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Regarding Abortion?

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The article specifies that the defendant was "almost aborted by his mother." Spiritually speaking, would the world not be a better place had she gone forward with the abortion?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    there goes that anti choice arguement that every aborted fetus will grow up to be some hero or cure finder. read my profile. it is another example of why abortion must be available

  • 1 decade ago

    Well, drug obsessed irresponsible women should not raise kids. And the guy knew that his mother didn't want him. What can I say?

    Some people act as if we banned abortion that all the resulting unwanted pregnancies would become wanted, loving children in a good home and that the impact of such government intrusion would be only positive. I like the enthusiasm, but they are living in a pipe dream. Babies are left in dumpsters. Not everyone should have a kid. And contraception is not 100% fail safe (neither is stupidity).

    I think the world would be a better place if that psycho woman had never raised any child (abortion, adoption, or whatnot).

    Source(s): atheist, pro-choice
  • Daver
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    People are not the creators of life. We're merely pro-creators. It's God's call when to begin a life, so it's God's call when a life ends.

    There are people out there who think they reserve the "Godly" right to determine when a life begins and even when a life ends. It's not our place to make those decisions, and God calls to account anyone who think's it is their personal right.

    ABORTION - In Catholic morality, abortion is either direct (induced) or indirect. Direct abortion is any destruction of the product of human conception, whether before or after implantation in the womb. A direct abortion is one that is intended either as an end in itself or as a means to an end. As a willful attack on unborn human life, no matter what the motive, direct abortion is always a grave objective evil.

    Indirect abortion is the foreseen but merely permitted evacuation of a fetus which cannot survive outside the womb. The evacuation is not the intended or directly willed result, but the side effect, of some legitimate procedure. As such it is morally allowable.

    The essential sinfulness of direct abortion consists in the homicidal intent to kill innocent life. This factor places the controverted question as to precisely when human life begins, outside the ambit of the moral issue; as it also makes the now commonly held Catholic position that human life begins at conception equally outside the heart of the church's teaching about the grave sinfulness of direct abortion.

    Abortion has been condemned by the Church since apostolic times. The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, composed before A.D. 100, told the faithful "You shall not procure abortion. You shall not destroy a newborn child" (II, 2). Direct abortion and infanticide were from the beginning placed on the same level of malice.

    Hundreds of ecclesiastical documents from the first century through to the present testify to the same moral doctrine, with such nuances as time, place, and circumstances indicated. The Second Vatican Council declared: "Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception," so that "abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes" (Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, IV, 51). Pope Paul VI confirmed this teaching in 1974. "Respect for human life,' he wrote, "is called for from the time that the process of generation begins. From the time that the ovum is fertilized, a life is begun which is neither that of the father nor of the mother. It is rather the life of a new human being with its own growth. It would never be made human if it were not human already." Consequently, "divine law and natural reason exclude all right to the direct killing of an innocent human being" (Declaration on Procured Abortion, III, 12). (Etym. Latin abortivus, born prematurely, abortive; from aboriri, to miscarry.)

    Source(s): www.catholicreference.net
  • 1 decade ago

    I heard that Hitler's mother was advised to have an abortion. Not genuinely sure if that's true or not but I definitely am pro-choice b/c it's not that improbable. Plus, a million other reasons a person should be able to decide what to do with their life. I'm assuming they know the relevant information better than a bunch of strangers.

    Source(s): If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?
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  • pipahh
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    No it would not have been better if he never lived. There is no justification for murder.

    In that article the person says that he didn't mean to hurt anybody, and he even asks for prayers... I think the guilt is tearing him apart. Even "the jury foreman said at a news conference after the verdict that he did not believe Alvarez planned to kill or harm anyone."

    Mistakes happen, bad choices are made, but the Lord lets the sun shine and the rain to fall on the good and bad alike (Matthew 5:45) providing for all what is needed for salvation. It is not our place to be judge, jury, and executioner.

    Source(s): Roman Catholic
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Abortionally speaking, ....yes

    just watch the national geographic special on the California Christian Missions that line the coast......Hundreds of aborted fetuses in shallow graves that no one was ever meant to find.

    The nuns that operated them where molested for hundreds of years by the clergy and gave each other abortions to hide the raping from the public for fear of making the religion look bad.....as if that would wipe out the dark ages or the Salem witch hunts or the Inquisition or on and on and on..

    So I say if its good enough for the clergy its good enough for me....Abortionally speaking of course

    Source(s): Nat Geo Channel special on California missions
  • 1 decade ago

    His mother didn't want him and probably treated him like s*** while growing up. That's probably why he ended up the way he did.

    By the way, abortion is not murder. Murder is committed against a person. A person does not begin life until they are born. Otherwise, I'm celebratinng the wrong birthday it should be nine months earlier.

  • Stanbo
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    The world would be a better place if people would pay attention and report child abuse when it is suspected. If this person had gone through the "horrific abuse" as the article stated, surely someone would have suspected it. Then he could have been removed from this home and place in a better environment.

    God bless,

    Stanbo

  • 1 decade ago

    Perhaps but we will never know about all the greatness murdered in mom's womb either. 1.4 million have been aborted every year since 1973 and mostly by women over the age of 25 whose main reason was that it was not convenient to have a baby right then.

    How many scientists, professors, educators, great people, have been murdered since 1973?

  • 1 decade ago

    That statement doesn't mean anything people will say anything to get out of trouble he probably didn't know she was going to have the abortion and if he did it is because she told him at the trial. I do not believe in abortion at all.

  • 1 decade ago

    No, it would have been a better plan if she had put him up for adoption into a family that would have given him a stable homelife.

    His right to life is just as important as the right those 11 people on the train had to live. They are all equals in my eyes, and I don't think one should be sacrificed to save 11 or 11 should be sacrificed to save 1.

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