Pro-lifers, answer me this...?
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I am not a pro-lifer but the way I see it - which could be wrong - without repeating what others said is that you cannot kill a soul.I believe in reincarnation. OK....once born : different question and a dilemna.\nBut on the whole : is an unwanted child better ? I don't think so at all. \nWhat if people were forced to adopt a child they did not want ? Life for everyone would be very miserable.\nAnd to those out there : sometimes girls need to hide the fact from the family so putting up for adoption is out of question. The family would resent it a lot and force the girl to have and keep the child.\nChildren should be wanted and loved. If that is not the case, better have an abortion rather than raise an unfit, miserable human being.
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Go, mom.\n\nOkay, I will not dip too deep into this because this subject is, well, one I am passionate about.\n\nMurder is murder. I don't care if the government say that you can kill a baby, that you have the right; you don't. Women have a right to THEIR bodies, yes, but after a baby is concieved, it is a seperate entity, a seperate person;human being. It is connect to, BUT no longer HER body.  Okay, What happens when you kill an adult, or, you know, let's say six of them? You will most likely get the death penalty. Why? Because you have no right, or 'decision' to make about someone else's body or life. Oh, and you want to know how law-proven guilty criminals that get death row die?...a lot more peacefully and a lot less gruesome and more human than an innocent baby that is aborted dies.\n\nI'm not an activist, but I'm sick of it. I'm sick of people supporting murder. People that cannot live up to their responsibilities of having sex, should NOT have it. I hear you on the birth control method. My mother had always told me about a roommate she used to have in college. She had several abortions, and used it as birth control. Well God (or nature, whatever you believe, or don't believe) Stepped in, and when she settled down from the college years, and got married, she was not able to have children anymore. It is wrong. If you cannot live up to your responsibilities, or not be safe and responsible, or are promiscuous it's not the baby's fault. Why should the baby have to die for your sins, your mistakes. It's believed that everyone is born with sin, but not even giving them a chance to have a life of their own is selfish. You are taking a life, and that is not right, or your place to decide.\n\nI have been through the issue with a rape. If I hadn't of had a miscarriage, I would have given the poor thing up for adoption, at least. And I was 15 at this time, a very scared, abused girl, but...killing it never once crossed my mind; I do not condone that at ALL.... and that experience messed me up very badly, to this day.  That is a terrible spot to be in, you didn't ask for it, it's not your fault, but it's not the baby's either. I mean, I won't lie, I felt terrible for what had happened (worthlessness, guilt, filth, self-pity, all the emotional baggage that came with it) but I would have felt so much more if I would have taken that life away, for nothing more than my selfishness.\n\nThere are plenty of barren, sterile couples, or just loving couples that would LOVE to have a baby, but cannot conieve that would take unwanted babies'. If it is women's right to kill their children, then why do people go to jail for it after they are outside of their womb? Hmm, it's the SAME THING. If the government says that is is their RIGHT to murder that is fu cked. What about that child's RIGHT to live, to have a life, even if it is sent to a different family. People are irresponsible and selfish. fu ck them.\n\nOh, and a smaller dip into the  the whole "they they're not babies until.. blah, blah." ,It still is a human being, no matter how small. It takes shape after a while, fingers, toes, fingernails form early on....etc. They develop faster than lawmakers gave credit... If a person other than the mother assaults a mother, and the baby dies, it is murder, if the mother decides to kill it, it's her right?\n\nThat's not right.\n\nEither be responsible, live up to your responsibilities, give it up, or just be humane.\n\n\nOOOH, \n\nAnd I can't go on anymore. I tried to sum it up for you. I can't go futher, or I will rewrite it in more detail and right a freaking book, right here and now...
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I don't know that is a hard one. I'm pro-life and but I'm for the death penalty (and there isn't anything wrong with that, Babies don't murder, people on death row do) I think I would, just to get rid of abortion. I think it might be worth it.
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you know i can't really answer your question. you put a new spin on abortion for me. Thanx.
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Personally, I'm pro-choice and pro-capital punishment.\n\nAddendum to original response:\n\nTELL YA WHAT DRACULA... You swear on the lives of every family member you have (and all people like minded as you), TO GOD, that you will NO LONGER pass judgement or preach your religous hipocricy. And that you will, in turn, allow others to run their own lives and make their own choices from that moment on. Break THAT VOW and you agree to God striking down EVERY ONE YOU HAVE SWORN ON...\n\nIf you agree to those terms, then, my closed minded LITTLE "friend", I will deliver the 50% you asked for, directly into the hands of Jesus himself... \n\nThe great part to this addendum ? I am quite aware, that you are completely incapable of keeping your nose out of others lives, and of passing judgements, thus the deal is void, before the ink dries. For it is in your nature to think you have some power greater than human, to control others, like pawns on a chess board... And, oh, what a wonderful thing it is, for ther rest of us to know, that you do not have that power... \n\nAffectionately,  \nA sexy as hell pagen, pro-choice, card carrying nud ist.  :)\n\nKisses !
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Very thought provoking question! I am suprised that the responses you have received so far have been either negative or incomplete. It does pose a serious problem for conservative minded people. If the creation of a "Frankenstein" embryo by the hands of man is a religious abomination as you postulate, then supporting its existance is an equal abomination. But then comes the right to life issue. So far the responses seem to have been "well, too late to do anything about it". I think those responses are cop outs.\n\nI think that, should God make available to man the technology to perform such acts, then God must want us to be capable of doing it, otherwise he would prevent it.  Interestingly, it calls into question fundamental religious beliefs of whether or not this might be a "test" by God...\n\nI really dont have an off the cuff answer. This has provoked a lot of questions in my mind, and I have to sit back and think about it carefully for awhile. Thanks for the great question.
