I understand that you consider it murder.  What I don't understand is where you get that from.  \n\nDoes it say in the Bible that God puts a soul into the body of a baby before it is born?  \n\nDoes it say that intentionally ending a pregnancy is murder?\n\nAnd if it doesn't, then how did you come to the conclusion that it is murder? \n\nNo disrespect intended, just curiosity.
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yeah its bad to abort a foetus but its not bad to ciritsise others and make quick judgmenents based on sterotypes?? ive seen it all happen before because im gay, and find i am quickly judged. I love Jesus, and I know he loves me for who I am. Im not a bad person, I take care of my disabled brother and am working in the commmunity.\n\nIm not in support of abortion, id personaly rather adoption. but if its in the first trimester (or a RAPE victim!!!!) i can agree to some extent. each case is different cant be all catagorised in the one.
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First of all, i don't think anyone is pro-abortion...they are prochoice, as in its for you to say one way or the other.  \nMe personally, i believe it is murder, but there are such things as justifiable homicide.  I agree with you that most of the time women have abortions for less than good reasons....but who decides whats justifiable?  you? me? the govt?  It has to be each woman that decides for herself; she is the one that has to live with the decision and face whatever God she believes in.  What may seem like an inconvenience to you, could be lifealtering for her.  the best that can be done, is for the gov't to make sure the procedure is available and safe...after that the rest is up to the woman.\nbut it is murder, like killing in war is murder, yet many people don't think soldiers are going to hell for killing in war.  \nnote that abortions have been going on since the beginning of time, whether legal or not.  most of the time when there is not a doctor available to perform the procedure, both the fetus and the woman die.  Now if its senseless to lose the fetus, wouldn't it be doubly so to lose both?  just because its illegal, doesn't mean its not going to happen.  \nwhile i do believe that its a woman's choice, i also believe that its murder, and i also believe that if i were in those shoes, i wouldn't be able to make the choice to have an abortion without seriously extenuating circumstances, like my death, a brutal rape (which shouldn't result in pregnancy very often anymore due to the morning after pill) or some very serious disease the child has.
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I think that most people have a deep ingrained belief that a developing human embryo or fetus doesn't have the same moral status as a baby or child.  I think many of our customs reflect this belief.  Without trying to get all argumentative about it let me give some examples of what I mean by these customs, and many of them are shared by people who are "pro life."\n\n-We don't perform funerals for embryo's or fetuses.\n-We don't report miscarriages to the police&#92;coronor.\n-We don't tell people that we had four children who died if we had four misscarriages.\n-Most celebrations of pregnancy are confined to the later months and are focused on the event of birth.\n-We don't celebrate the anniversary or commemorate the date or month of conception.\n-When an older woman tries to get pregnant and has lots of misscarriages, we generally don't condemn her as a murder or see her as doing anything particularly immoral.\n-If someone has chosen a name for their child and they have a misscarriage, then they don't normally have a probelm naming their next child the same name, although if the child was actually born most people would never, never do this.\n\nI think that these things are indications of some sort of ingrained belief that there is a different moral standing for a fetus and embryo than a child who has already been born.  And even though it's difficult to accept this kind of argument, I think that it is a gradual thing, so that the closer the fetus&#92;baby comes to being born the more people think it's a tragedy when it dies.  I think this is the reason that many pro-choice people feel content to leave it up to the pregnant woman herself to decide what to do when she is pregnant, rather than treat her as a criminal if she is seeking abortion.\n\nMy view:  I have no horse in this race, no opinion eather way on the ultimate legality of abortion.  I think that someday there will be no abortions and we will think very harshly of prior generations who did it, but I also think that someday we will feel the same way about people who eat meat.\n\nAnyway since you are trying to understand the pro-choice view on this I hope this helps you.
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To all those saying that abortion is killing an innocent child and the death penalty is killing a murderer, making it justified. \n\nAbortion is not killing a reasoning human being with cognitive skills. Yes, it can potentially become one, however, by using that argument, one can say that by not having sex with your spouse at this very moment, you are wasting innocent eggs and sperm, thus killing potential life. The line can be drawn anywhere. The bottom line is, until the society can provide a safe and harmonious upbringing and support for the potential child, abortion is by all means justified. It is quite easy to be a male in a nice little house with a backyard and a church next door and say that abortion is wrong. But you see, not everyone is in that comfortable position. \n\nAs for the death penalty, haven't I heard some Christian people speak of this "thou shall not kill" deal every now and then? So it is alright to take life as a form of punishment? Revenge, is that what we've scooped down to? As Mr Gandhi put it so eloquently, "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind". Not even speaking of the other side of the death penalty, i.e. the victims. At least one person a year is wrongly executed in the United States. At least one. Every year. That's some 10 people's lives you destroy there every year. Think about it. \n\n\n\n\n\nEdit, as a response to comments posted below: \n\nSee, but that's where we differ. I don't see abortion as equal to murder. I just don't, because in my opinion, it's not killing. See my argument above in the second paragraph. You just can't draw a line. Second of all, so if abortion is to be illegal, are YOU willing to take care of the child? Apparently you are. An ideal world is one thing, I too wish there was no need for abortion, but the real world is something different. Let's abolish the REASON for abortion, not abortion itself. \n\nBy the way, in my arguments, I am speaking about abortion where the mother's health is not endangered. If it is, then abortion is justified even in the ideal world. \n\nAs for the death penalty, I am sticking to my argument. The ones that kill for killing are just as bad as the killers. If it is right to murder for murder, then, basically, anyone can murder you, as you support the death penalty, making you co-responsible for a couple of deaths, a lot of them innocents. And then, anyone can murder your murderer. And so on... Killing as a form of punishment is quite the barbaric practice that has no place in the modern world. And if you look at the list of countries that still implement the death penalty, you'll see that I'm quite right on that point.
