Is it hypocritical to be pro-life considering you are already safe?
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LOL!!! A great play on words.WTG!\n\nEveryone is wearing their heart on their sleeve. Chill out everyone , it is "Jokes and Riddles". If you want serious chatting go somewhere else. GEEZ!!!
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No one can be in favour of abortion and be simultaneously a Catholic. It's one or the other. You might continue attending Mass and whatever else but your pro-choice belief is totally at odds with the faith of the Church and automatically excludes you from being in full communion with Christ and His Church.
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Good question mate!\nI... don't know if I would, honestly. I'm not religious but I am spiritual, and if I lost that part of my life... It sounds terrible but it depends on who the person was. I'd save anyone I knew in a shot, but a stranger? \nFeel guilty saying this so I'm gonna stop!\nOne. x\n- ACTUALLY, the main part of my religion is morals and the rest is science and optimism, so I would have to say yes. It would be the right thing to do, and since I claim to care about morals I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't denounce my beliefs for them.
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How common this fallacy is. "I think ......" Then, "Are there Christian values....??? " (Implicit assumption: what I think = christian values). Ah, the arrogance of thinking that your opinion represents semi-universal truths. I am also PRO-life in that I respect it greatly, and do not take abortions lightly, but don't be dictating your belief to me. I am not gay, but see no harm in gay relationships, and in fact I believe tolerance would be good for society. I can't imagine Jesus tying homosexuals to a wire fence and leaving them to die, nor even being concerned if two swore undying allegiance to each other.It doesn't harm me, nor anyone else. What's your hangup. That the word "marriage" has been co-opted? Then use another word.
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I think there is a lot of political expediency when it comes to abortion from both the "Pro-life" and "Pro-choice" camps.\n\nYou already mentioned the inconsistencies of the Pro-life politicians, but isn't it equally crap that you get Pro-choice politicians who say that they are personally opposed to abortion, but think it should remain "safe, legal, and rare" ? If someone believes it's wrong to get an abortion, the only thing that could make it wrong, is that it is taking a life. And if it is takng a life, then shouldn't it be outlawed ?\n\nSo I think there are many inconsistencies one could find in everyone's arguments.\n\nI myself am opposed to abortion, but am pragmatic. Less is better than more, but none would be optimum. I doubt the American public would ever support a ban on all abortions. The rape, incest, endangered mother's life, deformed baby argument as being the only exceptions I can live with because the vast majority of abortions are simply "late" birth control.
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How about just "Hypocrites" for both? The "pro-life" people think life is sacred, and abortion should be banned, but then they turn around and sentence people to die for heinous crimes. But then your "pro-choice" people think it is OK for a woman to kill an unborn child, but don't you dare kill someone who raped and killed an 8-year girl.\n\nBoth sides make no sense to me at all.
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Personally, I believe abortion to be wrong. I will say that to anyone. Most people don't have a problem with getting someone to at least stop and think before attaining an abortion. You always make a better decision when you think about all available options. BTW, I do help feed the hungry.
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Hey good question.\nI myself am a Wisconsinite.\nI'd vote anti-death penalty, but pro-choice.\nNow listen before you call me a baby killing hipocrite.\n\nI don't support abortion, or the promiscuisous sexuality that causes unwanted children. I suggest counciling and deep consideration before having an abortion because it is indeed a child. However, in the end it is a woman's right to choose.
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There was a time when I was pro choice.  I gave my niece money for an abortion and, to this day, I cannot forgive myself.  I really thought that I was a liberal with regard to abortion until I became a part of it.  I hope that I can be forgiven for what I have done.
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My answer is no although I know there are many people out there who would disagree with me. The whole thing about choice is a bunch of crap. I mean, it's just saying that you are putting YOUR wants ahead of anything else. It was your CHOICE to have sex, therefore, it's your CHOICE to have a baby because you know that that is what sex could produce. I believe that no matter what you want to call the thing in your uterus (zygote, egg, whatever) it is still a human child. It has a right to live.
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There are a few other things that are hypocritical about abortion.  \n\nIf you have a tooth pulled, you have to get informed consent.  Little or none is needed to get an abortion.\n\nWe are not told how many women die from legal abortions but it is far more then most realize.  Often the real cause of death is covered up.\n\nSomeone dies in every abortion.  Often they are unborn women.  What about their rights in what should be the safest place for them...their mothers womb.\n\nThey are not informed on the possible and probably long term effects of abortion.  I have worked with dozens of women who have regretted having an abortion years after the fact.  \n\nThey often accuse men of demanding a baby be aborted simply to avoid paying for it but these same people scream bloody murder if the father tries to prevent his child from being murdered.
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Only in cases of danger or possible death to the mother, epecially if she has a family and other children to care for. Anytime it is used as a form of birth control than it is definatly murder.\nGood Question I'm sure you're going to get some really wacked questions. There are alot of people who just don't get it. The way you pose the question will hopefully make them think about it.\n\nI've said in the past that I'm pro-choice. You have so many choices out there that if you don't want to have a baby use them, condoms, IUD's, the patch, the shot, the pill, foams, creams, the morning after pill. My heck grow up and be responsible for your actions. But... that's just my opinion.
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neither are considered ethical. As long as you are preventing a birth from happening weither it is through a tubal legation, abortion, and any from of birth control it is not ethical.
