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Originally Posted by c172g
First off, put the Catholic view of abortion away. I was raised Catholic, and the crap that church dishes out makes me want to puke when I hear about the molestation that they continaully knew about & covered up. That organization is crooked in a big way. Take a few steps back & think over who's writing the rules you believe in.
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So we should hold a whole religion responsible for a minority? Why don't we just ban Islam while we're at it, because, you know, they support blowing people up? Or maybe we should throw out Judaism, since they treat they're women like shit, or maybe write off Buddhism, because they set themselves on fire, so they must be nuts? Just because a group within a religion is bad, we cannot demonize the whole religion.
I'm nominally Catholic, and I'm against abortion in most cases. It has nothing to do with what the Church says, and everything to do with what is right. A life that has the potential to suck is infinitely better than none at all. It isn't black and white, I can see some cases, I could see a reason for it, but things like poverty or overpopulation do not work in my opinion.
The earth is not overpopulated. India, and China are overpopulated, but America has so much land either unused or used innefficiently, that it's rediculous to use such an argument. Our government pays farmers not to use there lands every year so that the price of food stays high, and yet people starve. The US government buys up excess milk and stores it in a cavern in Kansas, and we still believe that America is overpopulated. We've got plenty of land, and a lot of water, and the potential for more food, how then are we overpopulated?