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I am Christian and i agree 100%.I will pray about it also because abortion is the same as murder but for some reason people think if you kill a baby it is okay but if you kill an adult it is bad   God bless you!\nWell Killing a baby is the same a killing an adult.Hello!? They are both humans and God made them both so stop killing people!!
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If you have a strong stomach, this website will help you gathering facts.  There is a video that automatically pops up. Close it if you don't want to watch it...it is gruesome.\n\nhttp://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-case.html\n\nAbortion in not mentioned in the Bible.  Abortion is a recent proceedure that was not around in the days the bible was written.\n\nBut, God does care for the unborn\nExodus 21:22-25 (NIV)  \n    "If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. [23] But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, [24] eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, [25] burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.\n\nGod does care if we kill our children... \n\nLeviticus 18:21 (NIV)  (Child sacrifice)\n    " 'Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord. \n\nLeviticus 20:3-4 (NIV)  \n    I will set my face against that man and I will cut him off from his people; for by giving his children to Molech, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name. [4] If the people of the community close their eyes when that man gives one of his children to Molech and they fail to put him to death,\n\nPsalm 139:13-16 (NKJV)  \nFor You formed my inward parts;\nYou covered me in my mother's womb. \n14I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;\nMarvelous are Your works,\nAnd that my soul knows very well. \n15My frame was not hidden from You,\nWhen I was made in secret,\nAnd skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. \n16Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.\nAnd in Your book they all were written,\nThe days fashioned for me,\nWhen as yet there were none of them.
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Nobody is born sinful.  How in the world is a tiny little newborn a sinner?  They have committed no crime and do not have any sense of the word at all.  All a newborn knows is that it needs food a lot, it needs diapers, and it needs its parents to love it.  It needs to see its mother's face and feel comfort at her breast.  Nothing sinful about that.  The bible was messed up by the Romans and changed.  The original bible has nothing of the sort in it, and eve is not the cause of all pain either.  A person is not guilty of another person's crime, and that includes eve.  In Islam, BOTH adam and eve were at fault.  Blame is not placed specifically.  And you are told that your own actions determine whether or not you go to heaven or hell.
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Although I am a Christian and truly believe that at the moment of conception a human being is created, I really struggle with this issue. So, after years of fierce internal struggles, here's what I believe.\n\nAbortion, no matter what the reason, ends a life. But I do not feel that you can legislate whether or not abortion should be legal. The decision to abort or not to abort is a moral issue, a decision that rests on the shoulders of the woman carrying the child. The consequences--if the woman chooses to abort--are between the woman and God. \n\nWhat needs to happen in America and around the world for that matter, is a massive effort to educate people with viable information that will prevent unwanted pregnancies. Prevention is our only hope.
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But the base idea is still there that life has intrinsic value. Also, conside the passage in Hosea that speaks of abortion as a punishment for sin (Hosea 9:14) and the passage that shows God's disgust at the Ammorite practice of killing babies in the womb (Amos 1:13).\n\nGod makes it clear that life begins in the womb, that we are made in the image of God, and that human life is more valuable than animal life. Put all those together and you can see that God has a very negative view of abortion.
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Yes I would say it is murder. There are people willing to adopt so why kill when you can give others the gift of life. Youth and immaturity can sometimes give us justifications instead of intellectually sound reasoning. Most will agree, unless you were raped or forcibly made pregnant, the life given to you is divine and has a purpose aside from your own. Joseph was probably ill at ease that his supposed virgin wife was made pregnant buy another father before they were even married. I’m so glad he wasn’t about abortion.
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Now you are free to live and full and happy unimpaired life. \n\nEnjoy it my friend.\n\nAll a person has to do is look at a child and you can blatantly see right there in front of you that the child is innocent. Right from their little toes to the tips of their hair. Seriously...Original sin?\n\nYou really think God (if he exists) would be that mean as to start us off in life with a ticket to hell that can only be reversed by baptism...So what happens to all the babies who die in childbirth, or coat death before they can be baptized...Are they burning in hell?\n\nCause if they are, then that just furthers my conviction that if there is a God, he's a megalomaniac bully with a *cough* 'God-complex'...Yes I did just pull that pun, see me I'm funny...right?
