Why do the Christian extremist feel they need to stop all abortions? Shouldn’t they just worried about there own children and them self’s? I once knew a girl who was raped and got pregnant and decided not to have the baby. How do you tell her she was wrong? I mean I don't agree with abortion as a form of birth control but I could never expect for everyone to think the way I do. And I believe only the person in there own particular situation can understand how they feel.
2007-10-14 08:26:19 · 34 answers · asked by tony cola 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I was asking four your thought not scripture from some unproven book.
2007-10-14 08:34:22 · update #1
She was married and could not handle the thought of, A. bearing this child and raising it. B. giving a piece of her self away, adoption.
2007-10-14 08:52:13 · update #2
jess-- your the kind of person Im talking about too stupid to understand or empathize with the conflicts she may have within just because you choose to only look at life through tinted glass you are ready to crucify someone for looking through a different window. Well if ignorance is bliss you must be a very happy person.
2007-10-14 09:37:27 · update #3
honey you too....
2007-10-14 09:42:24 · update #4
jess I apologize I was a bit harsh.
2007-10-16 09:42:26 · update #5
The Bible does NOT say that abortion is a sin. Since most Christians have never actually READ the ENTIRE Bible, they have NO idea what it REALLY says, except for a few carefully selected warm & fuzzy verses that preachers aren't ashamed to share.
According to the Bible, God COMMANDED his followers to kill and rip open pregnant women (Numbers 31:17, Ezekiel 9:6, Hosea 13:16), and he killed millions of pregnant women himself (Flood & Plagues). There are even Biblical INSTRUCTIONS on how PRIESTS should abort an unwanted pregnancy (Numbers 5:12-31).
According to the Bible, man became a living soul when the BREATH of life was BREATHED into his nostrils (Genesis 2:7). Fetuses do NOT breathe through their nostrils until after BIRTH (which just happens to be when they receive a constitutional right to life in the USA). In Biblical times, male babies were NOT counted as persons until they were a MONTH old, and female babies were not counted AT ALL (Numbers 3:15). The Bible also says that some would be better off if they had NEVER been born (Ecclesiastes 6:3, Matthew 26:24).
A woman can choose whether or not to believe the Bible when making her own personal decision, but just imagine what horrors we would endure if it wasn't ILLEGAL to make laws respecting an establishment of religion!
2007-10-14 09:42:44 · answer #1 · answered by gelfling 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
It is my belief that regardless of my views on the abortion issue, we can neither ban it or open it wide up. Truthfully all we can do is hope to set limits.
If we take away a womans right to abort, then this will send them back to the butchers in the back alleys doing abortion.
If we say that abortion is ok up until the point of labor, then it is conceiveable that women who have either lack of good judgement, etc...etc... could and would abort at 8 or 9 months.
I believe the only answer is compromise in a world as such that we are living in today. We must also be willing to provide complete and accurate information to our youth, not only on abortion, but birth control, std's, teen pregnancy and abstinence as a choice...
just my humble pagan thoughts....
blessings
)o( trinity
2007-10-14 08:38:48 · answer #2 · answered by trinity 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
That is a moral dilemma between her and God.
It's not the governments place.
The day that see these 'good Christians' get a 'I Want Your Baby' on eBay I will give them my thumbs up. Because as much lip service as I get from these extremist I do not see them stepping up and adopting these kids.
If you don't want scared alone and desperate women getting abortions you will need more than fire and brimstone to convince them to bring a human being into a world that calls them bastards and such. The world is not kind to the poor & forgotten.
To the post that uses the 'what if' well what if the queen of England had bal ls then she'd be the king. lame
2007-10-14 08:51:32 · answer #3 · answered by theladygeorge 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is nothing EXTREMIST about being against Abortion. And it's not just Christians that are against it, people from other groups, even Athiests are against it. So I don't understand why your question is directed toward Christians only. I'm Muslim, and I despise even the word abortion. When I got pregnant, I wasn't ready. But I don't need to kill my own baby just because I wasn't ready. I should have controlled MYSELF. And secondly, people who come here describing human life as "just a dna," don't forget DNA is just a short word for life. Do you feel that YOU are just a DNA? No right? You demand respect for your own feelings, emotions, the air you breathe. Why is it that when it comes to another beings existance, it is just DNA to you. I don't care what anybody's belief system consists of, abortion is a crime and should not be happening. Morally, it is wrong no matter what. I really don't know how the issue of a raped girl who gets pregnant should be resolved, but if she doesn't want her baby then she should know that there are so many people out there who can't have their own and would love to adopt. As for the other type of women who just can't keep their legs closed, they have absolutely no excuse for an abortion. They have no right sleeping around and them murdering babies. They're killers whether they admit it or not and should be punished.
