What is the life of one child worth?

Sorry, I vowed to stay off this subject but I wanted to briefly chime in and say I don't think it's a matter of what issues are MORE important, it's a matter of what issues are equally or ALSO important. Based on your post I really don't expect you to comprehend or agree with that statement, I just wanted to express my view.

It is easy to get so focused on saving one tree where you don't see the risk of the rest of the forest being lost.

 

4000 abortions in the US per day hardly seems like 1 tree. :tear:

 

Or it is just an excuse

 

This thread is a false dichotomy. It isn't either you have this or that. But given the construct of the argument, we (as a society) choose many things over one life every day. For example, is our freedom worth the life of even one soldier?

 

But, MP a soldier chooses to be put in harms way.. they are WILLING to be killed for a cause...

A baby does not choose to be put in harms way.. .they are not WILLING to be killed for a cause...

This idea that one life should be sacrificed for a whole nation is not new...
The Pharisees adn corrupt leaders used this same argument in trying to kill Jesus.. right after Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead...

 

Understood, but that isn't the point.

It still gets back to the idea that one issue overrides everything else. As a nation, we must be able to walk and chew gum simultaneously. It isn't "this" or "that". If we cannot multitask, we are done.

 

AJ we posted simultaneously, so the first part of your post is answered above. But let me try to answer these things.

I don't think I have ever met anyone who is "pro-abortion", although I am sure there are some people who are. The thing is, most of the pro-choice folks I have ever been around are only wanting it to remain legal for those circumstances on the tails of the normal curve...that is pregnancy that occurs because of incest or rape, or if the life of the mother is impacted. I would not call that a pro-abortion stance.

Secondly, let me answer your last question with a question. If you believe every fertilized ova is a person, then why did God create zygotes in fallopian tubes in the case of ectopic pregnancy? Why did God create fetuses that spontaneously abort, even in late term?

 

Why was Blagovich impeached?
He tried to sell a congressional seat.
He was corrupt....

No one in their right mind would vote for him now. Even if he could get the US out of this economic crisis... why?
HE believes what he did was right.. He sees no problem in selling congressional seats...

Those of us that will not vote for a pro-choice candidate follow the same logic...

The approval of murder for babies should disqualify anyone from running for office.
Just as Blagovich was disqualified.
Which is worse? Killing a baby.. .or selling a congressional seat?

If a politician would campaign on the premise that he feels mothers should have 24 hours to choose after giving birth whether or not the baby gets to live.. this country would be in an uproar (I would hope)...

Imagine a law that would give the mother a right to kill her baby within the first 24 hours after giving birth....

Any politician that would promote such law would NEVER be elected...

What is the difference in that law and abortion... both are killing the baby... the only difference is in the timing.

 

A 12 year old's school speech isn't a source, although it may be factually true. Even so, it still happens. How many is "very few"? When is it a small enough sample not to matter? One percent of a million is ten thousand. Would any of us get on an airplane if one percent of them crashed? That would mean very many plane crashes every day. For example, there are about 50,000 commercial flights worldwide per day. If one percent of them crashed, that would be 500 plane loads of people crashing every single day. One percent sounds small, but it isn't.

I have stated before, I am against late term abortion, and abortion in lieu of contraception. But we cannot throw out the exceptions.

 

So you support killing them before they're born so they won't "suffer" while living.

How charitable of you.

 

Open your eyes.

There are several of them that post on BB.

 

Would you accept Planned Parenthood's statistic's...

The Alan Guttmacher Institute (the research arm of Planned Parenthood) states:

1% are victims of incest or rape
1% had fetal abnormalities
4% had a doctor who said their health would worsen if they continued the pregnancy
50% said they didn't want to be a single parent or they had problems in current relationships
66% stated they could not afford a child
75% said the child would interfere with their lives.

http://eng.christianitydaily.com/advice/advice2.htm



ONLY 1% are victims of incest or rape....
And so what? Did the baby do anything to die? Kill the rapist.. he is the guilty one.. not the Baby....

But most pro-choice people I know.. would defend the rapist's right to live... (against Capital Punishment) and would kill the baby...

 

So getting back to an earlier response, why does God "throw out" babies he created through miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy? Also, insisting on no exceptions is why Roe v. Wade will never be overturned. Most people in the US will never accept such a hardline stance. Better to save many than save none through irrational adherence to an all or nothing stance. Many folks would be willing to outlaw most elective abortions, but are not willing to force their daughters and wives to carry to term the offspring of a rapist.

 

See my example of 500 airline crashes a day. That is what one percent is.