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Go, mom.\n\nOkay, I will not dip too deep into this because this subject is, well, one I am passionate about.\n\nMurder is murder. I don't care if the government say that you can kill a baby, that you have the right; you don't. Women have a right to THEIR bodies, yes, but after a baby is concieved, it is a seperate entity, a seperate person;human being. It is connect to, BUT no longer HER body.  Okay, What happens when you kill an adult, or, you know, let's say six of them? You will most likely get the death penalty. Why? Because you have no right, or 'decision' to make about someone else's body or life. Oh, and you want to know how law-proven guilty criminals that get death row die?...a lot more peacefully and a lot less gruesome and more human than an innocent baby that is aborted dies.\n\nI'm not an activist, but I'm sick of it. I'm sick of people supporting murder. People that cannot live up to their responsibilities of having sex, should NOT have it. I hear you on the birth control method. My mother had always told me about a roommate she used to have in college. She had several abortions, and used it as birth control. Well God (or nature, whatever you believe, or don't believe) Stepped in, and when she settled down from the college years, and got married, she was not able to have children anymore. It is wrong. If you cannot live up to your responsibilities, or not be safe and responsible, or are promiscuous it's not the baby's fault. Why should the baby have to die for your sins, your mistakes. It's believed that everyone is born with sin, but not even giving them a chance to have a life of their own is selfish. You are taking a life, and that is not right, or your place to decide.\n\nI have been through the issue with a rape. If I hadn't of had a miscarriage, I would have given the poor thing up for adoption, at least. And I was 15 at this time, a very scared, abused girl, but...killing it never once crossed my mind; I do not condone that at ALL.... and that experience messed me up very badly, to this day.  That is a terrible spot to be in, you didn't ask for it, it's not your fault, but it's not the baby's either. I mean, I won't lie, I felt terrible for what had happened (worthlessness, guilt, filth, self-pity, all the emotional baggage that came with it) but I would have felt so much more if I would have taken that life away, for nothing more than my selfishness.\n\nThere are plenty of barren, sterile couples, or just loving couples that would LOVE to have a baby, but cannot conieve that would take unwanted babies'. If it is women's right to kill their children, then why do people go to jail for it after they are outside of their womb? Hmm, it's the SAME THING. If the government says that is is their RIGHT to murder that is fu cked. What about that child's RIGHT to live, to have a life, even if it is sent to a different family. People are irresponsible and selfish. fu ck them.\n\nOh, and a smaller dip into the  the whole "they they're not babies until.. blah, blah." ,It still is a human being, no matter how small. It takes shape after a while, fingers, toes, fingernails form early on....etc. They develop faster than lawmakers gave credit... If a person other than the mother assaults a mother, and the baby dies, it is murder, if the mother decides to kill it, it's her right?\n\nThat's not right.\n\nEither be responsible, live up to your responsibilities, give it up, or just be humane.\n\n\nOOOH, \n\nAnd I can't go on anymore. I tried to sum it up for you. I can't go futher, or I will rewrite it in more detail and right a freaking book, right here and now...
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Here are my thoughts. Abortion is a great thing. There are a lot of young people who get pregnant (for whatever reason) and they should not have a baby. They are either too young, or don't have the money, or don't the the stability to be a good parent for tehir would-be-child. It would be better off for the mother to have an abortion in order to save her from ruining her life than it would for her to have the child and ruin both lives? I do not believe it is murder. When you become pregnant you have a fetus inside you which a lump of cells that are growing. That is why it is called a fetus and not a baby. \n\nI posted a question you might be interested in...http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ak5wtwSGer6KbOR7E5Azqsrsy6IX?qid=20061105134759AAqPvKb
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The answer you are looking for is evident by the way you posed the question.  It seems you want people to say that they would kill their own child.\n\nBUT, for me and my family, it is not a matter of the physical pain we may experience in this life.  It is a matter of what God wants.  He created us, and He could heal us, but even if He doesn't we will continue to praise His name.
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How do you justify spiritually the killing of another human being, when you are the President of a country? It it the fastest draw theory? Is it God told you it is OK? Is it because when God said, "Thou shat not kill", He was talking to someone else other then you?
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I at one time thought as you do. I now see abortion for what it is MURDER. Religion aside almost everyone agrees murder is wrong. Do you honestly believe for one minute that in our infinite stupidity we as the human race will not find someway to destroy our silly selves
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I am a Christian. I think abortion is completely and totally wrong. Its the same as murder. Once a baby is concieved, it is a human being, not just tissue. I also will tell you and every one else out tere, after a girl has had an abortion, she will most likey regret it the rest of her life, because that was a life. That baby could have become a president or someone who made a big difference in the world. Hope this helps out.   JesusSaves\nDo the same for the baby