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Originally Posted by Cosmo Girl
This issue is very important in america right now and is both a political and religious issue. I think that it is safe to say that the majority of pro-lifers are religious and that is their main argument for it. We cannot interphere in god's miracles, and the like... This is a serious problem when it comes to making laws and deciding what the entire nation should do. Even though Bush is doing a horrible job at it, the church is supposed to be SEPARATE from state. Therefore, this argument of why it should be illegal or condemmed should be thrown out the window right now.
I think is is absolutly disgusting that people can say the sins of the rapist don't justify killing an innocent child and that the women is a horrible person for doing so, when there is a war going on in Iraq that is killing thousands of innocent children because of Saddam's sins. If you support the anti abortion law (in the case of rape) and the iraq war...which the majority of Bush supporters do...you are a hypocrite! What is the difference?
Second of all, lets not forget that government is made up of almost entirly males and that this issue is almost entirely female.
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I'm against abortion's legality, and I use no part of my religion to argue this position. For what it's worth, I agree that those who argue against abortion on the basis that prenates have souls, do not have a sufficient legal argument.
What I don't understand is how someone could be against the death penalty but for the capital gains tax. Total hypocrites, that's what they are!
This is a war, not elective surgery. Despite any precautions taken, innocent people will almost certainly die in a war. War is sometimes deemed still 'worth it', in spite of this, because the projected benefits exceed projected costs. And that's the general republican/neocon view of the war. This may have been a faulty position to take on the war, I'll grant that possibility, but it's not inconsistent with an anti-abortion view.
The issue is only 'almost entirely female' if you've made up your mind that the prenate is not a human being. Otherwise, it's about 75-25. 50-50 if you're willing to entertain the notion that whether or not a given action is murder is the
business of
all citizens.