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In reply to the discussion: My conversation with a pro-life friend today... [View all]citizen blues
(570 posts)49. You go!!!! Don't let pro-lifers have it both ways!
This is the sort of conversation I'm encouraging all of my friends to have! Stop the hypocrisy!
"If abortion is murder, then it's murder regardless of how the pregnancy began. The embryo doesn't have full rights in one situation and no rights in the next. It's not the baby's fault that it was conceived in circumstances of rape or incest, so if abortion is murder, why should the baby face execution for the father's crime?"
Most pro-lifers aren't willing to take this extreme position. The only alternative is for them to allow women to make their own choices. Leave the decision to the woman, her support system, and her doctor.
Period.
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I have Jewish friends who told me that life doesn't begin until its first breath outside the mother.
freshwest
Aug 2012
#22
That sounds like the beginning of it, but they have other books to go along with that set of books.
freshwest
Aug 2012
#25
When you can survive outside the mother's womb is a good definition for life.
MatthewStLouis
Aug 2012
#38
I've been thinking of an analogy for quite some time now: How many people are on this bus?
A HERETIC I AM
Aug 2012
#10
I'm old enough to remember when the Church used to teach that life didn't begin until,...
Spitfire of ATJ
Aug 2012
#14
I agree and the rapist should have no say in the decision making at all - he should be in jail.
Booster
Aug 2012
#20