Barrd
His Humble Servant
Are we making this personal? That wasn't my intention.LaDela said:I'm sorry but I really wasn't asking you for a book report of justifications and rationalizations. You cannot transfer how you would react in that position onto someone else. You have already given your excuses as to why you think it is perfectly fine to keep murders in business. There are always alternatives in medical treatments but you have to want to explore them. I simply agree with those who do not feel it's ok to profit off of someone else's death. If you have a problem with that, I cannot help you.
But as long as we're going there....
Are you one of those pro-life people who doesn't give a **** about the kid once it's born and breathing?
There do seem to be an awful lot of those.
I have taken women in crisis pregnancies into my own home, where I spent my own money caring for them. I was there at the hospital when their babies were born. Some of these women have kept in touch with me, and their kids, some of them with kids of their own today, still call me Nana.
In fact, just a few months ago I went to the birthday party of a kid who thinks of me as his great grandma. He is five.
See, I've been involved in the pro-life fight for a very, very long time. I've gotten down in the dirt, and gotten my hands dirty. I have helped to find adoptive parents. I have held women whose children have died.
Is it okay to profit off of someone's death? I guess it depends on how you look at it. Do you think it's okay to have a will? And when someone dies, should their beneficiary be entitled to the estate that was bequeathed to him or her?
"Of course," you will say. You may even be someone's beneficiary yourself. Most parents do try to leave a little something for their children...
Okay, what about a living will? Someone has donated his organs to medical science. Let's say you need a heart transplant (or lung, or whatever) and someone with your blood type has died and the organ you will die without is available. Would you be willing to accept the transplant, or will you refuse to "profit off of someone else's death"?
Again, I say....I will not judge someone whose child is diagnosed with a terminal illness who accepts this medical treatment for their kid.
And I think anyone who would call them "cannibals" or "evil" is a hypocrite. Where is the love that is supposed to mark the Christian as the Lord's disciple? It is conspicuously lacking here.
You don't even want to hear my opinion of someone who accuses me of "keeping murderers in business".