juliaoceania
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I will weigh in even though no one really cares what my opinion is on this subject because they have all made up their minds.... First of all there are incongruities among the pro-life crowd that really trouble me.... The first one is this: In the case of rape it is somehow ok to murder the "baby". If you really believe that it is murder, then it is murder no matter how that "life" came to be... it makes no sense to put a value judgment (yours mind you) about which life is of value and which isn't.. what ya'll that hold this position really think that children are some punishment for having consensual sex, and if you did not consent that means that you should not have to have that punishment exacted against you... babies are not punishments. I am pro choice. I do not want the government in my pussy, or telling my doctor what to do. I do not think that a fetus/embryo is a sentient life until it can live without the mother, and even then if the mother's life is in danger her life supercedes that of the child if she wants that. I have no qualifiers to this position, I do not need to rationalize how it is ok to murder children of rape (which those that holdthe position abortion is murder but take the position that it is ok in the case of rape or incest are playing God in my opinion). For those who are prolife because you think your bible tells you so, here are some choice bible passages that show clearly where the old testement hebrew god comes down on this matter quote:
{Exodus 21: 22-25} reads: " When people who are fighting injure a pregnant woman so that there is a miscarriage, ( i.e. an 'involuntary abortion') and yet no further harm follows, the one responsible shall be fined what the woman's husband demands, paying as much as the judges determine. If any harm follows (to the human being involved here), then you shall give life for life (i.e. death penalty), eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe." quote:
The Hebrew Bible in English according to the JPS 1917 edition "And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow, he shall be surely fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine . But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life. . ." http://www.liberalslikechrist.org/about/abortion-1.html The Bible also explicitly states several times that the breath of life is when life begins.... Not that all of you are pro life because you are Christian, but those of you who are, the Bible can be interpreted more than one way on the matter
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