Bonnie said:
You bring up another good point d. AJ it's none of my business what your age is, but I wonder how scared you would be if at some point you become disabled or just old and someone deems you unworthy to live anymore and decides to end your life, and suddenly you have no choice, but you desperately want more life. Some young elitist snot nose thinks you are no longer a viable human, maybe your family doesn't want you anymore???
Im still young but I worry about that, because once you start taking away a babies choice to have life you open a pandoras box for everything else.
That is true. It is not anyone's business about my age. But death and dying is not one of the things that concerns me. You are talking about what is called the 'slippery slope.' Actually I am aware of things that many people have not had to face or acknowledge in their own lifetimes. There are people who are lingering in long-term care facilities who are either not aware of their surroundings or they are in so much pain and misery that they have no quality to their life.
Many physicians work with families of these very ill people who have no hope of becoming productive humans or of living without severe intractible pain. Some doctors quietly advise the family of what their loved ones are facing. There are people languishing for years in nursing homes, with their heads in their laps, drooling and suffering from moment to moment. Their times have not come to leave this earthly veil of tears.
For anyone to decide to take their lives is not only illegal but immoral. For the taking of anyone's life even one second before they die naturally is a sin and illegal.
But that slippery slope concept has been used in certain organizations (like the Hemlock society) in which a person can voluntarily and painlessly take their own life or a family member can decide that their loved one has no brain life (HUMAN LIFE OR SOUL) but the body continues to breathe, the heart beats and food is forced fed can have a doctor give them a mild overdose of a narcotic allowing the person to slip off.
You are also taking about someone making the decision for you but there is also an order that most people sign when they enter a hospital called a DNR request. (Do Not Recessitate). In other words, no extra-ordinary means or machines are used to maintain life and the person passes away naturally.
None of this applies to the unborn for there is no evidence (other than movement) that the fetus has a human soul. That is metaphysics or what some people like to refer to as a belief in a Creator who has advised mankind in His Bible that there is no HUMAN LIFE in the forming fetus. The fact that abortion has now been around for 31 years and there has been no pandora's box opened for anything else.
Every human being, man or woman, has the free will and knowledge that what they do in this life has consequences. Roe vs Wade simply stated that the federal government can't legislate anybody's morality or ethical behavior when it has to do with their own lives.
And like it or not, that is a FACT....