Steelplate
Bluesman
Murder is a moral issue which we have made a legislative one. Should we make it "go away" and leave it as a "private matter" between the murderer and their victim?
That is the logic you are using, and it completely collapses if you believe killing a fetus in the womb is murdering a human being.
If abortion is not the extinguishing of a human life, why are you personally opposed to it?
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Yes, but since there is great debate over the issue of personhood and when it begins...I say let the judging up to God. There is no guilt by association here. If you abort a fetus, when you yourself die....you will be judged on that sin.
We know a living breathing person is a person with an inalienable right to life. There is great debate on the unborn....scientifically, religiously, emotionally and intellectually.
It should be a personal decision....to make it a legal one is to legislate the beliefs of another person.
Why am I against it? For probably the same reason you are....you take an authoritarian view on it, I take a libertarian view.
That being said....I think there needs to be a National discourse on the limits on abortion. I'm very much in favor of limiting it to the first trimester on a National level.
Why can't you articulate why you are against it?
I am against it because I believe it is the taking of a human life, little different than if you killed your parents. How could you take a "libertarian view" in such a case? Would you take a "libertarian view" toward people who wanted to off their parents so they could collect their inheritance sooner?
That makes no sense.
Perhaps it is more like gambling to you. So, for example, you would not go to a casino yourself, but would not want a law stopping others from going to a casino.
If that is closer to your point of view, then you are not opposed to abortion for the same reason I am, nor do you view it from the same place I do.
I'm not trying to be confrontational. I am just trying to understand where every possible viewpoint is coming from.
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the gambling thing is closer....
I believe that when it comes to PERSONAL sins.....like abortion, homosexuality, drinking and drugging, prostitution, masturbation, pornography(except child porn), etc.....laws should side on the individual.
The way I feel about it is that God gave us free will to sin or not sin....we also live in a free society that is supposed to respect the privacy and liberty of it's citizens.