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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Abortion |
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chris |
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Oct 19, 06 - 11:55 AM |
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chieferpage@yahoo.com |
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I love these kind of discussions. I whole heartedly disagree. Making abortion illegal would require the government to prosecute those who have abortions. Therefore the government will be forcing a woman, under penalty of law, to carry a pregnancy to term. If illegal, that act of abortion would be against the law not the act of becoming pregnant irresponsibly. Your reasoning seems to indicate that by making abortion illegal; the government will punish women who make poor choices by making them carry a pregnancy to term. So here again, we have come full circle to reconciling that; by making abortion illegal we would effectively be giving government the authority to force women give birth.
I will conceed your point that most people who believe that life begins at conception happen to be religious. Of course, there is a reason for that. For those people, I think there is a discrepency in reconciling the science of the issue with the religious ideology of the issue. I don't think those folks base their religious beliefs on scientific facts or theories for that matter. It is the other way around. In this particular case I think it is incontrovertible that the religious beliefs of those opposed to abortion dictate to them that life begins at conception. To them, the science of the issue is based on their religious ideology. I don't agree with that approach, but I fully realize that I could be dead wrong. Obviously there is a scientific component to this issue. Unfortunately that is not where the battle lines have been drawn. They have been drawn from a religious perspective from those who oppose abortion. The argument should be scientific and philosophical, along with how much control the government should have interferring with privacy and personal medical decisions. But alas, the most vocal opponents happen to be religious leaders, Falwell, Dobson, Robertson, and the Pope to name a few. Think about it. It's a religious issue all the way. |
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