I am not asking if you are pro-choice or pro-life, I want to know if your religious beliefs are the main reason you view it the way that you do?
2007-12-11 04:13:26 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am not asking "could you" make another argument? I am asking if it is your main arguement?
2007-12-11 04:19:42 · update #1
I ask because everytime I see a questio "what's your view of abortion?" there are a lot of answers that cite god and his will and the like.
2007-12-11 04:32:43 · update #2
I totally can I am a catholic and still think that every women has a choice....
2007-12-11 04:17:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 4⤋
I don't have a religion, I do have an opinion on abortion. I am pro-choice. My heart goes out to any woman who has to make such a choice, but for that choice to be illegal would only bring more suffering and pain into the world because anyone that desperate will get an abortion in spite of risk to health, safety, or threat of punishment.
2007-12-11 07:12:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The abortion question could be settled on logic alone, without any mention of God. How logical is it for a child to be deemed valuable simply because he is in the womb of a woman who doesn't want him to die?
Yet the same child, in the womb of a woman whose desire is to see the child die, can deem his life of no value?
This is arbitrary and illogical. Either a child's life in the womb is valuable or it is not. It is illogical that some babies in utero are worth more than others. This mentality smacks of Orwell's "some are more equal than others" and is exactly why slavery was allowed for so long.
People whether born or unborn are either equal or they are not.
There: an argument against abortion with no mention of God.
2007-12-11 05:30:39 · answer #3 · answered by Bride of Yeshua 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To me, religion wouldn't play a part in abortion. When it comes to getting pregnant with your Father's baby (god that was hard to type) I don't think the girl should think twice about having an abortion. First, because the baby might be born with multiple birth defects. Second, because it would be a reminder of a traumatic event that will forever haunt your life. Third, because I wouldn't want to give birth to my own brother. So, there it is. My long that could've been short answer. No my 'religion' (if I had one) wouldn't play a part on my view on abortion. But I don't think it's right when a woman sleeps with multiple guys, and has abortions every month. THAT, I think is cruel.
2007-12-11 04:24:10 · answer #4 · answered by ღ♥Jess♥ღ 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I can,,Not sure if this will make sense but really I think is a question of morality, rather than that of religion. My morals, religious based or not, will dictaminate how I feel about it. I think when people throw religion in it complicates the issue. After all there's many religions and interpretations of it. However, I alone dictaminate my own level of what I feel is moral or not. Therefore I'm the only one I have to answer too in regards to this and many other issues. Hope this made sense,, :o)
2007-12-11 05:23:11 · answer #5 · answered by KingDavid 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, my religious beliefs are actually opposite from my view on abortion. I am Muslim, and abortion is forbidden, yet i am pro-choice...
The way i see it, MY being pro-choice doesn't mean I am pro-death, can't speak for anyone else. It just means pro "woman's' right to choose". I have my beliefs, other people will have theirs. Who am i to say someone shouldn't be able to make their own choice because of MY beliefs...?
I will always support a woman's right to make her OWN decision about such matters, and my religion does not get in the way of that.
2007-12-11 04:19:21 · answer #6 · answered by Katrina 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Why should a woman be able to kill her child out of convenience? By this logic it would be acceptable to kill her out of convenience, wouldn't it be? What if she couldn't speak for herself? Would that make it the right of someone else to do so? No.
By faith and out of the love that Jesus commanded, I don't support abortion in general. Unlike many, I don't believe that we are random mutations or animals. I have a much higher respect for human life. I wish to perpetrate no harm to my fellow man (a hundred days or a hundred years old).
Under certain extreme circumstances there may come reasons to justify abortion. But, convenience is for certain not one of them.
2007-12-11 04:36:50 · answer #7 · answered by F'sho 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I fought the Dr's against an abortion even when I was not practising a faith. I had a rash that they told me would make my baby be born very handicapped. To me, that was MY child growing inside of me and would be murder - and would feel like it would destroy my soul to have an innocent life ripped out of me. I kept my baby and he is now 22 years old, my son to love :-)
2007-12-11 05:08:43 · answer #8 · answered by Dana C 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My faith in God is my guiding compass, so no, I cannot truly separate the two issues.
I most certainly believe in a woman's power of choice, but that power should be exercised well in advance of any pregnancy.
Once a child is concieved, that child has the human right to live.
2007-12-11 04:25:53 · answer #9 · answered by Barry F 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I was pro-life even before I became a CHristian, so yeah, my religion isn't the reason for being pro-life. I don't see how anyone who has held a baby can be pro-abortion.
2007-12-11 04:18:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
My main argument has absolutely nothing to do with god or soul, it has to do with individual rights. I was pro-choice even when I believed in a soul.
2007-12-11 04:22:41 · answer #11 · answered by Eiliat 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