I am pro-life, but not to the point where I would let a woman with a tubal or ectopic pregnancy die. This is a completely crazy position. Ectopic pregnancies happen in the first few weeks of pregnancy in about 1% of all pregnancies. It is extremely rare for a child to be born from extopic pregnancy. Without treatment resulting in abortion, the woman may die. If folks are so extreme that they would let this happen, then the male who initiated the pregnancy should die with the woman.
We lost two Senate seats because of extreme positions on abortion. Enough said.
To save a woman’s life in the case of an ectopic pregnancy is NOT an abortion. Ethically and morally, the loss of the child is an INDIRECT result of the attempt to save the mother.
The goal is not to kill the child, but to preserve the life of the mother, and without treatment, both will most likely die.
http://www.prolifephysicians.org/rarecases.htm
I am pro-life, but...
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Either you are or you are NOT pro-life.
Neither Aiken or Murdoch talked about that. They were shot down simply because they stupidly talked about their philosophy about abortion which was easily twisted and misquoted by the hostile Democrat-Media.
Jesus said not to cast your pearls before swine--and that's what those gentlemen did.
Violent rape really does only rarely result in pregnancy--as women are fertile only 3 days a month--and a very traumatized female body in shock...isn't very amenable to conception. It was the term "legitimate rape" (distorted to be "how can ANY rape be legitimate???" question....) by which he meant violent, actual, rape--not a falsely claimed rape (which contra the feminists does, actually happen...).... did the one guy in.
Similarly the other guy spoke in terms only those of a 10th grade education and up would follow--also easily distorted and misquoted by our hostile Democrat-propaganda mills, the Media.
If abortion is wrong at all--it is because the fetus is a human being, made in the image of God. If that is NOT the case--than a fetus as no more moral significance than a tumor. But if it IS the case--that a fetus is a full human being--than all unborn babies deserve to be protected by government.
It may be considered "radical" to want to forbid abortion in the case of rape--but the circumstances of the conception do NOT make those fetuses illegitimate persons... To make exceptions at all according to circumstances (except in the case of the life of the mother) is to say some persons are "more equal than others," a morally indefensibly position. Life of the mother instances too, are so rare as to be statistically insignificant too.
The best policy for pro-life politicians is just to shut up about it--and refuse to explain in detail one's position:
"I'm a Christian who believes in the sanctity of human life." PERIOD.
One must resist the lure of the traps of the Media b*stards.