1. you never conceive the child or 2. you do conceive and abort. Either way, the child was not going to live.
Thoughts?
I'm not saying I don't personally feel there is a difference. I am asking this question in this manner in order to illicit a wide range of answers. Thank you for your civility.
2007-10-24 19:33:25 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How do you know the child wasn't intentionally created? You didn't create him or her, God did. You didn't make the egg, and your boy didn't make the sperm. Nor did either of you put them both together.
Perhaps, and I'm just using an example here, God created a child in you knowing that you did not want to take responsibility for it, specifically so that you would put the baby up for adoption and it would go directly to the couple who had been praying to God for a delivery.
The dead only know one thing. It is better to be alive.
2007-10-24 19:37:45 · answer #1 · answered by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Here's the final question:
At what point in the embryonic development does a fertilized egg become an individual entity (IE a separate person)?
-If it happens at conception, then abortion is murder--no questions.
-If it happens at birth (and until that time the fetus is merely 'part' of the mother) than abortion is acceptable, insofar as the law proscribes.
-If it is some in-between phase, then it is murder any time after that phase, but acceptable insofar as the law proscribes until that point.
So in answer to your question: Whether the parents conceived deliberately or accidentally, the answer to that question depends solely on these three points.
The difference is that in the first case, nobody questions whether you may or may not have 'murdered' another human being (IE your unborn child), while that IS the question in the second scenario.
2007-10-24 19:42:35 · answer #2 · answered by SDW 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, are they intentionally having sex?
If a man and woman are intentionally having sex, the woman might get pregnant. That is just a fact. Apparently many, many people just ignore that.
A child who was never conceived is NOT a child and so can't be killed, but once conceived, it IS a child, and aborting it kills it.
That's why it is such a big deal.
We either value human life, or we don't. If we as a society (or individual) say we do, then we need to protect it, especially for those who can't speak for themselves.
2007-10-24 19:45:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Considering most women do not even know they are pregnant until they are almost 2 months along which means they would not have an abortion until then...consider this...
At 6 weeks - The head begins to take shape, tiny cavities show the future location of the eyes and ears. The digestive tract is in formation but the mouth cannot be opened yet. The tissue connecting the embryo to the uterus turns into an umbilical cord. The backbone begins formation. The cluster of cells that will become the testis or ovaries appear.
At 8 weeks - The face and jaw is formed, but teeth and facial muscles are only just starting. All of the vital organs are in place: heart, lungs, brain, intestines.
You want to kill an innocent child? You can't tell me its just tissue or cells!!!
2007-10-24 19:45:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am not sure I understand your question. Are you asking if there is a difference between not conceiving a child, and aborting a fetus? I suppose statistically there is no difference, but in reality there is an ethical dilemma. Anyway you look at it, you are stopping the potential life of a fetus. If you have no conception, then you have no ethical dilemma. No harm, no foul.
2007-10-24 19:40:53 · answer #5 · answered by Frank B 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The act of sex IS intentionally trying to conceive a human being into life. The PURPOSE of sex is to procreate...just because the result is not wanted doesn't mean it should be cancelled.
Besides, if you never conceive at all by being abstinent or by having protected sex you won't be responsible for MURDERING a piece of the future that could change it for better ....
Abortion is murder and is rather selfish.
Who are we to judge that a life isn't worth saving? Or worth developing into something special later on in life?
Who are we to say my son or my daughter is garbage???
2007-10-24 19:42:50 · answer #6 · answered by TrueBlue 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
In 1) there is no child.
In 2) there is a child, who dies.
Lastly, just because a human doesn't intend something, doesn't mean our creator didn't.
Easiest way not to conceive is not to jump in the sack. Then we don't have to argue over whether life started or got snuffed.
2007-10-24 19:43:46 · answer #7 · answered by David F 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
It's not just the issue of abortion but the well known long-lasting consequences that affect the person who had the abortion.
2007-10-24 19:38:34 · answer #8 · answered by cheir 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Part of the purpose of sex is to make babies...
So, if you conceive a child you did it intentionally...
There is no such thing as conceiving a child accidentally....
2007-10-24 19:38:54 · answer #9 · answered by Adyghe Ha'Yapheh-Phiyah 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Its a big deal to God.
2007-10-24 19:40:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