Reply #32: I think we have to first separate Church and State. As a democratic

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society, the government should ensure the freedom to choose any faith, any religion or denomination thereof. The government therefore should not co-mingle or impose legislation based on any one favored belief of one or the other religion or it's denomination.

It is as such, that none of us know for fact when a blob of cells is a viable being. Either scientifically or spiritually speaking.
Do we know if bacteria, or a worm are viable beings? Is the issue a question of the ability to feel pain and suffering? How do you define a being? These are questions that no one will ever be able to answer with concrete certainty.

I think people are confusing religiously moral and ethical questions with legally ethical and moral question defined by government. Ask any religion and it will say do not kill.
As a child, I was catholic, the Father was teaching us at the time, that God created everything on earth for the use of us, human beings. That animals, have no feeling no consciousness and and God created them to serve mankind. I vehemently disagreed.
Buddhists believe all sentient beings are equally precious, nothing is above or below.

The abortion issue is ultimately an ethics and moral question for each individual and for each individual to decide themselves. A very private personal issue, I tend to think, does not affect society as a whole, such as dumping massive pollutants, which should be regulated by the government.

No one will enjoy a decision of an abortion, no one. It primarily may be a woman's right, as she carries the main burden, but it takes two to get into such a position. Ironically, both are "equally" responsible. So in a sense I agree, but equal rights come with equal responsibilties.
But it is a private matter and people should rather concentrate on creating a society that is responsible and ethical by example in action and words.
"youthful indiscretion and all".

Roe vs Wade is best left "As-Is", the government has to allow the freedom to choose, isn't that what democracy is all about?