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Originally posted by windword
reply to post by yoyoyoyo
Honest rape! Are you kidding me? Who are you going to put in place to make that decision, to judge the woman who claims rape, you?
What if a married woman is raped and can't be sure who the father is?
It shouldn't matter whether or not a woman was raped. She, and only she, should be who decides if her body will welcome or reject a child. An unwanted child IS an uninvited, parasitic curse, not a blessing, no matter how you skew it.
While you're talking about evil and god, let's take a look at the god of the bible.
www.evilbible.com...
GOD IS NOT PRO-LIFE
Hosea 9:11-16 Hosea prays for God’s intervention. “Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. Give them, 0 Lord: what wilt thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. . .Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.”
Numbers 5:11-21 The description of a bizarre, brutal and abusive ritual to be performed on a wife SUSPECTED of adultery. This is considered to be an induced abortion to rid a woman of another man’s child.
Numbers 31:17 (Moses) “Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every women that hath known man by lying with him.” In other words: women that might be pregnant, which clearly is abortion for the fetus.
Hosea 13:16 God promises to dash to pieces the infants of Samaria and the “their women with child shall be ripped up”. Once again this god kills the unborn, including their pregnant mothers.
2 Kings 15:16 God allows the pregnant women of Tappuah (aka Tiphsah) to be “ripped open”. And the Christians have the audacity to say god is pro-life. How and the hell is it that Christians can read passages where God allows pregnant women to be murdered, yet still claim abortion is wrong?
BIBLICAL INFANTICIDE:
Judges 11:30-40 Jephthah killed his young daughter (his only child) by burning her alive as a burnt sacrifice to the lord for he commanded it.
Exodus 12:29 God killed, intentionally, every first-born child of every family in Egypt, simply because he was upset at the Pharaoh. And god caused the Pharaoh’s actions in the first place. Since when is it appropriate to murder children for their ruler’s forced action?
Exodus 20:9-10 God commands death for cursing out ones parents Joshua 8 God commanded the deaths of 12,000 men, women, and children of Ai. They were all slain in the ambush that was planned by god.
2 Kings 2:23-24 The prophet Elisha, was being picked on by some young boys from the city because of his bald head. The prophet turned around and cursed them in the Lords name. Then, two female bears came out of the woods and killed forty-two of them. You would think that God could understand that sometimes the youthful make childish jokes. Calling someone “bald head” is far from being worthy of death.
Leviticus 26:30 “And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.”
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by yoyoyoyo
All stuff like this does is hurt Ron Paul.
Ron Paul is pro contraception, pro day after pill, and pro abortion under circumstances of rape.
Other republicans would have you believe the day after pill is abortion ( i don't consider it so). However I am pro choice and pro Paul. To me it is still about the girl's personal liberty. She has the choice of taking drugs, and drinking and smoking while pregnant. We all are in control of our choices. I do think abortion is selfish, but not murder necessarily. Any more than unplugging Shaivo was murder.
Originally posted by windword
Originally posted by Gram1point0
Originally posted by windword
reply to post by yoyoyoyo
Honest rape! Are you kidding me? Who are you going to put in place to make that decision, to judge the woman who claims rape, you?
What if a married woman is raped and can't be sure who the father is?
It shouldn't matter whether or not a woman was raped. She, and only she, should be who decides if her body will welcome or reject a child. An unwanted child IS an uninvited, parasitic curse, not a blessing, no matter how you skew it.
While you're talking about evil and god, let's take a look at the god of the bible.
Parasitic curse? Come now, do you honestly believe an evil act constitutes another evil act?
Abortion isn't an evil act.
Originally posted by Viesczy
We have 7 billion people, nearly all are not special and are examples of abject mediocrity whose existence does nothing to further our species.
The most populated countries have a terrible time providing even clean water for their population.
Why make more of what can't be supported?
We are not special. There is no soul. There is no god.
Quit making mediocre examples of humanity, our species is suffering for it.
Derek
Women's rights... Pfft... women's rights to freedom that's not freedom it's like selling your soul.
Originally posted by Demigodly
I'm pro-choice - but only within the 1st trimester stage - before heartbeat/breathing.
I don't like the one starting this thread. YOYO needs to tone the down with the rhetoric. Comes off sounding too militant and preachy. Btw, how can you only condone an abortion in a rape case? You are still MURDERING an innocent, VIABLE LIFE. Total hypocrisy/double standard after such a long winded moral stance on this issue.edit on 9-4-2012 by Byrd because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by paleorchid13
reply to post by yoyoyoyo
Women's rights... Pfft... women's rights to freedom that's not freedom it's like selling your soul.
I appreciate your idealistic sentiment, but this statement really isn't fair. Let's look at this a little deeper .
A pretty good percentage of fertilized eggs(20%) fail to implant or stay implanted and pass onto a sanitary napkin without the mother ever being aware she was pregnant. You would say "hey this is just nature " thereby setting the false premise that everything natural must be good. (Ex: Meaning diseased people should be left to die because medical interference isn't natural therefore letting them die must be good. )
But what if this unintentional miscarriage was not nature ? What if happened because the woman smoked , or was because of her medication, or poor diet ? Is she now to join the ranks of Charles Manson as a murderer?
If not , simply the words natural or unintentional are enough to get you off the hook of murder . Intentionally denying another access to your body and organs against your will , which under ANY other circumstance would be an understandable and PROTECTED fundamental human right. Suddenly because a woman get's pregnant , she is less than human, slutty , garbage that is not deserving of her rights that are procured and safeguarded to every human being under any other circumstance.
How far should we go ? What rights will women have , if any at all, if you grant every fertilized egg a name and legal rights? Have a tampon police squad , monitor the day to day activities of pregnant woman and put every miscarriage on trial ? Basically you are saying that someone has the right to life at the expense of any other human being's body autonomy and all other human rights, which is an outrageously dangerous precedent.
edit on 9-4-2012 by paleorchid13 because: (no reason given)