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NO! I argee with you on everything but the Pro-life. What if you get raped, can't take care of a baby and can't get a abortion? That would all be b/c of you. Change that and I'll vote yes.
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Pro-abortionists will say that the unborn baby is a product of conception.  This allows them to not have to deal with the baby issue.  They want to say that pro-lifers are anti-choice....that they are against a woman having the right to choose what happens to their body.  I think the pro-murder or anti-life (I will call them that as they like to use the anti-choice moniker) advocates don't understand that pro-lifers are trying to speak up for the choice of one who cannot be heard...the baby!  The argument that I like to use, from a Biblical sense is that God says He knew us before we were born and that He knit us together in our mother's womb.  This indicates that He began life before our actual birth.  The argument that the baby is just a product of conception...it is true.  A baby is a product of conception, the only one...you conceive a baby!  It is not the baby's fault that you made a mistake, that you were irresponsible or that some sick bas...d went and did something to a woman that he should be strung up by his ba..s for!  That baby is innocent!  The woman who aborts a baby is also, often, wracked with guilt in their later years over what they did.  Why inflict an additional pain on some poor girl/woman who has been raped, etc.?  It is illegal to break an eagle's egg because it is living and the bald eagle is endangered, but it is legal to kill a human infant in the same state...what kind of sick logic is that?
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i agree. how can we be shocked and appauled at the lack of moral fortitude of society at large, when "we" as a society insist upon the right to choose.\n\ni am pro choice. but the reality of which Mother Teresa speaks is true, may she rest in peace.
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One of the worlds' great mysteries.\n\nAs one of the people above me said....They support someones right...even if it's a mistake.   Well if it's a mistake...Why the hell do you support it?!  But yet, smoking is a mistake, and you do everything in your power to stop smokers.  Damned Hypocrites!\n\nHere's a question...if an unborn baby is a female... aren't you taking away her right to choose?\n\nHey, death penalty opponents...think of the death penalty as a 'late term abortion' ....\n\nI don't get it...kill the ones who have not sinned, and save all the sinners.  Nice.....
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Hey good question.\nI myself am a Wisconsinite.\nI'd vote anti-death penalty, but pro-choice.\nNow listen before you call me a baby killing hipocrite.\n\nI don't support abortion, or the promiscuisous sexuality that causes unwanted children. I suggest counciling and deep consideration before having an abortion because it is indeed a child. However, in the end it is a woman's right to choose.
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Does anything really justify abortion?\n\nTo Pro-Choicers : Of course it does. A woman's body, a woman's choice.\n\nIn my opinion, no. It's a baby whether it was conceived 'in love,' by accident, or by rape. Them's the breaks. Life isn't fair, and it's terrible that the woman was raped, but the child shouldn't be punished for it.\n\nIt you actually meant rap...no.
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You raise a perfectly valid point, and one with which I happen to agree. That's why I tend to avoid answering abortion questions. When I do weigh in, however, it is always on the side of choice, simply because the alternative contradicts my fundamental philosophy regarding the rights of the individual in society. It makes not one iota of difference what I personally think of abortion, unless I am directly involved in some way (i.e., I'm the potential father). \n\nMore to the point, however, I don't believe this issue is ANYONE else's business but those parties directly involved. In other words, it NEVER should have become a political or moral issue in the first place. It is an entirely personal and (very) private issue. So, when male politicians and religious leaders jump in with both feet, that's when I get really angry. It could not be any LESS their business, and no amount of sanctimonious moralizing is ever going to change that fact.\n\nOne final point. I think every abortion is a tragedy, but not for the reasons the pro-life zealots say it is. The tragedy is that a young woman is going through personal hell and is making a choice that may well haunt her for the rest of her life. She may be having the abortion for any number of reasons (rape, incest, health dangers, personal choice, whatever) and she will doubtless suffer for whatever decision she makes. That sad fate is plenty bad enough without having perfect bloody strangers blundering in to voice their disapproval on top of all else. \n\nThe bottom line is that this is rightly her decision to make in the end. Sure, if there is a father present who actually wants this child, he should have a say in the outcome. And doctors clearly have some role to play here, too. But how did such a deeply painful and personal choice ever become fodder for hypocritical politicians and pious religious leaders (whose primary responsibility is to preach tolerance, surely)? It is madness, pure madness...
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You give a good argument for pro choice, and to me, it's a refreshing one.  I am in agreement with a woman's right to choose but become less committed when the babe becomes a viable age.  I have worked in neo-natal units and clearly see that they are more than a "fetus" at 24 weeks (or less) of gestation. I would like to trust the woman to make a decision that is best for her own well-being, but with consideration of the unborn potential person she has created.  Unfortunately, not all women are so unselfish and generous, and even go so far as to use abortion as a frequent form of birth control, which disgusts me.  I have also had the experience of these same "mothers" not being fit to take care of themselves, let alone a baby, and one with the multiple health concerns that many premature babies must deal with throughout their lives.  This too, consumes the same, or more, of the natural resources you speak of and is also commonly a drain on society's welfare system.  \n\nSo, the debate continues.  Yours is a fresh perspective.  Thank you.
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I'm pro-choice and was raised Roman Catholic.  There is diversity in the pro-choice group, so I assume there is diversity in the pro-life group as well.
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It blows my mind how people can be anti-capital punishment and pro-abortion.\n\nEither respect all life, or respect all innocent life, but not the liberal "don't kill convicted murders, but kill all the babies you want".\n\nBTW - to the person below... the Bible does NOT say "Thou Shall Not Kill"... it says "Thou Shall Not Committ Murder."  There is a difference.
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They're not pro-choice.  They're pro-abortion.  Ask them if they support a man's right to choose and see what kind of faces they make.