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Author:
glenn
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Date Posted: 07/29/06 9:27am
In reply to:
Jim
's message, "Preventing vs taking, is there a difference?" on 07/29/06 7:01am
Jim, I don't mind arguing the issue but when you start the name calling, I'm gone. I'm just not interested in that.
I'm not sure what you mean by prevention vs taking. But I'll give it a shot:
As far as birth control goes, I am not opposed to it because it prevents conception from occuring. I'm not sure how the church feels about this right now. I know that the church would be against birth control AFTER conception has occured.
Catholic teaching is that life begins at conception.
The point I raised is I believe that abortion is killing. It has nothing to do with what a woman does with her body. I'm focused on the child, not the body. As Melissa stated, the body is "the vessel". The issue at hand is whether or not the child inside is a child. If it's a child, it should have the right to live as the rest of us do.
I'm not about oppression of women. People that do know me, know me to be an extremely sensative person - especially toward women. I would never in my life condemn or treat indifferently a woman who has had an abortion. If anything (and I have) I would help council if necessary.
The problem I see with abortion is it is NOT on peoples radar screen. Most people get bullet points about it but don't really think about it in depth. Take religion out of it. What we should be thinking about is whether or not the child inside is the same child outside. I believe it is and that it should have the right to live.
A woman should NOT have the right to terminate a life. Be it an unborn child, a born child, or a grown person. No woman should have the exclusive right to kill anyone. I don't know of any man that has the exclusive right to kill.
Did you know that there are more people wanting to adopt in our nation than there are children to adopt?
If a mother doesn't want her child, there is someone that does.
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