why a murder crime but no to the abortion?
537354
Because humanity has become so warped, that killing unborn children has become legal, and even to a large extent socially acceptable.\n\nCan't think why everybody is so upset about some guys exercising their religuous freedom by flying into a couple of buildings....
549587
Yes I would say it is murder. There are people willing to adopt so why kill when you can give others the gift of life. Youth and immaturity can sometimes give us justifications instead of intellectually sound reasoning. Most will agree, unless you were raped or forcibly made pregnant, the life given to you is divine and has a purpose aside from your own. Joseph was probably ill at ease that his supposed virgin wife was made pregnant buy another father before they were even married. I’m so glad he wasn’t about abortion.
393367
AMEN!!!! Abortion is killing. Most people aren't aware that the little heart the female is carrying starts beating 23 days after conception. Yes 23 DAYS!!! It is murder. Adoption should be mandatory and be made law for those mothers who feel they can't care for the child they conceived. It is far more responsible to give the child a chance of life then to kill it because they couldn't keep their zippers done up.
314177
Well, our reasoning is based on the idea that there isn't a simple answer for every situation. You can't just label abortion "mindless killing," because it might NOT be mindless. For example, what if you got raped? Would you like to go through the pain of birthing the baby and putting it up for adoption just for something that entirely WASN'T your fault? Don't you think that could breed depression and neurotic tendencies in anyone? Don't you think a kid separated from his mother or adopted experiences emotional pain? \nAbortion is done to guard against future harm. If there's a mother who knows she won't be able to care properly for a child, it would be merciful to both her and the growing fetus to undergo abortion. \n\nI do agree with you that the sanctity of a life should be preserved however. Abortion shouldn't be encouraged in women who have sex and think there's just an easy way out. It should be PERMITTED, however, because it is a RIGHT and because in the case of rape it is not a case of a woman having made a bad choice; it is a case of BAD LUCK.
148773
Life, liberty and the persuit of happiness. Without life, there are no rights, so when the out of control Supreme court said it's legal to kill innocent babies before birth, they infringed on every one of their rights. As for the death penalty, those people gave up their right to life when they took another person's life. In that case, it's not murder, but consequences.
175694
Abortion should not have been legalized back in 1973 or so, because it is murder.  God allows individuals and governments to make mistakes with their free will, so it HAS been legalized. Whether we like it or not, I don't think this law is going to go away. However, whatever else I think of President Bush, I am grateful he has put an end to the abominable practice known as "partial birth abortion". I think ANYONE knows THIS is murder.\nI find it amazing that the woman whom our abortion law was named after DID NOT HAVE AN ABORTION. She had her daughter, and both are Christian believers who speak out against abortion. \nHere is what the Word says: If two men are fighting and a "woman with child" is injured and loses the baby, the guilty person has committed a crime. (Exodus 21:22) So I ask you-what if people hurt that child ON PURPOSE?\nHere are some beautiful words: "You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb...You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. \nHow precious are your thoughts about me, O God! They are innumerable! I can't even count them...And when I wake up in the morning, you are still with me!" Psalm 139
635924
I believe in having the choice but with that choice not only murder occurs but guilt comes at the cost.You live your life and have a choice to believe and protect life,if you chose abortion then you have chose murder.In the end you will be judged by the most important person.....God.The babies that are sacrificed are to good for this world.So you want my answer it is choice... so what is yours?
431585
Murder is heinous, and unless you are doing so in self defense it is against every one of our basic tenets is this country.\n\nThe thought that it is acceptable under any other circumstance is just another erosion of our society, that Satan is using to bring us down to his level.  Abortion, the death penalty, battered wife syndrome.  All deceptions of the fact that life taken is murder.  There is a more excellent way to achieve the same results for all of the above issues.  Birth control, adoption, life imprisonment or restitution, education and domestic abuse awareness and programs and housing.  \n\nMurder starts way back at a lack of control, and hatred.  We need to look at those things before the are taken to the level of murder.  There are actual steps, levels of self deception in a way, that lead to murder.\n\nThinking that an eye for an eye, will somehow ease the pain of those left behind.  Thinking that you may pay with your life, has yet to be effective in controlling capital crimes.  Thinking an abortion solves the issues, usually it only starts more issues.  I am in agreement, murder is wrong.\n\nIf you do not want to debate science in the faith and religious aspects of those, then do not enter this category.  It amazes me everyday, that ppl do not see God in science, as He created everything.  There are many things in this universe that can not be explained in evolutionary terms, many!  Denying that science can't answer all the questions, is just wrong.  Faith based individuals say that of course we can't answer all the questions, that is how God set things up so we have to look to Him for the real answers.\n\nBy the way, best question you have ever asked Mr Darwin.
116722
I think that it is an ethical issue. How can we support the murder of our own young? Why is it so hard for people to take responsibility for themselves and know that one of the natural outcomes of sex can be pregnancy. I wish that people who didn't want to have kids would either use birth control correctly and consistantly, or quit having sex.
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this is all philisophical, so there really isn't a "right" answer.  I don't agree with abortion in any case, but if I was to excuse any reasons it would be only two.  One would be rape, child or adult, because the woman couldn't prevent that.  Two, is in the circumstance of placeing the mother in mortal danger of carrying the child.
