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Abortion: The Real Reason Why States are Passing Laws Against It
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<blockquote data-quote="FenderTL5" data-source="post: 73975456" data-attributes="member: 388072"><p>You can count me as a pro-life person who is on board. I am staunchly pro-life, which for me includes the issues of abortion, capital punishment and euthanasia.</p><p>However it also also overlaps into issues of poverty, health care, war, guns, immigration, and protection of minorities. I try to look at every issue through the lens of life being sacred, <u>all</u> of it.</p><p></p><p>As this applies to abortion, I don't think government should be funding it (and it doesn't). otoh, I DO see this as a huge healthcare issue; pre/post natal care as well as the woman's healthcare pre/post pregnancy. Then there's the issues of poverty and increasing inequality in the economics of our country. Let's face it, abortion legal or not, will always be an option for those with enough means. For that matter, 'affordable healthcare' is commensurate with wealth/income in the USA.</p><p></p><p>70% of abortions are by those who claim to be Christians (<a href="https://lifewayresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Care-Net-Final-Presentation-Report-Revised.pdf" target="_blank">Lifeway Research, SBC</a>) and a majority are kept silent/secret (<a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/70-of-women-who-get-abortions-identify-as-christians-survey-finds.html" target="_blank">Christian Post article on the same research</a>). The blatant hypocrisy on this issue is appalling to me. Even when<a href="https://www.focusonthefamily.com/pro-life/pre-born/survey-women-go-silently-from-church-to-abortion-clinic" target="_blank"> Focus on the Family tries to spin it positively</a>, the conclusion remains “if nobody is willing to say, ‘We’re going to help you through this,’ it’s hard for them to rationally say they should keep the child.”</p><p>Which gets back to your point; society and even more the church needs to address the underlying issues.</p><p>If Christians wanted to reduce abortions by more than half, they'd stop getting them and start being pro-life and not merely (hypocritically) anti-abortion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FenderTL5, post: 73975456, member: 388072"] You can count me as a pro-life person who is on board. I am staunchly pro-life, which for me includes the issues of abortion, capital punishment and euthanasia. However it also also overlaps into issues of poverty, health care, war, guns, immigration, and protection of minorities. I try to look at every issue through the lens of life being sacred, [U]all[/U] of it. As this applies to abortion, I don't think government should be funding it (and it doesn't). otoh, I DO see this as a huge healthcare issue; pre/post natal care as well as the woman's healthcare pre/post pregnancy. Then there's the issues of poverty and increasing inequality in the economics of our country. Let's face it, abortion legal or not, will always be an option for those with enough means. For that matter, 'affordable healthcare' is commensurate with wealth/income in the USA. 70% of abortions are by those who claim to be Christians ([URL='https://lifewayresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Care-Net-Final-Presentation-Report-Revised.pdf']Lifeway Research, SBC[/URL]) and a majority are kept silent/secret ([URL='https://www.christianpost.com/news/70-of-women-who-get-abortions-identify-as-christians-survey-finds.html']Christian Post article on the same research[/URL]). The blatant hypocrisy on this issue is appalling to me. Even when[URL='https://www.focusonthefamily.com/pro-life/pre-born/survey-women-go-silently-from-church-to-abortion-clinic'] Focus on the Family tries to spin it positively[/URL], the conclusion remains “if nobody is willing to say, ‘We’re going to help you through this,’ it’s hard for them to rationally say they should keep the child.” Which gets back to your point; society and even more the church needs to address the underlying issues. If Christians wanted to reduce abortions by more than half, they'd stop getting them and start being pro-life and not merely (hypocritically) anti-abortion. [/QUOTE]
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