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No. No. No. And Again NO.While I do not advocate abortion as an appropriate form of birth control...I will not condemn a woman to death if she is not capable of surviving giving birth.I will not condemn a person to a life of suffering and pain if they are brought into a house where there is no love, no food, no safety, no shelter.I will not condemn a woman to live with a daily reminder of the most horrific moment of her life - a rape or act of incest.I will not deny someone access to a health care treatment or procedure, regardless of what I may think of it.No. A wholesale rejection of abortion is not helpful. It puts existing life at serious risk, and is an unjust condemnation.Flame away.
Well I think it is reasonable to state your thoughts on this matter. However, this is what I have to say about abortion:First of all -- Abortion doctors are on extremely shaky moral ground (whether they know it or not) -- look at the following argument from [url="http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/abortion/ab0045.html]http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/...ion/ab0045.html[/url]A second thing we know by formal logic alone is that either we do or do not know what a fetus is. Either there is "out there," in objective fact, independent of our minds, a human life, or there is not; and either there is knowledge in our minds of this objective fact, or there is not.So, there are four possibilities: * The fetus is a person, and we know that; * The fetus is a person, but we don't know that; * The fetus isn't a person, but we don't know that; * The fetus isn't a person, and we know that.What is abortion in each of these four cases?In Case 1, where the fetus is a person and you know that, abortion is murder. First-degree murder, in fact. You deliberately kill an innocent human being.In Case 2, where the fetus is a person and you don't know that, abortion is manslaughter. It's like driving over a man-shaped overcoat in the street at night or shooting toxic chemicals into a building that you're not sure is fully evacuated. You're not sure there is a person there, but you're not sure there isn't either, and it just so happens that there is a person there, and you kill him. You cannot plead ignorance. True, you didn't know there was a person there, but you didn't know there wasn't either, so your act was literally the height of irresponsibility. This is the act Roe allowed.In Case 3, the fetus isn't a person, but you don't know that. So abortion is just as irresponsible as it is in the previous case. You ran over the overcoat or fumigated the building without knowing that there were no persons there. You were lucky; there weren't. But you didn't care; you didn't take care; you were just as irresponsible. You cannot legally be charged with manslaughter, since no man was slaughtered, but you can and should be charged with criminal negligence.Only in Case 4 is abortion a reasonable, permissible, and responsible choice. But note: What makes Case 4 permissible is not merely the fact that the fetus is not a person but also your knowledge that it is not, your overcoming of skepticism. So skepticism counts not for abortion but against it. Only if you are not a skeptic, only if you are a dogmatist, only if you are certain that there is no person in the fetus, no man in the coat, or no person in the building, may you abort, drive, or fumigate. So there are your four logical outcomes for each abortion. This means that each time an abortion occurs -- there is a 75% chance it is a serious crime of some sort:1. First Degree Murder2. Manslaughter3. Criminal Negligence4. Acceptable ACtNow I'm no doctor, but I would be crazy to go into this practice. Talk about liability exposure!As for your comments I have this to say:I will not condemn a woman to death if she is not capable of surviving giving birth.I actually agree with you on this one. Simply because if it really comes down to the mother's live versus the child's life. The mother's life should win out --- simply because the woman can create new life -- the baby cannot.I will not condemn a person to a life of suffering and pain if they are brought into a house where there is no love, no food, no safety, no shelter.Ok, this makes no sense. How do you know that the woman cannot support the child. How do you know the child's future is bleak beyond all hope? You really don't know this childs future --- let it live.I will not condemn a woman to live with a daily reminder of the most horrific moment of her life - a rape or act of incest.Do two wrongs make a right? NO! The right thing to do is let the child live. I mean, does the mother want to become a murderer in order to get revenge against the rapist? I sure hope not!I will not deny someone access to a health care treatment or procedure, regardless of what I may think of it.Lethal injection can "technically" be called a procedure too you know.