Why Do People Have Abortions?

How can we "understand" murdering the innocent?

We can't forsake truth for love... they go hand in hand.

 

If you will re-read my post I said I have a hard even getting my mind around the idea. I do understand that people have made and unfortunately will make this decision and believe that it was a difficult time for them and that they are going to need compassion in dealing with this time in their life, that is what I understand. Your "truth and love" is very much true, it seems however that most are willing to hammer away with the truth before they reach out with love. How is it that Christ like, how is that actually helping rather then condemning? I don't pretend to have the answers, but I challenge the responses of those calling themselves followers of Jesus and acting nothing like him.

 

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Lets see it seems as though I recall some verse about this..........
Matt 18:6?
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me,it were better for him that a millstone be hanged about his neck,and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.(JESUS)

You might say that they don't believe? Tell that to John,David ETC..

 

You dont have a clue what anyone on this board is doing with regards to this. The repsonses on this board mostly deal with the politics. The support for it. If you want to start another thread on dealing one on one with those who do this that is another issue. But typically we look at those like Obama, Boxer (who thinks children arent children until the get home from the hospital) Kennedy, Clinton etc who push for this holocaust.

 

You are correct, I don't - but the harsh hateful rhetoric is less then encouraging. Also I would challenge the notion that all that is being discussed is politics, re-read the entire thread, it is very personal and accusatory, much more then just politics.

What has politics really done to stop abortion? Nothing, in fact it is law that isn't going to be changed anytime soon, that it be legal and available. How has making this the one issue that qualifies or disqualifies you from political service saved one baby?

 

Again we typically do not address repentant abortionists. It is when they are unrepentant typically in office who push for the holocaust in this country. The idea that we should change our view because the law has not changed is a rather ridiculous argument. It isnt even a valid one.

Why would someone vote for those who support and push for the slaughter of children? A rather sick and twisted mind rationalizes that.

 

I don't think you should change your mind because a law is on the books, but I think we need to look to other avenues to see abortion come to an end. Politics simply isn't going to get the job done. Abortion gets lost in the shuffle when economic issues bubble up like we are seeing in the current political season or people don't want to be bothered with such a divisive issue. It's unfortunate for sure.

I don't think Obama is pushing for the slaughter of children, he has said that abortion's should happen less often. That isn't where I am on the issue, but I will take less abortions just about any way I can get them at this point.

 

I don't know anyone who thinks it will. But it shoudl be a major part of it. Although it isnt about politics. It is about legalization.

We want to be careful not to get caught up in situation ethics. Lack of finances is no reason to slaughter children.

What he says and his voting record are two different things. It sounds good on the microphone but in reality he holds the rghts of women over the unborn child. And as he has stated to him unborn children that are not intended are simply mistakes that the femail whatever the age should not be "punished' with. He has a low value of life in the womb. That alone disqualifies him from being President.

 

Thing I can never understand is, if you don't want to bring them up, why don't you just have them adopted, or better still get a willing friend/relative to bring them up if such a person exists? At least it would be better than aborting them.

I do think this issue is overdone by some Christians though, to the extent that other sins are overlooked.

 

Other sin are not overlooked. But it is those atrocities that are being shoved down our throats through legislation that gets so much attention. ie homosexuality and abortion.

Women abort because they want the right to decide what to do with their body regardless of the loss fo life inside them. It isnt about having to raise them it is about being able to destroy them because it is their body.