Posted on 11/16/2005 3:59:31 AM PST by Eepsy
"So when do you go for the abortion?'' my friend asked, her voice sympathetic.
"Wednesday,'' I replied, and then hurriedly got off the phone. I called Mike, my boyfriend, in tears, complaining about how inconsiderate people are, how no one thinks before they speak. The truth was, until I heard the word "abortion,'' it hadn't occurred to me that I was actually having one.
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Actually, it's "fornication." Promiscuity if fornication with multiple partners.
I pray that your guilt never fades and that the pain remains as sharp as can be until you repent totally and admit the murder you performed
My sister-in-law was told, during her second pregnancy, that she had a very high probability of giving birth to a Downs baby. From what she told me of that office visit, there was almost an assumption that she would choose to abort.
My niece is now twelve years old and smart as a whip. I'm glad her mother decided to laugh at the odds.
Two points. One, there really is no "my morality" and "someone else's morality"; there's only morality based on correct reasoning and false morality based on incorrect reasoning. Two, wasn't "bringing someone else's morality into the discussion" precisely what she did when she killed her child without giving the child and "his morality" any say in the matter?
All of the pro-aborts' arguments amount to special pleading -- "a woman ought to be able to kill the baby in her womb ... why ... just because, dang it!" They can construct no coherent reasoning why killing during gestation is legitimate, but killing after birth -- whether at age 5 minutes or 5 years -- isn't.
I have a nephew wioth Downs Syndrome. He is a very happy and joyful young man (he is 18). He has few language skills, and he has serious physical problems, but he loves his life.
The thought of not allowing him to live because he has Downs is monstrous.
One more thing -- because of him, the members of my family have experienced a joy they would not have known if he had not come into the world. My sister and brother-in-law, as well as their other children, have learned the joy of sacrificing self for another person.
Just to point out that, according to the website http://www.womens-health.co.uk/downs.asp, false positives on Downs Syndrome tests range from 2.7% to 7.6% depending on the original risk.
And here is a link to a Downs Syndrome Society in Cincinatti that currently has a waiting list of over a hundred pre-approved families waiting to adopt a Downs Syndrome Child:
http://www.triangledownsyndrome.org/adoption.htm
The baby would surely have had a better shot at a normal life and proper loving care, had he been unafflicted and the Mother a Down syndrome adult.
All murderers must convince themselves that dying was best for their victems.
Yes. Just don't make me look at the ovens...
Tough question, but the tough answer is no. Without consequences, people are more likely to engage in sex, especially sex outside of marriage. Paul VI predicted what would happen to society with readily available means of artificial birth control (see my post above).
You're right. Thanks.
That's why it's paragraph #17 of a very solid natural law argument.
I'll ask you the same question. What Bible verse prohibits contraception?
Which Bible verse says that only evils that are explicitly stated in the Bible are truly evil?
Regardless, the sin of Onan is clear enough. At least it was to all Christians prior to 1929.
A beautiful and perfect response!
The sin of Onan was that he disobeyed God's command to procreate if memory serves. He spilled his seed on the ground to prevent procreation. It was not the act itself that was wrong, it was the intention behind the act. Trying to build a logical bridge between this and contreceptives is akin to trying to build that famous bridge to the 21st century.
Contraceptives are not intrinsically evil. I'm not buying your argument.
Yes, in most cases. But not in every case. There are severe chromosomal defects that result - if the baby makes it to term - in a very brief, painful existence. I don't really think anyone would choose that.
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Grieving for your baby is the first, most important part of healing. Teresa Burke has done plenty of research on this. Project Rachel, Rachel's Vineyard, these programs help women grieve their babies. Teresa Burke even recommends that a woman name her baby.
Little Johnny is no doubt looking down on his mother with pity right now. God bless her and bring her healing.
But I won't say raising a DS child is harder than a mainstream kid.
When my son was small, I will concede it was slightly more difficult to take care of him than our other babies. He wore a diaper longer, needed to be carried longer, and was on the whole, more physically tiring for us than his siblings. But I still wouldn't call it difficult. And then, of course, there are the surgeries. My son, like many DS kids, had to undergo heart surgery three times. Surgery on a child is tough on any family.
However, and I say this with all sincerity - it would be easier (and more fulfilling) to have half a dozen Downs teenagers, than one average teen.
Your mother's right to not be inconvenienced supersedes your right to exist. /sarcasm
Adultery and fornication are used interchangeably in the Bible, so yes, the adultery on the "Big Ten" does include fornication.
Note the Savior did not make distinction between married and unmarried when he declared lust a form of adultery.
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