Anguille
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- Mar 8, 2008
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This is much more complicated discussion than most any of us are willing to delve, in my personal opinion.
Let me start with saying that many people have their beliefs that abortion is wrong due to their religious beliefs or even religious upbringings, where "thou shall not kill" is taken to heart....and even some non religious people believe that killing the unborn is wrong just because it is a human being... that is being snuffed out before they have the chance to be born.
Let's face it, please let's face this head on and say the truth of what is: It is the termination of pregnancy, and pregnancy is the nuturing period for an offspring child to be, before it is born.
The Bible describes life in the beginning in Genesis 2, I believe, that Adam's life began with his first BREATH....God Breathed life in to him.....he was FORMED already by God, but breathing through his nostril gave him LIFE.
Think about this for a minute or two, for those Judeo/Christians among us...
I was floored when I read this passage, when searching for what the Bible has to say about abortion, even though it is not mentioned once directly in the Bible...floored because abortion is not listed soo I thought it would be good to try to find out when human life begins...thinking maybe this would give me some answers regarding abortion in the Bible.
It made me think that there was a distinction between the born and unborn...born meaning they took their first breath. And yes this is even our definition in today's times...if the baby is born and has taken his first breath and then dies, the baby is issued a birth certificate and then a death certificate.
If a baby is born in our society that never takes its first breath, it is still born....and is not issued a birth or death certificate I don't believe?
Then there is another passage in Exodus, where it speaks of a woman that was with child, that got pushed by a man in a fight with another man, which forced her "fruit" to depart, (a miscarriage)....but did not cause any harm to her....her husband could bring the man that caused this harm to judges and demand what restitution he deemed fair, (for the loss of his unborn child).
Now this to me means that the unborn child DEFINATELY is NOT just a clump of cells that is a parasite in the mother....he got restitution for his unborn child who was born dead....that departed from his wife due to this man knocking in to her.
But THEN the passage goes in to, the BUTS....
but, if later... this woman becomes sick or dies from the incident then the proper judgement is, An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth....a life, for a life.
So if this woman went on to die because of this incident, then this man that caused this would be put to death, capital punishment....a life for a life.
So what does all this mean?
It means that the unborn child has value, but the born has more value....is "worth" more.....Doesn't it?
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Okay, taking all of this stuff in to consideration....
TO ME, there is a possibility that the unborn child does not have the same value as the born child, but does indeed have value.
This still makes abortion wrong in my own personal opinion....it is taking away a chance for this human being to be BORN....a termination of the pregnancy TOP, ......terminated.....
you can't terminate and kill something that isn't already alive....this is a fact.
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What I can't do, is insist that EVERYONE should think the same way as me...
people do their own soul searching on what is right or wrong, they also have freewill that gives them the chance to choose.
What I do know is that forgiveness is what is suppose to be offered to these women that have gone through an abortion, and love and kindness and compassion....through this, they will be won over, and they can heal.
care
Great post!! Informative and thoughtful!! I made me think about aspects of the abortion debate I hadn't considered.