People go to jail everyday when they kill a walking person, but while it's in the womb it's JUST DNA. How sad...
2007-10-14 09:05:02 · answer #4 · answered by Princess 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Being raped and finding oneself pregnat is a tough question to answer. First--did that person seek help at a DR office, hospital etc? because there is a treatment to keep a rape victim from becoming pregnant. If the person didn't seek attention and became pregnant out of inatention to the situation, then having an Steps should have been taken immediatly so that an abortion would not have been needed.
Although the person commits this ill deed to a child God can forgive if the person is unaware of the Laws God put before us and avoids this type of thing. Only God can answer for sure what the truth was in that situation.
The seed planted , begins to grow, is alive in order to grow. Hence life begions at the moment of conception with the first division of the cells. If there was no life in the seed there would be no growth.
2007-10-14 08:39:43 · answer #5 · answered by Moondog2277 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
I'm not an extremist Christian.
by any means.
I'm Wiccan
but I'm extremely conflicted on this issue...
I inherently don't feel right telling others what to do/believe/whate ideals to uphold.
But it's also not the baby's fault someone was raped, or that two people had sex, got pregnant and weren't ready for it, or whatever the case may be.
and i have to say that the fact that you know it WILL be a baby, should you not interfere, *makes* it a human life, in my opinion.
I know this presents a problem too but I'm all for putting the baby up for adoption if you absolutely can't stand the idea of keeping it.
after literally years of struggling over it, I'm openly pro-life. But I'd like to think I'm as unhypocritical as I can be. I'm also anti-war, very open to the idea of adopting children, I'm considering becoming vegetarian again, etc.
I just don't think the fact that you created a life gives you the right to destroy it. You go to jail for taking the life of a newborn baby, for neglecting a child of any age, etc. --- and willfully stopping the growth of a life is no less wrong.
not to mention, if a husband murders his pregnant wife, he gets TWO counts of murder.
I know I can't understand how she would feel, how anyone but myself would feel if they felt they had to consider an abortion. As I'm not inside their head. But it is unforgivably worse than mere selfishness to end another life simply because of how you feel on the matter.
Blessed be.
*edit*- so she killed it instead?
that's absolutely disgusting. on more than one level.
2nd *edit* stupid? darling don't insult MY intelligence when you're asking for opinions only to pick and choose which ones are acceptable for you to receive.
I NEVER said I couldn't empathize. I NEVER said it wouldn't be one hell of a challenge no matter what she (or anyone) chose. But something being a hard choice does not take away it's significance or whether or not it's wrong.
2007-10-14 08:51:44 · answer #6 · answered by jess 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
1,500,000 babies are aborted in the US every year. That is more then the number of soldiers that we lost in all our wars combined. Imagine all those wars happening each year? 4,000 babies are aborted every day. That is a 9/11 happening every day, or all the soldiers we have lost in Iraq till today all dying every day. I could overlook a couple abortions to save the life of the mother, but 1,500,00 per year is genocide.
My friend was raped and she got pregnant and did not decide to have an abortion, she decided she would have that baby and turn that baby into a blessing. She has no right, just because she was raped, to kill the baby.
I could overlook a couple dozen. But not 4,000 a day.
2007-10-14 11:27:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Many Christians believe that abortion is wrong, because of their belief that the act of abortion is murdering an unborn baby. While people argue the point of conception and the viability of a fetus, there is no doubt that the Bible does condemn the taking of another person’s life. Thus, the question of whether or not abortion is wrong depends on whether or not you believe aborting a fetus is murder.
But alas society determines morality and laws. Different cultures have determined what they call morality or standards of right conduct. Christians have a right to affect laws like anyone else.
2007-10-14 08:45:44 · answer #8 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
How is it compassionate to force a rape victim to have her rapist's baby? Would Jesus want that woman to suffer like that? To be reminded of the crime against her each time she looked at that child? And how is that beneficial for the child?
I once knew a girl who was taught in church that she would go to Hell if she lost her virginity before marriage. She was raped. She completely believed that she would go to Hell because of the rape. How is a religion that teaches this good? How can this possibly be helpful? Where is the compassion here?
Before you ask if a woman should have the right to have an abortion, as yourself if you believe a rapist should have the right to perpetrate his DNA through rape. Just as a woman has the right to choose her partners, she has the right to choose the father of her offspring. She should have the right to terminate her pregnancy in situations such as rape or incest where her right to choose her partner is violated. Viewed from this angle, it would seem barbaric that abortion could ever be outlawed.
2007-10-14 08:41:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
I am against abortion for birth control. But I can understand that the raped woman decide to not keep the baby. It is her own decision.
Peace.
2007-10-14 08:41:18 · answer #10 · answered by Eve 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