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Monica02

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No, of course not. Even worse is killing the child - no child deserves that.
 
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Evee said:
If someone is born so severely mentally and physically handicapped then what?
Would you wish that child not be born?
Just wondering.

These handicapped children have just as much a right to their life as you or me have to ours. SHould we kill someone who becomes handicapped after birth? Do agree with the execution of Terri Shiavo?
 
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Monica02 said:
These handicapped children have just as much a right to their life as you or me have to ours. SHould we kill someone who becomes handicapped after birth? Do agree with the execution of Terri Shiavo?
Terry Schiavo was not executed. I think we can make our points without resorting to plain untruths. This is very unChristian.
 
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I believe abortion = murder.

However, I also believe people need to not be stupid and get pregnant without planning.
And if you are unmarried and sinning with premarital intercourse, please use birth control.
I hear SO many ppl (Catholic) say BC is a sin, yet they are having sex without marriage! Please! And then maybe having children out of wedlock with non-existant fathers. Grr. Kids outside marriage are a sin IMO, but it is trendy nowadays.

Last I heard the US has three million unwanted kids. That includes many unhealthy ones.
I get tired of hearing the "adoption" mantra - because people falsely believe every child will be wanted when born. I work in an inner city hospital where plent of NICU babies - born at 6-7 mn gestation - are dumped after birth by their IV shooting, crank snorting 14 year old mothers. And FAS babies are the worse to place. There is no long line for "special" babies..although a few families do have their arms opened big enough.

Even if a child lives...there can still be sin involved.

Although it is murder though, I doubt I could fault a rape victim who aborts if a pregnancy resulted.
 
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SugarMag said:
IHowever, I also believe people need to not be stupid and get pregnant without planning..

If you have a cure for stupidity, what are you doing here? Your fortune is made.
 
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Ragamuffins said:
Who cares? I wasn't the first to bring it up, and about his rights: No one has the right to take anothers life. Period.
"But he did it first"

Every adult who deals with children on a regular basis (whether parent or teacher) will now stop taking anything you say seriously for the next half hour out of force of habit. Including the second half of your post, whatever it was.
 
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louchstr87 said:
Abortion is murder. Murder is the ultimate sin, which can NEVER be justified.
The ultimate sin is "grieving away the Holy Spirit". As for abortion, it is murder, and that is breaking the Sixth Commandment (no matter the circumstances. Would you kill a child because he is an inconvenience after he is out of the womb?)
 
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statrei said:
But why is it that most who claim to be pro-life assume that the opposition are pro-abortion?

Because they are.

It is simple. Both sides believe in choice. There are three choices possible -- live birth and keeping, live birth and adopting out, and murder. Pro-life people and their opposition BOTH believe in the first two choices. Only the opposition believes in the additional choice of murder. So they are pro-abortion. They may not "prefer" abortion, but they are definitly PRO-abortion. The other side is ANTI-abortion.
 
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Don't you support abortion under certain conditions? If the mother's life is in danger what do you recommend?
 
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statrei said:
Don't you support abortion under certain conditions? If the mother's life is in danger what do you recommend?

When a circumstance arises where continuing will kill BOTH (almost exclusively a tubal pregnancy), then the only other option is to remove the child. This is not done by a standard abortion procedure, but by removal of the tube itself. In some instances, where the child may still be in the tube, but very near the uterine entrance, a methotrexate chemical abortion may be possible. In either event, morally that is simply a "double effect" -- the act has the intentional effect of saving the mother's life while having the unintentional effect of killing th child. It is rather like being only able to throw the rope to one of two drowning people.

Other than that exteremely rare circumstance, no.
 
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In other words, you are pro abortion. Thank you. Are you also pro-death penalty?
 
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