Religion and abortions
@ChurchOfIntegrity (23)
April 29, 2007 4:10pm CST
I believe the Vatican recently claimed that abortions were terrorism. Do you agree with the statement from the Vatican? What views does your religion have on abortion? Will you follow the message of your church leaders blindly?
I also wondered what would happen if we forgot religion for a second and tried to make up our mind about abortion just based on some ethical rules. Is that possible or is religion perhaps so intrinsic to our ethical values that it is impossible to distinguish the two?
When you answer the question then please comment both on the human rights of the mother that wants the abortion and the "thing" that is being aborted (I say "thing" because some claim it to be a human being while others don't want to call it a human being until in the second trimester or something).
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@emeraldisle (13139)
• United States
30 Apr 07
Although religion can help form ones ethical viewpoint it is not the only thing to help form. For some it isn't even a factor in their ethics or moralality thought processes while for others it is all there is for it.
I am pro-choice in that it is up to the mother to decide for themselves. I don't think anyone should decide for them. Until one is in that situation how can we say what we would do? That being said I'm not for partial birth abortion or for ones after the fifth month. When the baby can survive out of the womb it is a being and should be respected as such.
@eden32 (3973)
• United States
29 Apr 07
I don't think that religion & morals/ethics are at all tied to each other. I know many ethical, moral people without any religious beliefs and there are certainly many "religious" people without any moral or ethical code in their life.
Religious leaders can dictate what their followers should or shouldn't do; but that's where their influence needs to end. The rest of us do not need the leaders of religions we're not followers of, dictating how to live our lives.
All that said, choosing to end a pregnancy is a very personal & difficult time in a woman's life. If she chooses to seek out the opinion of her clergy, that's her choice. If she doesn't, the church has no business in what's happening in her body. Nor does anyone else.
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@monkeywriter (2004)
• United States
30 Apr 07
A baby is a human. Its never a fetus. Not saying about God in this. Lets just state the facts. The heart beat, the fingers and toes. Whatever you want to say. Just recall its a human. Its murder. Think about all those babies killed. I think just cause the baby is unwanted doesnt mean kill it.
@ChurchOfIntegrity (23)
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30 Apr 07
Umm, it starts out as a single cell, there is no heart beat, no fingers, no toes. Does that make any difference to you? (Just curious because you mentioned those exact things)
