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To: syriacus
It is difficult for me to determine what you are asking. Maybe I can answer it this way:

It would be foolish to abort unto intentional death any fetus that could be delivered and survive (unless the life of the mother was somehow put a great risk by the attempted delivery)

I believe that it would be so foolish, that I would vote to make such abortions illegal.

164 posted on 12/06/2001 2:39:30 PM PST by pcl
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To: pcl
It would be foolish to abort unto intentional death any fetus that could be delivered and survive (unless the life of the mother was somehow put a great risk by the attempted delivery). I believe that it would be so foolish, that I would vote to make such abortions illegal.

Would you say your religious beliefs "caused" your "abortion belief" that a viable fetus should not be aborted except to save the mother? Or is this a decision you arrived at through non-religious reasoning?

I hate hearing the pro-choicers lying when they insist that opposition to abortion is based on religious beliefs. To me, they have it all backwards. To me, the closer a religion comes to opposing abortion the closer it is to facing reality. I don't oppose abortion because a religion tells me I should, but I may (eventually) chose a church partly because I think it is correct in defending the basic right of humans to live.

My religious beliefs (which have changed back and forth through the years) don't determine my continuously anti-abortion beliefs. I simply believe that a human being exists from the moment he or she has enough DNA together to be considered a human.

If a scientist examined the DNA of the embryo/fetus and found that the "developing being" had the DNA of an individual human, that means there is an individual human. It's less intelligent than us and smaller than us and weaker than us. But, if smallness, weakness and mental slowness don't condemn to death those humans who are already born, I don't think those qualities should condemn a fetus or embryo to death.

I only believe in killing for self-defense or defense of others. (You could say that killing a defenseless tiny human does not fit the 'sliding scale' of an eye for an eye.)

166 posted on 12/06/2001 4:42:32 PM PST by syriacus
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