I know I do...
I just got finished sharing a button with my associates over at Facebook that reads "I vote for people that don't kill babies."
I also saw recently a bumper sticker on a van that read, "Smile, your parents chose life."
Too often I think that life is under appreciated. I know on occassion I have thought so personally... Questioning this or that, and sometimes even God...
But as the case solution often is, it is really a matter of perspective... What is life?
To answer this question we can go to science... Life is blah, blah, blah... and the problem with that is that amongst the "so-called-scientists" they cannot figure out at what point life starts... Is it at conception, after all the cells are now multiplying to form an individual? Is life at a certain trimester during the pregnancy process? Is life at the point the little baby (ehem... excuse me "fetus") sticks it's baby-toe or its head out? What if only part of it is outside and it dies, was it only half-human, half thing? It all sounds too muddled... Now do not get me wrong, I love Science, it is a great way to understand the stuff all around us, but does some stuff really need explaining or do we already know the answer? (Ex. Why do we eat?)
To answer this question we can go to science... Life begins within the womb, at conception, etc... But the most common retort to this statement is that this is a matter of belief and religion, not science... Well if science can use the excuse that it can explain things where "religion fails," then why cannot "religion" explain things where "Science fails" with the same credibility? It sounds like a double standard to me...
So the Bible teaches that Abortions are wrong... It is flat out murder... But then the other side comes in with one of their three main arguments (If there are others, I am sorry I did not include them, these are just the 3 I have heard multiple times...)
1. It is not human, it is a fetus (in other words a thing...) You tell a mother that the "thing" that is kicking inside her belly is not human... As harsh of an observation as that was that is what the "Pro-Choice" people are arguing...
2. A women should have the right to choose what to do with her body, you do not want to take away her rights do you? Do I want to take away rights, hmmm... Let me think about that... Hmm... No, I do not... Let's see who is taking whose rights... The mother "CHOSE" to have sex knowing full well what the possible outcome maybe... Then now, as if by miracle, she is pregnant... She gets to chose what to do with the life inside of her, just because it is her body... Let us think about that last part... First, it is not all her, half of that belongs to him... Secondly, if the fetus was a part of her body, then would not the removal of it be more harmful... Finally, back to the CHOICE thing... The baby does not have a choice, in fact, it never stood a chance... (But then there are those who do not think that the baby is human... See point #1...)
3. What if she was raped? So we should punish the child for the crime someone else committed? Believe me, I feel pain and sorrow for the lady who got raped... I really do, but why do we have to kill the baby? Why not focus at that point in time on the getting the rapist? Or spend the time on planning on what to do with the baby... Instead the first thought is, "Ohh... This is a baby as a result of a rape, let's get rid of it..."
So I guess I could say I have three problems that are preventing me from supporting abortions...
1. The negative perspectives that it promotes. It's not human, it is worthless...
2. The hypocricy of it... We are Pro-Choice (As long as the father and the baby are not the ones doing the choosing...)
3. The fact that even amongst their own group they cannot give a sound, scientific answer as to when "Life" starts.
My conclusion...
Until there is a point in time in which an expert on the Creation of Life speaks and tells us when life begins, then I will just have to wait...
-- Waiting --
-- Waiting --
Oh yeah, (snaps my fingers) that is right... God created life and he said it begins at conception in Psalms and Jeremiah even said that God knew him while he was still in the womb... Well, God has been right in all other areas of Science, why not trust him in this one too...
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We trust science over religion because science is based on evidence supported by experiments with results that are repeatable versus religion were we are using a text from several hundreds of years ago written without a lot of understanding that we have today. Another thing to note is that science doesn't necessarily fail it just takes its dear sweet time getting anything done. Religion is great for teaching us how to better understand our morals and why we as a species should have a set guideline on how to make decisions regarding ethics. For everything else in life, not so much right now.
I do agree on abortion though, its not an effective contraceptive method yet I recognize the need for the procedure for as long as there is not a better alternative. When we can safely transfer a fetus/baby/human/sperm-egg-mergorama to a couple who wants a child then we can do away with abortion. When we can adjust for any life threatening complications during pregnancy without having to choose who can live then we can do away with abortion. When people actually bother to properly explain sexual relations in areas such as emotional development and how to effectively maximize contraceptive use then we can do away with abortion. This is one of the reasons we need to push some of our scientific research in pregnancy so that we don't have to resort to abortion. Until then it will sadly be survival of the fittest and who lives are the ones with the best odds.
I believe in a woman's right to choose...
whether to get so involve in a relationship as to end up having a baby in her womb. Once the baby's there, no one has the right to take it's life but God.
Thanks for your opinion/belief Anonymous...
Anonymous said...
We trust science over religion because science is based on evidence supported by experiments with results that are repeatable versus religion were we are using a text from several hundreds of years ago written without a lot of understanding that we have today.
I want to thank you for the topic of my next posting... I will draft it today (hopefully) and post it tommorrow (ideally)...
I personally do not believe that a person can truly segregate science and religion for two basic reasons...
1. The line between the two is not always so clear-cut... If religion teaches us ethics, how can some science be unethical if it is an entirely seperate entity? Or if religion only teaches us how to live, why does the Bible have so many historical and scientific facts?
2. What "Science" is can be different from person to person... THe same with religion... For me, I do not believe in a religion, I believe in the Bible... I do not follow a man's interpretation of it, I read it, study it, and draw my own conclusions... I know that the Pastor of my church would be very unhappy with me if someone asked me why I believe something and I say, "Because that is what my Pastor (or church) believes." He has taught us to develop our own beliefs... And to me that is not a religion... A religion is man's attempt at explaining God... And that historically has not turned out well... The same goes for science... I believe in the Scientific Method, not in the words of scientists... A scientist can say or make claims all that he/she wants, but until there is hard fast scientifically derived evidence cannot believe it (btw, that is my largest problem with Evolution, but that will be another post)...
While I am happy you agree that abortion is wrong, I am sorry to hear that you would still allow it... My response to the "neccessity argument" has been the following... "Women have been around since almost the beginning of time (Adam was there first for awhile), so when was rape invented? What did women do then?" I know that is harsh, and if you know me that seriously does not sound like a statement I would say, being the nice guy I am... But unfortunately it is a valid question, that goes unanswered... Females have lasted this long...
I do appreciate your desire to properly educate the youth of America, but therin lies yet another post that I have been wanting to do as well... The problem is what are we educating them about... Are we teaching them about the natural function of sex? Are we teaching them how to have sex? Are we teaching them about Abortions? Are we teaching them exaclty what is being aborted? The answer is yes to all but the last question... I know, I went through 5 years of it in public school myself (5-9 grades)... Abortion is killing a fetus is what is taught, not Abortion is killing a baby... I even remember the teacher trying to get that across to another student in the classs when they "accidently" answered the abortion question by saying baby...
One last question before I go though... What is a failed abortion? What exactly did you fail at?
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