Why do people think it's okay to kill unborn babies, but not okay to kill trees?
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I have two awnsers (opinions).\n\n1. Moral values are all messed up. There is not a clear understand of what is really worth in the world. A tree is improtant... very important, but there is no tree inthe world that have more value than a single human life. At the end we are responsible for nature and at the same time nature is ther to serve us. Is a simbiotic relationship. We should protect life and the most important kind of life is the huaman life.\n\n2. Convenience, what is the commitment of saving a tree? And that is the commitment of saving a life of an unwanted child?  People say they can do what ever they want with their bodies ... mmhm supose thats right... What a pregnant woman carries is a totally different human life, an other person, hence and the only think this person wants to do is live, grow, develop in to an independient human been, but this armless, small, and gragile person seems to have their right to do with their bodies what ever they want violated. So.. save a tree?... sure, why not... Save yours baby life? Comit to have a pregnancy and be responsible for a human life?... Well for much people, you know what their awnser is.\n\nSaludos!
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I find that abortion tends to be more of a "situational ethic".  People decide the question based on personal convenience, their own questionable moral standards, and political persuasion than on the merits of the actual problem.\nThe person who can make the decision, decides that their own lives would be compromised in some fashion, and in a unilateral decision, that the other party involved in it cannot change..(The baby) ends up the victim of their selfishness.\nOf course there are always the difficult cases of rape, or abuse, that are brought up...and while these are tragic...there ends up two victims.  The baby who is terminated for having the temerity to show up, and the mother who is traumatized.  \nWhile the latter are unfortunate, and decisions regarding them are difficult at best...the former is simply a decision that should have been made, prior to a person deciding the fate of an innocent life.  \nWe have made life cheap.  It's easy to erase mistakes in our judgement, and we are validated in this by the erroneous attitudes of others.
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its not just wrong to shoot little girsl.\nits wrong to shoot and kill PEOPLE.\n\nWe kill people over the stupidest things these days.\n\nI would say we are acting like animals, but that would discrace an animal considering that they do not kill off there own species for sheer pleasure or power.\nHumans are an abomination to themselves.\n\nWe are going to make ourselves extinct sooner or later
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I do provide and improve alternatives. I'm a social worker that helps pregnant women for this reason.\n\nBut is killing a baby acceptable because of all your reasons? Expensive adoption? The birthmother doesn't pay, and there's a 10 million couple wait for an expensive adoption.\n\nFoster system? No need. Infants are easily adoptable, and apparantly these couples on the waiting list can endure the expenses. \n\nRegardless if your  examples were real or not, none of your reasons justify killing innocent unborn people.  \n\nPeriod.
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That is a very interesting argument. Society has ways to rationalize what they are doing when what they are doing is wrong. They use words like "fetus" and "cells" to make themselves feel better about it. \n\nThere IS quite a waiting list for adoption of infants of any color. That is why many go out of the country for it. But to rationalize abortion to say it is better than the child growing up poor is just sick. \n\nWe can't eliminate humans that we think will be a burden or unconvenient. "Fetuses" are not just like ants in your cupboard or termites eating up your house. They are human. \n\nOne more point: a newborn infant can't survive on it's own either.
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Just what you do with them ? I agree , a killing is a killing and I think it started with an eye for a eye or revenge . \nAs it says in the Bible , " Vengeance is mine , " saith the Lord and I don't seem to remember him saying , that it's alright to kill someone that hurts you . \nAm I right or wrong , just asking ? If your against killing baby's then why not against all killings \n But do we really help society , by killing one another .?\n Does it really deter  murderers , doesn't seem to , in the studies I've seen .
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It's not.  Abortion is not okay.  The only time abortion is acceptable is in the case of rape, because no kid wants to grow up to find out they were the product of rape.  I despise this culture of checking if your kid has Down's syndrome and such like prior to birth, as people react by aborting the foetuses.  How dare we play God just because someone is not conventionally perfect?  Everyone has value.\n\nNo, abortion is wrong too.  It is murder.  It is the decision to terminate another life, and the other person is entirely powerless to resist.
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You have logic in your argument, and it makes complete sense.  People just want a reason to justify not having to deal with a baby, because they wanted to have sex more.  People need to speak up for, and fight for those that cannot fight for their own lives.  Unborn humans, which if left alone, will grow to become like you and I, did not ask to be made or born, but have the right to life like you and I.  I will always fight for them, and speak up.  There are little souls in there, and people don't realize how totally serious it is to stop a beating heart.
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Killing other people is wrong. Government should set an example in this matter. Abortion is also worth of cautious judgment, but how to add to peoples`s responsibility? Remember that making mistakes, even the gravest ones, is only human but forgiving is divine.
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I think that it is an ethical issue. How can we support the murder of our own young? Why is it so hard for people to take responsibility for themselves and know that one of the natural outcomes of sex can be pregnancy. I wish that people who didn't want to have kids would either use birth control correctly and consistantly, or quit having sex.
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I think it is very wrong to kill an unborn child.
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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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They believe the life begins at conception and no reason is good enough to murder a child. I always found it funny that those same conservative people are the same ones who are all for the death penalty. It OK to murder a grown person if they are found guilty in the court of law weather they are truly guilty or not but it is not OK to destroy a cluster of cells the will eventually turn into a human.
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Nothing is right when it is used to kill.It is not right to kill in order to spread democracy.It is not right to kill because of a political view.It is not right to kill for a belief.\n\nUnfortunately, many don't care what is right and what is wrong.
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I think it is such a sensitive subject because babies are involved.  Children are something worth fighting for and I think that is where poeple become passionate.  I agree, we are all human and make mistakes.  I am against abortion completely, but God tells us to hate the sin, not the sinner.  Abortion is sad, and I would like to do away with it.  With that said, I think it is wrong to do just as much harm in attacking the people invloved.  I think this is a subject that is sensitive to not just Christians, but all people.  I think it is crazy to bomb an abortion clinic becuase you think abortion is wrong.  \nI have known people in my personal life that have had abortions, and while I do not agree with their actions, I would never try to judge them.  I believe that if I stand up for what I believe and try to get abortion taken out in a Godly way, God will reward that and do his work.  I think people in their attempt to fight for Gods will, bless their hearts, end up going to far and sometimes forget why and who they are fighting for.  \nOnce again, we are all human and fall short.
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Seems to me that Christians should actively campaigning AGAINST the immorality that is the slaughter of the unborn. Privacy has nothing to do with this, and it bothers me that so many so-called "Christians" can support something that is both illegal and immoral (Contrary to popular belief, Abortion is not now nor has it ever been legal as it did not pass through either the people or the legislature), and to me, apathy makes one as guilty as campaigning FOR it.
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I don't think it is right the ends someone's life before it's thier time. Life should be respected at all levels. Everyone should respect life from the unborn to natural death. Abortion is wrong and so it the Death Penality.