How can people believe in animal rights AND abortion?

Answer 1

My dear, casey, I could not have asked a better question.
The far left in the USA are a funny bunch to say the least. A woman can kill her baby, but if you or I kick a dog we go to jail. That would even be a funny joke if it weren't true.

Answer 2

It might be a mistake to think that Pro Choice equates to belief in abortion. I know many people who agree with protecting personal freedoms and a woman's right to choose, but I've never met anyone who believes in abortion as a first good option. Maybe your question could have been worded differently?

So, I think your question comes down to weighing protections. I can see it a simple matter of believing in the protection of all things. Unfortunately, in the sense that all things deserve unnatural protection, we've proved this to be impossible. All things cannot be protected equally where humans have decided that we must control the balance of extremes and have tried to take the laws of nature into our own hands.

If we protect our current economy, we continue to kill the planet.

If we protect our need for intelligence, we lose our privacy.

If we protect every unborn child, we lose our personal freedom.

This list could go on forever.

Roger Hunt of S. Dakota tried to force the anti-abortion legislation in his majority Pro Life state. It failed. Most Catholics I know use birth control. It is obvious that we decide such issues for ourselves. Where animals, forests, oceans and air cannot speak for themselves, I am not comfortable drawing a line on whether you are allowed to have an abortion or not. You can decide that for yourself. Where the gang rapists forced themselves upon a woman in the back of a dark alley and left her for dead, would we now choose to force her to carry a bastard child of a diseased cocaine freak against her will, despite her physical, mental and emotional suffering? If so, are we any better than the rapist, or if we condone the abortion, we simply condone the murdering of an innocent unborn child? It's simply not my place to make such judgments or decisions on behalf of others.

While you may not care to understand or agree with a Pro Choice mentality, it seems at least explicable. I'm not sure if the Ted Haggards of the world who push an anti-abortion...Pro Life only political agenda, can effectively argue their position beyond a religious or idealistic prespective.

Your other question/statement regarding Christian persecution...where did it go??? In conjunction with this and other questions, you demonstrate predispositions of moral self-righteousness.

Answer 3

Because its humane?

I think everyone should care about animal rights. Cruelty to animals should never be tolerated.

Abortion in most cases is done for a humane reason and it is done BEFORE the fetus develops a central nervous system. Why would you want to have any child grow up unwanted? Sometimes abortions are done because the mother has been raped, sometimes abortions are done because the life of the mother is in danger.

Answer 4

I can't believe what i am reading with some of these answers. You are making fun of a death of a human life. You people have something mentally wrong with you if you are condoning the death of children and want to protect animals. Acording to the Catechism of the Catholic Church

2272 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. "A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae," "by the very commission of the offense," and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law. The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society

Matthew 4:8-12
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Then the devil took him up to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their magnificence,
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and he said to him, "All these I shall give to you, if you will prostrate yourself and worship me." 5
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At this, Jesus said to him, "Get away, Satan! It is written: 'The Lord, your God, shall you worship and him alone shall you serve.'"
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Then the devil left him and, behold, angels came and ministered to him.

Satan is telling Jesus he rules all the great kingdoms of the world. Jesus does not dissagree with satan. That is why people are so easy to distroy children satan has enters there hearts.

Answer 5

I believe that only pregnant women should be allowed to have abortions. As far as animal rights to an abortion I will have to think about it.

Certainly a dog has far more self awareness than a fetus does and isn't living as a parasite.

Answer 6

The way that some see it is that a baby in the womb isn't a person until they are born. Therefore, they do not have the same rights to life as other people and animals. It's the same reason that some people are pro-choice but anti-death penalty and euthanasia.

Answer 7

Hmm, yeah you got me.
I guess these people view full grown animals as being more important than unborn fetuses. I can understand the logic there. These animals at least have experienced life on earth.. Personally I don't know if I agree. I much prefer scientists experiment on rats than on human embryos.

Answer 8

Money. Billions of dollars are at stake in the animal rights industry and the abortion industry. Where money is concerned, someone will always be willing to do the unthinkable, be it pack living animals in cages or stupidly free animals to die in the wilds or commit infantcide for a few bucks. Money is the ultimate religion of many and the power over it, of self-gratification. Animal rights activists leaders recieve a lot of money to stir the pot. All it takes is anger at how animals are abused (most of that being lies fed to the simple-minded, like the one about the polar bear and her cub? She was on the ice to protect the cub from being eaten by a male bear, which are cannibals). In doing so, they drive normal people from protesting against battery-raised poultry, animal expermentation, protecting rare or endangered species, stopping the feeding of grains to livestock (grain is too rich and is toxic to most animals, just as you trying live off of candy), and so much more. Money means all to them, not saving anything. Money and power.

As a traditional Native American, my mother, aunts, grandmothers, taught animal rights and were shocked that whites are so anti-children's rights to do something like an abortion. As the old women teach the kids, yes, we (Native America) had abortionists, but we (meaning the women) ran them down and burned them for it.

Abortion is child abuse. Why else would abortionists hate and fight against ultrasound pix? Ultimately, you'll find abortion is race control for non-whites and what Hitler referred to as mongrel whites. As it stands, abortionists are finding their ranks depleted by abortion. Fewer children are reared by abortionists means fewer abortionists. It is the root of the Darwin Awards, the gene pool being self-cleansing.

Answer 9

What about the rights of Animals to have Abortions?

Answer 10

Because an embryo that's only like 4 weeks old is not really a living human being. You need to leave people alone who have trouble making a decision. You're not going to change people's mind, you're just going to piss them off. If you don't believe in abortion, then don't get one. It's a personal choice.

Answer 11

Since most people who support animal rights also eat animals, this question is not as clever as the pro-lifers here wish to pretend.Gee, how can people believe in human rights and abortion? Most do, you know.

Here's how: not all life springs up in hospitable places. not all life is wanted. if you make it out of the womb, you get the protections afforded all humans. until you make it out of the womb, your destiny is tied to your mother. if she can't raise you, out you go.

early abortions are far more humane than adoption. most early abortions are done by god, anyway, as most pregnancies end in miscarriages.

i really don't get the hysteria and passion over the fetus. with all the children suffering and unwanted in this country today, it seems those who really 'care' instead of those who want to feel self-righteous over their crusade for a few cells, wouldn't have time to think about abortion, they'd be so busy helping those who are here and suffering.

and, when paying attention to the huge huge numbers of unwanted kids who are here and suffering, they might get over their sickening love affair with the fetus.