I abstained from this thread with the exception of one previous post which Hoax is making me pay dearly for. But here I go again, everyone has made excellent points here , I see the validity in all the opinions and yet many of them are in direct contradiction to others. A very loaded debate, I think on that ,most of us can agree.
Perhaps, it is akin to the question of vegetarianism. Some people don't eat meat on the grounds that it is murder and inherently violent. Others argue that we were born to be meat eaters and point to scripture and to the four canine teeth in their jaws as proof we were designed to do so. All valid points.
I think that if many meat eaters were to visit slaughterhouses, their gut reactions might say differently than their opinions. That much being said, many vegetarians look to be in a varying states of very ill health, so that visual example seems to scream that they haven't quite figured it out yet either.
In terms of the abortion issue. Pro abortionists can visit the slaughterhouse so to speak by seeing the images that are out there on the web and perhaps their gut reactions might indicate to those who argue that the fetus isn't alive, that their beliefs on life are not what they are cracked up to be. . For those who argue, that women who are victims are rapes should not be allowed to have abortions: I would tend to believe if it were your daughter who were the victim of rape, your views might have a greater probability of changing as well .
As for me, hmmmm. I am pretty certain that abortion is murder and I won't seek these images on the net to confirm my certainties, wanna stay in denial. Does life begin at conception? Maybe maybe not, but at some point, there is life in there, in my opinion and probably a lot earlier than I would like to think , maybe up to the point of conception. Hey you can even argue, that masturbation is killing as those sperm had the potential for life. Just throwing that one out there, I believe the old testament had such prohibitions on this action, not by that term mind you.
So for the time being abortion is the law of the land, for better or worse. Many on the religious right are obviously against it. Also, I have visited many religious websites whose members hold this view and also many of them hold the view that the soul of the aborted child goes to heaven because he can not be held at fault for never having the valid chance of accepting Jesus. If true and by that standard of reasoning, one can argue that one should abort every child because he or she will go to heaven(what loving mother wouldn't want that?) . If the children were born, there would be obviously a greater chance , in the eyes of this reasoning, that they would go to hell as not all would make the decision to be saved (and what loving mother would want that?) Perhaps the theology is wrong and if so,to what degree? I'll just let that question hang without answering, partly because I can't .
I'll just close by saying may god help and bless us all (and not just americans)
