Can you really bat both ways on this? Slavery was once the law of the land, state-sanctioned racisim was once the law of the land, and now wholesale genocide is the law of the land.
Do you really believe that because the "law" make something legal/illegal, this is the moral compass in which to make a logical decision? Or is mob-mentality the only solution?
Your thoughts, please.
And please don't go there with the coat-hangers, etc. Roughly 50 million American(s), or 1 in six people in society simply do not exist since 1973, and the number of deaths in the previous 100 years due to botched abortions(another "choice") don't even come close to those numbers.
2007-06-19 09:55:22 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, you truly cannot be both.
I once considered myself Christian and a pro-choice feminist. My justification for this view was that I felt abortion gave women equal footing with men. I felt that unwanted pregnancy held women back. While men could make babies and go about their lives, women were forever struggling due to the limitations of day care, sick babies, doctor visits, caring and providing for children. I saw men advancing in the workplace because they were not expected to tend to their kids as women were.
I've come completely around to the other side on this. I am 100% pro-life. Every person has the right to life. A person's poor choices should not cause the death of an innocent bystander...and that's what a baby is. Innocent yet sentenced to death because it's life is inconvenient.
Making an immoral act legal in no way makes that act moral. It just makes it legal. In fact, in some ways it adds to the immorality of it...because people are duped into feeling good about abortion when it is truly hideous and against the very nature of motherhood. Women do not consider the emotional consequences of such a selfish act because...it's legal and must be okay.
Our instinct to protect our young is shoved aside. The very person who should offer the safest place for her child is now the murderer. The child, a human being with it's own unique DNA at conception, is denied it's right to choose. It cannot choose life...and it certainly would.
Also, on another note...the whole "every child a wanted child" is a play on words and a mind game. In reality child abuse has gone UP since the inception of Roe v. Wade. There are still children in orphanages and foster care...even after 40 years of legalized abortion. After all this time, there should be no "unwanted" children since anyone and everyone is entitled to an abortion.
Pro-choice sells society a bill of goods all wrapped up nice and neat...but in reality it is genocide and these women arrogantly line up to practice their "right" to murder their child.
2007-06-19 10:14:17 · answer #1 · answered by Misty 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Abortion is a terrible injustice to an innocent baby. They justify it and say, "it's not a baby yet," but they feel and suck their little thumbs early in the womb. And what about the fact that the mother has stolen that childs chance to become a person and stolen their chance to have a life? And the way they kill the babies are inhuman, torturous, barbaric, I can't even think about it, it's so horrific. We are kinder to our pets when we uthenize them then we are to these babies the way they are killed. And why are most of them aborted? Because being pregant or having a baby didn't fit in with the mother's agenda. (I am not talking about abortions that had to be done because of medical emergencies)
2007-06-19 10:03:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Getting back to the old question "What would Jesus do" is the most rational choice. I really don't think Jesus would approve of abortion. A nation that passes laws like killing innocent babies is bound to feel God's wrath.
2007-06-19 10:03:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I am pro-choice, although I'm not really a Christian. Sure, there have been all those people who weren't born, but is that really a bad thing? Think about if there were that many more people now who would have had nobody to care for them or been born into broken homes. I'm not saying abortion is necessarily a great thing, but it just seems like the lesser of two evils to me.
2007-06-19 10:00:51 · answer #4 · answered by sammy22 1 · 3⤊ 3⤋
this is how i stand morally:
in christian faith god gave all men free will. some of us might decide to have abortions. i hope that if i get a girl pregnant that she does not have one but i do support the right to free will.
the economics of abortion:
if your statistics are true (they seem a bit high) abortion is a good thing with out abortion there would be a worker surplus, higher crime rates, more single mothers and a higher poverty rates
i probably wont be picked best answer but i don't care
2007-06-19 10:13:12 · answer #5 · answered by specal k 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
An early church teaching was, "Thou shalt do no murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not corrupt boys, thou shalt not commit fornication, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not deal in magic, thou shalt do no sorcery, thou shalt not murder a child by abortion nor kill them when born, thou shalt not covet thy neighbors goods" Didache 2:2
What gets me is what people use the phrase "a woman's right to chose" but don't finish the phrase. It should be
"A woman's right to chose to murder her baby"
Should women have such rights?
2007-06-19 11:06:48 · answer #6 · answered by Steve Amato 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dude... It was the Bible which was cited by those who wanted to keep the slaves.
No woman ever got an abortion because she didn't want to, and it is not up to you to pass religious judgement on anyone (that's also in the Bible), or restrict others based on your religious beliefs (that's in the Constitution). It's difficult to swallow, but that's the price of living in a free society, tolerant of other points of view.
2007-06-19 10:06:03 · answer #7 · answered by 006 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
NO! Alcohol and tobacco are legal here in the uk while cannabis is illegal - but everyone thinks weed is wrong and harmful and immorral because it is illegal. And it has never killed anyone!
Everyone is entitled to ther VIEW on abortion and every woman is entitled to do with her body as she wishes
2007-06-19 10:02:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
If someone really can't afford or care for a baby, it should be put up for adoption. Peace!
2007-06-19 10:11:13 · answer #9 · answered by M H 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
im against abortion becoz its killing the baby and in the 10 commandments it says thou shalt not commit murder
2007-06-19 10:06:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