isn't going to be put to rest by passing laws about it. It's going to take persuasion by honest argument and education (not propaganda) about biology, fetal life, and abortion.
I think it has been tied to Christianity for a couple reasons.
1) First, Christians tend to "get" the pro-life argument more than any other group of people. I think this is because devout Christians believe in God and therefore submit their lives to God. In other words, their thinking and decisions are based on principles.
Securalists that don't have a strong belief in God and following god's principles, kind of set themselves up as their own god, so to speak. Therefore, their thinking and decisions are based on what they think is "right". Since they have no guiding principles greater than their own judgement(and human beings are ,by and large, very un-objective creatures), they will almost invariably either:
a) not really think the matter through and just accept what popular culture and/or popular media is telling them OR
b) rationalize their way to a decision that they WANT to be correct or "moral." Since most securalists are have many sexual partners that they don't want to have children with, they have a vested interest in abortion being ok. If it's ok, abortion can get them out of situations that they don't want to be in (9 months of pregnancy, 18 years of child support, etc. etc.) and they don't have to give up recreational sex.

2) Pro-choice people want to paint it as a religious issue so that it seems that christians are trying to force their religion on society.

In actuality no mention of religion, god, nor religious arguments are needed. You only start with the premise that no one should be allowed to end another person's life without just cause.
If someone honestly (and objectively---which is extremely difficult for us humans to do) tries to answer the question "When does human life begin?" , it is pretty much a slam dunk answer.
Examine the DNA evidence, fetal life evidence, and what actually happens in an abortion.
1) There is no question that the human fetus is human, that is genetically speaking. It's DNA is human DNA.
2)There is no question that it is uniquely human. That is, it's DNA is unique. While a two parts of the mother's body such as her brain cells and liver cells share identical DNA, her fetus' DNA is only related the mother (and the father) but different from both. Therefore it is not part of her body.
3)Your DNA is identical to the DNA of the fetus that was once inside your mother. In fact that fetus was you in a much smaller and less developed form.
4) There is no question that it's alive. A fetus left in it's natural state will grow and develop into a "baby". Sperm and eggs will not. They must get together. A sperm or egg could never be considered a unique human beings because they could combine with any number of eggs or sperms, respectively, to make any number of different unique individuals.

If you are able to detach yourself from the emotion and personal interest of the abortion issue, I think it's very obvious that abortion is wrong.

Answer 5

You don't mention the fact that Democrats also use abortion as a political issue. Remember the good old NARAL ad from 2000, "A vote for Nader is a vote for Bush". I wonder who they were supporting in the Presidential election. Both parties use hot button issues like abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, and others because they rally support from their base.

Christianity (or any other religious belief for that matter) is brought in because the issues of life and death, what constitutes human life, and the morality of ending another life all are moral issues. Religion primarily deals with moral issues. It is perfectly logical to use your religious views to answer the question: Should abortion be legal?

Abortion is not only a political issue, but also a moral and ethical issue as well.

EDIT***

Specific Biblical quotes

If a fetus is considered an individual human life (most religions see it this way) there are a multitude of Biblical passages which definitely relate to this. Most notably the following passage: "Thou shalt not kill" (Ex 20:13).

Christ references the Ten Commandments on a number of occasions and gives us the Great Commandment (sometimes called the Golden Rule): "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." (Mt 22:39)

Applying these passages and "rules" to abortion is no more vague than the application of the ninth and fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, as is cited in Roe v. Wade.

Answer 6

It is a poltical issue because it is something people in washington are asked to make policy on and for the supreme court to rule on.

It is tied to Christianity because it is a form of murder and the Bible condemns murder. Also in Exodus 21:22, God spells it out very clearly that if you take the life of an unborn child, you are a murderer and so should your life be taken.

But im guessing if you knew God at all or had the Holy Spirit, you really wouldnt have to ask and question why its wrong, would you?

Answer 7

It takes a lib to come up with such a question. We ( Christian conservatives) have what we call values.

They are a set of guidelines around which we mold our lives. Among them are a respect for the sanctity of life.

To a conservative, it's not a political issue, it's a moral and ethical issue.

Since the left cannot argue issues regarding morality or ethics, they must make issues legal or political. When they are confronted on abortion in such a setting, their first line of defense is to accuse conservatives of making a political issue out of it.

Have I made this clearer for you?

Answer 8

politicians have made it a political issue because it is emotional and can sway people quite firmly one way or the other.

it isn't about morality (which is subjective), its about votes. When a large percentage of your constituency, lets say the majority, shares the belief that abortion is wrong and will vote for you if that is your platform, then that is what you are going to run with, and how you will shape policy in order to get elected and to keep your job.

so, to all of you who ranted on the morality or lack thereof of getting abortions, get stuffed! if it ain't your pregnancy, it ain't your business!

Answer 9

I find this very odd, but I'm going to have to agree with the cons on this one. Abortion is a key political issue. They tie it to Christianity because abortion goes against their, and most other people's, religion.

Answer 10

If 100 million people in this country think it's a political issue, then it's a political issue. Disrespecting their viewpoint is not only arrogant, but it won't help solve the problem.

Answer 11

Abortion is a huge issue because millions of lives are at stake each year. In the U.S. alone there are 1.5 million children aborted every year. How is this not a big issue?
Morals are tied to faith and 80% of the U.S. is Christian.