Bonnie said:
Im not going to get into semantics and parsing words with you becaue this is not a semantics issue.
Actually semantics is exactly what we are dealing with here. You say there is life in the forming fetus and I say there is not only no proof of this HUMAN LIFE but there are no grounds to assume that HUMAN LIFE exists in the pre-born.
Obviously as a physician you may have performed abortions so you feel a great need to justify this to yourself because it makes you feel better.......Great for you so be it.
Actually I have never performed one single abortion in my career. That is not my speciality and do not care to peform abortions. But I like to think that there are people who know the value of human life and also feel that the ability to interpret the source of human understanding of the seat of HUMAN LIFE or SOUL was not defined at beginning point during formation in utero but actually not until the first breath is drawn. That is what it says. That is what I choose to understand as that is all we have to go by.
I never brought my faith into this discussion, you are the one doing that. Even from a secular humanisitic point of view, abortion is wrong because it is the taking of a human life, you don't have to be a religious person to see that, just a compassionate one. When all mudur is deemed legal then we can talk about abortion being right or okay. let's mot be hypocrites and decide who gets to live and who gets to die based on convenience.
You misunderstand me altogether. Murder is not defined as legal in our justice system but killing is defined as legal under certain circumstances. (war, self-preservation or the preservation of innocent lives).
You make a very clear definitive statement. "Abortion is wrong because it is the taking of a human life" then something about not having to be religious but just compassionate. If your bible doesn't tell you that a fetus is a human life then it must be someone else who gives you this most secret information. You have now decided that abortion is mudering human life and there is no changing that view fixed in concrete. I simply want proof of your PERSONAL BELIEF.
Since you brought up religion lets go there. You conveniently side step the whole premise of the bible by stating that no where in it says that killing the preborn is wrong, however it is right in the commandments that thou shalt not kill, again you get around that by saying a preborn baby is not a human therefore not protected by that law of god. Very transparent and this argument being used is getting very old!!!!
Let me give you the original words that are at least 2000 years old on parchment.
The first words are Exodus 20:13
And in Deteronomy 5:17
The Hebrew word is Lo-Tiresah
In neither of these Commandments does G-d say anything about a human life or soul in the pre-born. Your argument is old but carries no weight. Words used by G-d and Jesus mean something and you seem to find hidden meanings in them. The words are very clear: DO NOT COMMIT MURDER...
I sincerely doubt that whatever god you or anyone else espouses looks down and sees all the those helpless inocent babies being ripped apart and thrown out like garbadge as something that is perfectly understandable and just gosh darn okay. If you really and truly beleive that then you have absolutely no concept of a loving and just god, and I feel sorry for you truly!!
Oh but I do believe in a loving and just G-d. He simply said nothing about HUMAN LIFE being in an unborn fetus. Oh I have seen dead fetuses fully formed in my training. They were still-borns and I didn't see their HUMAN LIFE had been in them.
By the way just because abortion is the law of the land that does not make it right. Slavery was the law of the land until some enlightened and religious in society realised how immoral it was and ended it. As far as the pro life groups go I'll give my money to them any day fo the week becasue they use that money to save lives not destroy it. They give pregnant women a place to stay, have the baby and then give it up for adoption, much more positive thing wouldn't you say???
I would also prefer adoption and giving birth to living children. But to compare abortion (apples) to slavery (oranges) as both being immoral is a strawman argument. Slaves were and are human beings with a HUMAN LIFE in them but G-d said that there is no human life in the new born until HE breathes the SOUL or ESSENCE into their nostrils at birth. I believe Him and not your gut instincts.
That money you give to anti-abortion groups goes also to buy bullets to kill doctors with HUMAN LIFE in them who also know what G-d said. So in effect you are paying for the murder of living beings.