1) It clearly says in the Bible that God’s greatest gift to man was free will, not the ability to inseminate and egg. Strangely, it’s the one thing that many Christians want to take away from other people. Seems rather hypocritical.
2) Jesus said, “Judge not, lest ye be judged.” That basically means it’s not our place to interpret the sins of others, that’s between them and God. The next line Jesus said was, “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” Not sure about you, but I’m pretty sure I’ve committed the odd sin here or there, so if we’re going to have a debate about following the words of Jesus, those ones are pretty clear cut. I have no memory of anywhere in the Bible Jesus talking about abortion, so it’s not my place to infer what Jesus or God thought about that.
3) Following on from that point, in the Old Testament, one sin was defined as men trying to know the mind of God. Like I said, it’s not my place to figure that stuff out and then judge other people.
4) I also remember the stuff about love thy neighbour. When combined with not judging them, I like to think there’s stuff that’s none of my business and so I keep out of other people’s affairs.
Personally, I’m not one for religion, to each their own whatever helps you sleep at night.
I do however believe in bodily autonomy and bodily integrity. That means a person owns their body and has full and final say about what goes on with it and inside it.
If someone dies tomorrow from an accident, the hospital can’t harvest their organs unless they signed a piece of paper saying they could. Doesn’t matter how many actually living people that could help because we respect the bodily integrity even of a corpse. But on the other hand, you’d deny the freedom to choose what happens inside an actual living woman’s body.
In essence you think it’s perfectly ok for a dead person to have more rights than a living person. Sorry, that makes no sense.
And lastly, there’s science. Any biologist or reproductive specialist will tell you that a clump of cells or a zygote is not a person. It has the ability to potentially, maybe become a person but until somewhere in the second trimester it’s just an multi-celled organism living off a host, in essence it is a parasite.
Now if you want to believe that conception is some “miracle” rather than science, I’m ok with that. But to try and force that belief on me and others, well, that’s not fair.
Personally, I wish many Christians would just mind their own business. Stop judging and proselytizing telling everyone else they’re sinners. It becomes tiresome.
If there is a God, then when the rest of us meet Him, we’ll have that chat and come to a landing, but you won’t be involved. God doesn’t need your help, apparently he created the whole universe in six days, I think it’s safe to say He’s got this.
Well, it’s only murder if you ignore science telling you that a multi-celled organism with not ability to think, feel or reason is somehow a person. A three week old zygote has more physiologically and biologically in common with the flu virus than a person. So it’s “murder” if you ignore facts. But so is eating a sandwich if we’re tossing out the rule book on logic and fact.
Catholic Prayer Warrior Response
Sean, there are other scientists and experts who believe different. Ultrasound advances are giving us an entirely new view of the life of a fetus. Your experts postulate when life begins but only God determines that.
The Holy Scriptures state there is a baby in the womb: Luke 1:41-42 “When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear!”
“I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5
The real question is, “What if life begins at conception and any form of chemical or surgical abortion is killing a human being? Are you willing to stand before God one day and say you took the word of scientist over God’s word in the scriptures?
I don’t know about you but I have read a number of descriptions of Hell by Saints who were allowed to go there while alive and bring back a report. Literally, it scared the hell out of me.
I will do everything in my power to make sure I go to Heaven for all eternity. The intensity of suffering in Hell is beyond comprehension. Is socialism such a great philosophy that you are risking damnation forever?