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endless_night -> RE: Abortion-Pro life or Pro-Choice? (6/17/2008 12:52:47 PM)
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Fallenstar, I honestly believe your first mistake is saying "it's what I believe is right." I don't know if you are a Christian or not but for the Christian, what we believe is right is secondary to what God says is right. For what is right and wrong is determined by God. When we say something is right and wrong, then it usually means it's our opinion.
To claim that a woman who is under distress (or have some sort of mental illness) should not have a child is ludicrous. If that person should not have a child, than that person would not be able to get pregnant. It is the way she handles the situation and how others support her that will either drive her even more into a depressed state or help her out of it. We should not murder a precious child simply because we create situations in our heads that seems impossible to survive.
As for teenagers deserving a second chance because they made a dumb mistake (lets not confuse what is sin and what is a mistake), who said that having a child is NOT a second chance. If you haven't notice, that teenager is already involved in doing grown-up things, therefore they got a grown-up consequence. But a child will not stop a teenager from getting into college, maybe that teenager will not go into college right away, maybe it will be delayed for a little while or their careers might not come as fast as they want but a child will not stop that. A negative attitude and self-consciousness will. As for their bodies not able to handle it, that's not true. There might be some preventative measures that needs to take place, but their body is built to handle it. Oh and remember this, the sin was not the pregnancy, it was the sex. And if this teenager does not have a faith in God to understand that having sex before marriage is sin, then by them using a condom, the pill, or whatever else that prevents them from getting pregnant, does not show case that they have learned from their mistakes.
As for the rape victim getting pregnant, most of those cases are rare, because being under severe distress usually hinders one from getting pregnant. But if that person does get pregnant, why would it be wrong for that person to follow through with the pregnancy. That child does not deserver murder simply because of what the Father do. The sins of the father should not be on the child. Before you go all up in arms and say I don't know what I am talking about, I was raped, and no I did not get pregnant, but the only person I ever blamed the rape on was the rapist and I guarantee you that if I did get pregnant, there is no way I could murder the child because I then was no better than the rapist. This of it this way: The guy raped me; and I had an abortion (justifying to myself that it is not fair that a life was born out of such an ugly union), how am I any better? Is it because society said it was okay does God say it was okay?
I completely understand that you feel that abortion should be available in the matters of these three cases for those who want it, but since when was it ever okay to murder simply because of the situations we find ourselves in? God will forgive us for our sins and get us through this, we have to hold onto that truth otherwise, we can find ourselves justifying pretty much anything. If we can justify murder, there is not telling what else we will allow ourselves to justify.
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