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I'm lost, Ted. Are you proposing that you don't just live with your religion and positions on issues like abortion, but impose them upon nonChristians?
1) The Constitution clearly states government shall neither prohibit nor endorse any one religion. So, the Constitution makes it impossible to impose Christian values on another from a legal standpoint
2) Why would a Christian ask a nonChristian to follow their religious code? If a Muslim told you to stop eating pork because it is unclean according to the Quran, would you? If not, to then demand it of others isn't loving your neighbor.
3) Why would we as Christians want everyone to follow a Christian code of ethics, rather than hear about Christ?
4) How would we even determine what that code of ethics would look like when Christians hold such different viewpoints?
A friend of mine came over to hang out, and started insisting that abortion was wrong in all instances. When he asked me, I told him that as a gay man, I don't think about it often, bc I will never be in a situation where one of us is pregnant. To say it is always wrong leaves little room for circumstances of, for example, a father impregnated his 11 yr old daughter he is molesting, or rape. In the instance of rape, he asked why the baby should suffer. I asked why the woman should have to relive a trauma with a pregnancy that happened without her consent.,
At some point, I asked him why this concerned him so much. He is also gay, knows no one personally getting an abortion. So, I then asked what he did for the women who kept their babies - was he actively in support of funding for single mothers trying to feed their baby? Was he involved in resources that provide childcare?
Nothing. He really cared about the unborn. Once they are born, he feels done with his job.
Getting back to the OP, I agree that both parties should be held responsible. However, we also need to change our current social views. Some churches preach Purity - saving yourself until marriage, but inly to the girls. For the boys, it's more of a "wink, wink, nudge, nudge." Men are called Romeo, Lady's Man, Stud, while women are called harlots, etc.
Men are taught that having sex with a lot of women shows how great you are with your peers, teaches that the woman is responsible for birth control, and simply by being male, whether fornication is a sin or not, no one will confront you on it.
We also need more support for single mothers, need to stop judging single mothers who chose to keep their baby, nor tell someone if they couldn't afford the child they shouldn't have had them.
What happens in issues that are very emotionally charged is that people on both sides get more caught up in fighting the opposition, than pregnant women themselves.
Check out the movie Citizen Ruth. She gets caught in the battle between ProLife and ProChoice.
Less than 5% of the abortion performed in the US are due to rape, incest or health of the mother; most abortion are performed because it wasn't the right time to have a child. I agree with you 100% though, men have to be more responsible for the creation of a child. Aot of women fall in love with the man and would do anything to keep the relationship good and going. Alot of times, the guy was wants to have sex without much responsibility. Not right. I don't know if I would goes so far as to make them have a temporary vasectomy as the OP suggested but I would prevent young people from having close contact for long periods of time in private.
I also agree that our society needs to do more for the women who are faced with an unexpected pregnancy. One, give them a place to stay where they will get support for their child and themselves. Unfortunately, the men involved in these pregnancies have no job or a very low wage job. So much for financial support but the guy should be made to help support the child by caring for the baby. Now if the guy does have money then make him help with the mother' and child's expenses.
If the guy is a repeat offender then its a permanent vasectomy, sorry, they chose to be a bum.
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