Are you in support of abortion rights or not, and why?No, I do not support abortion rights beyond one being a medical necessity to save the mother’s life, which is a rare case. I am even sliding away from making exceptions in the case of rape or incest. I used to allow for those in my anti-abortion stance out of a sense of mercy for the child, but killing a child in the name of mercy is not justified. A child born out of rape or incest is a tragedy, but not, I think, as big a one as murdering him or her.
The numbers we are talking about here are very small:
Only 1% are performed because of rape or incest;That leave 95% of abortions done as birth control. rationalizing abortion as a birth control method is morally repugnant. If a woman demands control over her own body, her efforts ought to begin with not getting pregnant in the first place.
1% because of fetal abnormalities;
3% due to the mother's health problems.
Abortion is a barbaric practice in general. From the decision to have one to the procedure itself and the rare, but still in existence Born Alive Acts meant to finish off any baby who survives an abortion, there is nothing good about abortion. Forty-six million of them have been performed since 1973. The number of children aborted is equal to the population of Spain. You cannot call that anything but genocide.
It is even worse when you consider the vast number of abortions are performed on minorities. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has admitted one of the rationales behind Roe was the ethnic cleansing of minorities. Social Darwinism has no place in a civilized society, much less should be considered an enlightened, intellectual stance.
If you want a personal rationale, here goes. On a Biblical basis, the 139th p\Psalm, written by David, notes that God is aware of all the days of David’s life, even before he was formed in the womb. Christians must accept the belief of preexistence, not just life beginning at conception. Science supports the concept of life beginning at conception, as well. Basic high school biology--when a cell splits, it is alive. The reality renders all arguments regarding viability or abortion as a civil right moot.
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If you read my recent post concerning "Christian Democrats," I mentioned that the democratic Party actively promotes the murder of the unborn and the practice of sodomy. I will not encourage anyone to join the Republican Party (I left it myself); but how can any Christian justify being a Democrat? (Just thought I'd ask a question to anger as many people as possible.)
I'd like to raise a bit of a quibble with a statement in your last paragraph. You say, "Science supports the concept of life beginning at conception, as well. Basic high school biology--when a cell splits, it is alive."
This seems to be largely untrue. To quote a well-known biologist/blogger/liberal/atheist, P.Z. Myers
"Life does not begin at conception.
It's an utterly nonsensical position to take. There is never a "dead" phase -- life is continuous. Sperm are alive, eggs are alive; you could even make the argument that since two cells (gametes) enter, but only one cell (a zygote) leaves, fertilization ends a life. Not that I would make that particular claim myself, but it's definitely true that life is more complicated than the simplistic ideologues of the anti-choice movement would make it."
Life is a sticky topic. There isn't one good definition for what is alive, or when it suddenly becomes alive. From a biological perspective though, it seems that what you said isn't true. That doesn't make it untrue, it just happens to be your personal line of when you think life begins.
I consider the fact that some 88% of abortions occur by week 12 in pregnancy, a point where an embryo is roughly 2 inches long. I certainly wouldn't call that a life (and this is where you would differ and say it is-you largely due to your faith), but even when I was religious I still respected that not all people believed in God and even of those that did not all believed that life began at conception.
I don't deny your stance on abortion, but I wonder how you consider it a defensible one when there are large groups of people that do not hold to your particular moral values. Large groups of people that either aren't religious, or might be, yet would still allow for abortions. I guess I'm asking, how would you answer this formspring question without projecting your brand of faith on others? Do you think it is acceptable to impose your set of values over another persons? Actually, I suppose if you are Christian and life is considered sacred, maybe you do consider it acceptable? O_o
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