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don't listen to the pro-lifer propaganda. yes it is perfectly safe.  in fact abortion is safer than pregnancy and child birth. statistically speaking more women die giving birth than they do from abortions.  so say of 100,000 women giving birth and 100,000 women having abortions more in the giving birth group will die than the abortion group when they are first trimester abortions.  just wanted to put that fact out there.  abortions this early are easily done.  you just need to find a good clean safe abortion provider.  you can contact a local planned parenthood for information.  you can find a local planned parenthood at www.plannedparenthood.com. having an abortion does not make you a bad person or an immoral person. ignore these people.  they are not you, they are not going through what you are going through. just make sure it is the right choice for you.  explore your options.  planned parenthood can either help you discuss your options or recommend some one you can speak to if that's something you need.   but yes at 2 1/2 months it is safe, but don't wait to much longer.
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Yes, I feel it is perfectly ethical. You are desposing of a parasite that can't survive outside the womb. Without an abortion, it is adding another unwanted child to this already overpopulated world.
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You raise a perfectly valid point, and one with which I happen to agree. That's why I tend to avoid answering abortion questions. When I do weigh in, however, it is always on the side of choice, simply because the alternative contradicts my fundamental philosophy regarding the rights of the individual in society. It makes not one iota of difference what I personally think of abortion, unless I am directly involved in some way (i.e., I'm the potential father). \n\nMore to the point, however, I don't believe this issue is ANYONE else's business but those parties directly involved. In other words, it NEVER should have become a political or moral issue in the first place. It is an entirely personal and (very) private issue. So, when male politicians and religious leaders jump in with both feet, that's when I get really angry. It could not be any LESS their business, and no amount of sanctimonious moralizing is ever going to change that fact.\n\nOne final point. I think every abortion is a tragedy, but not for the reasons the pro-life zealots say it is. The tragedy is that a young woman is going through personal hell and is making a choice that may well haunt her for the rest of her life. She may be having the abortion for any number of reasons (rape, incest, health dangers, personal choice, whatever) and she will doubtless suffer for whatever decision she makes. That sad fate is plenty bad enough without having perfect bloody strangers blundering in to voice their disapproval on top of all else. \n\nThe bottom line is that this is rightly her decision to make in the end. Sure, if there is a father present who actually wants this child, he should have a say in the outcome. And doctors clearly have some role to play here, too. But how did such a deeply painful and personal choice ever become fodder for hypocritical politicians and pious religious leaders (whose primary responsibility is to preach tolerance, surely)? It is madness, pure madness...
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This whole "That's your belief and that's fine but you have no right to force your beliefs on someone else" is such a crock.  \n\nIt's as if we're talking about whether it's ok to step on ants or not.  The belief that abortion is ok forces that opinion on the unborn child with the ultimate finality, doesn't it?  I mean it effectively destroys their life so that the mother can go on with hers.  Why?  \n\n  Because everyone makes mistakes...  \n        So it's acceptable to make someone else pay for \n        your mistake.\n\n  Because sometimes the woman is a victim of a violent\n  crime.  Should she have to carry the constant reminder\n   of the crime with her?\n         Again, we are making someone else pay for the \n          crime but I can have compassion on the woman\n          and understand this argument.\n\n  Because the baby is diseased:\n         First of all, medicine is not 100 % accurate.  If it\n         were we wouldn't have malpractice suits.  My \n         wife was advised to abort her son because the \n         doctors said that he would be born retarded due to\n         all of the medications she was on.  He is a healthy\n         normal, productive 21 year old man of whom I am\n         quite proud.  Doctor's are not gods.  They don't\n          know they are only guessing.  But hey, let's make\n         the baby pay for the doctor's mistake, right?\n\n          But let's assume the doctor is right.  Now we're \n          talking about quality of life.  How arrogant people\n          are to think that they are smart enough to decide \n          that "this life is worth something but not this other\n          one because 'I' think it's defective."  Ok then, let's\n          round up all of those with Dowsn syndrome and \n          just put them out of their misery... or is it ours?\n          Then, right after them we'll round up all of the old\n          and infirmed and get rid of them too because they\n          don't really serve any real purpose.  Let's start\n          with Steve Hawkings the astrophycisist....        \n          his life was pretty worthless.\n\n          "But don't shoot me or take my life because I'm \n           worth something."   Quality of life???  Please.\n           Someone saying, "In my opinion no one could\n           convince me that living a life crippled and in \n           pain is not better than no life at all" is all well and\n           good except he/she isn't talking about their life,\n           are they?  Their forcing their opinon on someone\n          else.   \n  \n    The child will grow up unwanted, unloved and will live a\n          horrible life:\n          See above arrogance...  Now, not only do we \n          know what is the best quality of life we can also \n          predict the future!!!!   Yeah!!!!!   I wonder what\n          Abraham Maslow would have said about that.  \n          (If you don't know who he is google him - and \n            know that he was born unwated, unloved and \n            abused.)\n\n"But... don't force your opinions on me...  Just sit idly by while we kill millions of babies who's only crime was being conceived by someone who were more concerned about their own needs."   \n\nI'll stop forcing my opinions on you when you stop forcing your opinions on those who are the most helpless and unable to defend themselves.