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Featured Abortion rates among Catholics 29% higher than Protestants

Discussion in 'Other Christian Denominations' started by BobRyan, May 14, 2013.

  1. targus

    targus New Member

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    Let's change the circumstances of our hypothetical.

    Suppose your wife would die unless she gets a heart transplant...

    And one of your children was found to be a perfect donor and the doctors said that the chances of a successful heart transplant were virtually 100%

    Would you allow your wife to die - or kill your child to give her the heart?

    Since "death is death" and sometimes a choice has to be made.
     
  2. DHK

    DHK <b>Moderator</b>

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    That would never happen and you know it. It is against the law, both man's law and God's law. The doctors would never perform such an operation.

    Your statement that women die giving birth because of complications is true. It is also irrelevant.
    There are more infants that die while mothers give birth than there are mothers. The mortality rates are very high even in the U.S. and in Canada. As many as five deaths our of a thousand will die prematurely before they reach the age of one day! But the mother lives.
    Why is that?
    There are many reasons, and many times that premature infant death could have been avoided though it is never called an abortion.
    That mother that drinks or take drugs during her pregnancy often causes the death of her own child, but it is not an abortion is it?
    That mother that takes fertility drugs knowing full well that she may have multiple babies and that chances are that one or more of them may not live for longer than a few days, but all of them will be born prematurely. When one of them dies, it won't be called abortion or murder. But she knew ahead of time that the chances were great that that would be the outcome.
    The list goes on.
    There are many reasons why infants die, why they are born prematurely, and don't live for many days. Their deaths could have been prevented. If this happens in our country, how much more does it happen in third world countries?
     
  3. targus

    targus New Member

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    And abortion isn't against God's law?

    What makes you so sure about that?

    And your point is what? That other people harm their unborn children too?

    So that some how justifies your position on killing the unborn to save the mother?

    You say that as though sin is justified by geographic location or economic standing.

    You still haven't explained how killing an unborn child to save the mother is more justified than killing a born child to save the mother.

    But you are rightly against one yet not the other.

    How is that possible if not "moral relativism" or "situational ethics"?
     
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