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I’m agnostic and pro-life, but would not have abortion completely outlawed.  Lt me say upfront that I do not judge or blame any individual for having an abortion, what ever the reason.  Society has made it completely acceptable and it is the fault of all of us collectively, not the individual.   Unfortunately, people use rare exceptions which end up making abortion common place and a method of birth control.  How does that happen?  Just like the rape and incest exceptions they also use abuse by a parent as a reason for not having parental notification.  If you really want to think of all of the rare exceptions out there then there are just as many damaging one’s from making abortion easy as from outlawing or limiting it.\n\nStarting with your example of a girl who is raped by her father, it could be traumatic for her to go on with a pregnancy, but if she doesn’t isn’t it more likely that her father will continue to rape her?  If she were pregnant her father could be caught.  If the evidence is destroyed he can continue to rape her.  Also isn’t it at least as likely that a girl who was raped could be traumatized by the “decision” to kill the baby?   Even if she isn’t at the time she makes the “decision” she could be at a later time.  I’ve known many people (way too many) who have had abortions and most of them regret it to some degree or another.  I’ve never known anyone who regretted having their child even the one’s who  gave them up for adoption (they might regret that they gave them up, but not that they had them).\n\nThe abuse by a parent for the parental notification is another common exception people use to make abortion free and easy.  People who use this exception don’t really understand abusive homes.     I have had close friends who lived in extremely abusive homes to the point of being beaten to near death.  The thing with an abusive parent is, it has nothing to do with what the child does. Anything and everything triggers the abuse.  People, who think that the child gets beaten because of their actions, don’t understand abuse.   If an abusive parent finds out about a pregnancy, will they most likely abuse?  Yes.  But they will find another reason if the child doesn’t get pregnant.  Having an abortion will not stop a child from getting abused.  In addition, it is very rare for both parents to be abusive and the non abusive one is usually very protective and even encourages the beatings to be transferred to them.  The non abusive parent is the one the child would tell.  In the extremely rare case where both parents are abusive, most parental notification laws give an exception for a judge to overrule the requirement.  \n\nI hope you don’t take offense to my answer and I hope it doesn’t come across as critical of you personally or of your intentions.  I know this is a sensitive topic for people.   I used to feel the same way as you do, until I had a child and felt the miracle of the whole process.  It made me start questioning things more and not buy into the position being fed by the media and by pro-abortion groups that have a larger agenda than women’s rights.
712999
Abortion is not murder. A fetus is not considered a human life.\n\n    If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life. -- Exodus 21:22-23\n\nThe Bible places no value on fetuses or infants less than one month old.\n\n    And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver. -- Leviticus 27:6\n\nFetuses and infants less than one month old are not considered persons.\n\n    Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them. And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD. -- Numbers 3:15-16\n\nGod sometimes approves of killing fetuses.\n\n    And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? ... Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. -- Numbers 31:15-17\n    (Some of the non-virgin women must have been pregnant. They would have been killed along with their unborn fetuses.)\n\n    Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. -- Hosea 9:14\n\n    Yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb. -- Hosea 9:16\n\n    Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up. -- Hosea 13:16
1101171
I am not anti-choice but, I really don't like abortion either. The decision should be the women's and whoever she slept with (If he is around) - not the government, churches, president or some televangelist scam artist. There is a reason a fetus is not called a baby; Babies are born. A fetus is a potential life and no more  alive than a tumor. We don't give the death penalty to doctors for removing tumors. (Thank god)\n\nMy answer is: NO
952931
Hell yes abortion should be illegal! It's murdering a human being, no matter how you look at it! A woman knows what causes her to become pregnant, and if she doesn't want a baby, she should stop being a  s l u t  and close her legs! I understand  there's issues with rape and what not, but you have a point, that's still a child, and it's not that child's fault that he/she is a product of rape. Adoption would be a great idea I would think for situations like that.\n\nIt would be bad for a doctor to take a newborn baby and strangle him or her to death or bash his or her head in on the floor wouldn't it? So what's the damn difference with an abortion, just because you can't see the baby yet, it means it's not a person? Anyone who supports abortion is a total idiot, they should support murder of every kind then if they don't want to be a hypocrite!
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How about a liberal answer this question?  The death penalty issue is so far removed from the abortion issue.\nThe right to choose is about a womans right to make decisions about her own body and nobody, especially the government, should have greater say over her.  Likewise, the government should not have the ability to end a life.  The main problem is that fact that people have be wrongly convicted and dna freed them.  And people have been scapegoated because they could not pin the crime on the truely guilty party.  I don't have ANY LOVE for killers, rapist, scum of any description.  I know that innocent people have gone to jail and we need to protect them.  If even one innocent person is slain we are all guilty of that murder.
705774
Here are my thoughts. Abortion is a great thing. There are a lot of young people who get pregnant (for whatever reason) and they should not have a baby. They are either too young, or don't have the money, or don't the the stability to be a good parent for tehir would-be-child. It would be better off for the mother to have an abortion in order to save her from ruining her life than it would for her to have the child and ruin both lives? I do not believe it is murder. When you become pregnant you have a fetus inside you which a lump of cells that are growing. That is why it is called a fetus and not a baby. \n\nI posted a question you might be interested in...http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ak5wtwSGer6KbOR7E5Azqsrsy6IX?qid=20061105134759AAqPvKb
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I think it's a very misunderstood issue - the other answers confirm this. You can't simply label it "murder" and feel satisfied with yourself for being morally surperior. It's not that simple. \n\nIf an abortion takes place early on, this "human being" is still only a collection of cells, no bigger than the period at the end of this sentence.\n\nI refuse to decide whether it is right or wrong, however, because, I will admit, I am no expert on the subject. But neither are most of the people who have answered "Murder!" It is not our place to make that decision, nor is it anyone's place to harass a woman who is trying to decide whether or not to go through with one.