[ClearCase_guy]

1) The Bible is full of war. God is not necessarily against war.
2) The Ten Commandments say that we should not commit murder. Killing the enemy in war is not "murder" and is not proscribed (see #1)
3) The unborn child is alive, human, and viable in the environment in which it is meant to exist. It is an innocent human. To kill that child is murder. This is proscribed (see #1)
4) Freedom is important. My freedom to swing my arm, stops at your nose. Just so, a pregnant woman should be free -- but not to the point of killing a child.

[Semper]

The Bible is full of war. God is not necessarily against war.

Interesting reasoning. The Bible is full of perversions. Is God not necessarily against perversions?

The Ten Commandments say that we should not commit murder. Killing the enemy in war is not "murder" and is not proscribed (see #1)

What about the millions of innocent civilians who have been killed (by us) in the fire bombings and nuclear bombings of WWII or the napalm bombs and arch lights of Vietnam or the artillery and tank fire of all recent wars? And now we have Marines being prosecuted for "murdering" innocent civilians in Iraq. However you want to parse it, there is ending of lives - lives of those already living in this world, with awareness and relationships and ongoing activities. How is a potential human, almost completely unaware of its environment or existence, not yet functioning in this world, more important than those? Why not work on eliminating the killing related to war before getting all wound up in the family affairs of people and circumstances we know little or nothing about?