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What are your views on abortion?

Before you answer, let me give my view on it.

I believe that it is murder, it is the killing if an unborn baby. Some would argue that it is not technically murder because it isn't a baby &that it is a fetus. But "fetus" is the same as "an unborn BABY" & if you can live with the guilt of killing a baby, then you've got some SERIOUS problems.

Update:

Okay, I've read all of your answers so far & some of them make since; but wouldn't it make since to just go ahead & have the baby & give it up for adoption INSTEAD of killing it?

Now for those of you who are pro-choice that did'nt insult me & explained their answer in a polite manner, thank you & I respect you.

Update 2:

And I did NOT base my reasoning on my religion, I based it on common sense.

Update 3:

And I'm not trying to forcemy opinions on anyone, I just think that it is SICK to kill a poor, helpless, defenseless baby.

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  • Jeff M
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    no one hear has Quoted God yet! So, lets take a minute to see what The Word says. Hosea 4:6; My people perish for lack of knowledge.

    Proverb 1:7; The beginning of wisdom and knowledge is the fear of the Lord.

    proverb 8:13; The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way And the perverse mouth I hate.

    ! Corinthians 3:16; 6:13-20; Romans 1:27; and Jude 7 tell us that immoral sexual conduct, (which would be sex out of marriage) is dangerous to your health. Also lets us know that these bodies (temples) are NOT ours, they are on "loan" from God, and when you defile the "temple", you gotta problem.When you defile(sin) you do give place to the devil,which his sole responsibility is to "steal, kill, and destroy".The ONLY way to get right is a biblical deliverance. So, now you want to compound the problem with "murdering a child that has no way to protect, or defend themselves. What is Gods thoughts on this?Jeremiah 1:5 informs us that life begins at feertilization. God declares that He knew each and EVERY one of us before the foundatuions of the earth. So, He knew if someone was going to get raped, etc., so that means He has a plan for that child, Today, with our modern science, it is an irrefutable biological FACT that the fertilized egg is truly an ENTIRE human being. NOTHING will be added to the first cell except nutrition and oxygen. HELLO!!!

    Exodus 21: 22-23; states the biblical penalty for murdering an unborn child was death. Hmmm!! How many abortions would we have if that was still the case??

  • posas
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    I easily have a question for you....say your thirteen yo daughter gets RAPED possibly even by skill of a relatives member and could become pregnant? Then what the hell do you do (this befell to my perfect buddy)?. if so, while you're raped by skill of a stranger, and grow to be pregnant...do you think of you may improve the toddler as a loving be sure and not harbor resentment in direction of that toddler? i don't have confidence in abortion as 'beginning administration', yet I do experience that there are some issues that would desire to be considered in the previous all people is judged for having an abortion. To be uncomplicated, I had an appointment to have an abortion as quickly as I have been given pregnant on the age of 18....my buddy, who grew to become into additionally pregnant begged me to be sure her OB, after that examination there grew to become into no way i could do it, I now have a sixteen yo. son who i could not think of existence without him. additionally, as a female, I easily have the fabulous to chosen what I do to MY physique, not have somebody else, a guy no much less, make those judgements for me. i might incredibly have abortion be criminal than for a youthful female to finally end up hacked by skill of a few back alley butcher! This subject remember is like beating a ineffective horse, all of us have our own opinion and till the two one persons is confronted with the concern for my area, no you may make any judgement.

  • 1 decade ago

    I don't know how I feel about it. I'm not that passionate about the subject as I know that there are secular arguments against it.

    I personally would never get an abortion, but I think people should still have the right. It's not my job to push my morals on others. I think eating meat is murder. I bet you don't want me to make that illegal do you? Didn't think so. Even though I understand a fetus is a potential life, I think a puppy or a cow is more of a life than that fetus, and to me, killing them is MURDER. But I understand there are people who disagree so I don't expect everyone to.

    I do think there comes a point where the mother shouldn't be allowed to abort the baby anymore. Fellow pro choicers are going to get down my throat at this, but I think that once you reach the 3rd trimester, you might as well just put them up for adoption.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I don't think it's a good thing, but I also don't think it's bad. Say you were a 13 year old girl who was raped and you found out you were pregnant, I don't think that anybody in their right mind should make a child (young teen, whatever) go through that. You have a whole life ahead of you, you shouldn't need to worry about things like that when your so young. Now if your older, 20 or up, maybe even younger, in your late teens, you could always have the baby and put it up for adoption. I just think that young girls who get pregnant on a complete and total accident shouldn't need to go through with that. If they willingly had un-protected sex I would probably think that abortion wouldn't be good in that case. They should learn the consequence of their actions, even if they will put it up for adoption. Bearing a child is hard enough.

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  • 1 decade ago

    For those that think it's a choice issue, then to be consistent, you must also be in favor of prostitution and legalizing drugs, since it is your "choice" what you do with your own body.

    Yet, most who favor the choice to murder unborn babies are against the other two. I have no respect for people like that.

    As Al Gore once said, "if we're unsure whether abortion is killing an unborn baby, then we should always err on the side of protecting human life."

  • 1 decade ago

    I believe it is murder too regardless of whether it is called a fetus or a baby. It is human life that someone is killing. However if a friend or someone I knew well enough wanted to have an abortion I wouldnt share my opinions with them. To each their own. What I believe in might not always be the same as what my close friends believe in.

  • 1 decade ago

    Josh B I couldn't agree more.

    No one has the right to force anyone to carry a baby they don't want. Just because you disagree with abortion shouldn't mean that no one can have one.

    I am pro choice, I believe that the decision should be down to the mother, not the government or "pro life" lobbyists.

    Also, believing that a woman has a right to choose doesn't mean I hate all babies and would definitely have an abortion, and it certainly doesn't make me a child murderer.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    I believe a fetus is the same as a baby whether in the womb or out of the womb.

    Here is why: God told Jeremiah that He knew him when he was a baby in his mother's womb. Shows that God considered Jeremiah, even as a fetus, important enough to know. How can you know the essence of a person if it is just tissue.

    Another example is when Mary, who was pregnant with Jesus at the time, visited her cousin Elizabeth, who was carrying John the Baptist at the time, told Mary that the baby in her womb leaped for joy when the baby heard her greeting. Tissue can't have feelings.

    Source(s): Jeremiah 1:5 Luke 1:44
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think it is a horible and no-hearted thing to do. Why would you even try to have a baby, if your just going to abort it? My cousin is 14 and she got pregnent. Her mom got angry so she forced my cousin to abort it. I believe that you should have the baby even though she was only 15 because what if that was you? Would you want to be aborted? I agree, it is basically murdering a child and not know what that child can blossom into; a writer, a priest, a singer, something that will make that child noticed, and you ruin a pefectly good child. Shame on abortion. Shame.

    Source(s): My views about abortion
  • 1 decade ago

    I think there's a pretty big line between something with the potential to become a baby, and an actual baby.

    Also, I'm not particularly comfortable with a government being able to say to a woman "Okay, you're going to have a baby"

    Further, I don't think you could stop abortions with legislation. If someone really doesn't want to be pregnant, they will find some way to terminate.

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