pat@alice.UucP (Pat Solomon) (11/22/85)
[bon appetit] In article <1863@hao.UUCP> woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes: >> As far as a fetus being a ``potential life'', it is exactly the >> point of most of the anti-abortion movement that it IS a life. The >> modifier ``potential'' is irrelevant. > > On the contrary, that modifier is the entire issue. If you consider >a fetus to be life from the moment of conception, and I or someone >else happens to disagree, what on earth gives *you* the right to >impose YOUR belief on everyone else? What GALL! What an ego! You >think you can determine morality for everyone. Your way is best for >everyone. People like that make me want to puke. > . . . > Exactly the point. YOU see abortion as murder, many others don't. Seeing that you chose to post this to net.religion and not a few persons there recognize the Bible as a communication from God, it may be of interest to note these verses from a modern translation of Exodus 21:22,23: "And in case men should struggle with each other and they really hurt a pregnant woman and her children do come out but no fatal accident occurs, he is to have damages imposed upon him without fail according to what the owner of the woman may lay upon him; and he must give it through the justices. But if a fatal accident should occur, then you must give soul for soul,..." This certainly implys that the God of the Bible disapproves of abortion or for that matter, birth-control methods that operate after conception has taken place, since this is tantamount to killing an individual whose development has already begun. >The pro-choice people are not FOR abortion. Many of them would not choose >to have an abortion themselves. What pro-choice means is simply the right for >each individual to determine their own morality. . . >You say abortion >is murder; I say that is your BELIEF, which you state as though it were >a fact. You really have an inflated sense of self-worth. > . . . > Why are these so-called "pro-lifers" bombing abortion clinics >and killing people instead of offering to take on the 18-year+ >responsibility that they want to force these women to take? Greg, you are correct that an individual's beliefs are involved in how they view abortion. The Bible's view should have a role in the decision of a Christian though some medical opinions also support that a fetus is a life. As for a Christian's view of those not so inclined, some articles posted lately quoted 1 Cor. 5:12,13 "For what do I have to do with judging those outside? Do you not judge those inside, while God judges those outside?" The final analysis is God's. Jesus overturned the tables of those conducting business inside the temple since that was the place for worship, but he didn't go around to pagan places of worship telling them how to run things. He *encouraged* people to turn to a righteous course of life but he didn't *make* them. He was "pro-choice." - - - -> Pat Solomon "80 and tea" -BL research!pat