What is your stance on abortion? Which statement best fits your belief?

With that bit of information, knowing that at any stage of pregnancy a mother may indeed claim harm to herself, I'd say that it is an heroic endeavor to carry the pregnancy to term. And a heroin would not consider her life over her child. Abortion should be illegal for any reason.

 

That would be a no brainer, do the procedure. I know that there is a famine of commonsense these days but it would be the logical thing to do.

 

I'm guessing that I would be that person?

I have no apologies. My God is good! He can do anything he desires.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,360425,00.html

"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."

 

I let my wife make the decision .

Seriously though, a situation like this may be the only time I would condone such an act. It would need to be an absolute certainty that the baby is going to die no matter what is done.

 

I said when the mothers life is at risk.

I don't find logic in trading one life for another.

 

If in a medical procedure to save the life of the mother the unborn baby dies, is that truly an abortion? I consider an abortion to be when the intent of the procedure is to kill the unborn baby.

 

An interesting article:

www.lifeissues.net/writers/irv/irv_08natlaw.html

 

So the life of an unborn child is more important than the life of the mother? She is expendable, but the unborn baby isn't? What if the pregnant mother was your 11-year-old daughter who was beaten and brutally raped? Would you still feel the same--that she should sacrifice her life for the baby?

It's so easy for us to sit back and piously say what is right or wrong when we have never been in a certain situation. Personally, I would not be willing to lose of my daughters just to have another grandchild.

 

How often does a pregnancy occur from such violence? Are you saying that after such a sever beating she lives 9 months to deliver a healthy baby? Then dies? Maybe in the case of a comatose woman this might happen but the scenario just don't line up with the argument.

 

Why is either life more important? How do you propose to intentionally end the life of the unborn child?

 

I think what he said, if medically it came down to choosing the life of his child or his future grandchild, he would choose his child. I can't say I disagree with him but hope I will never be in that situation.

 

The problem with this situation is that there is a choice being made to kill the child. Any true parent would lay down their life for the child outside the womb. Why is it that when the child is still in the womb that many of those "true parents" start thinking differently?

 

So you are affirming the unborn life is more important than the mothers? Perhaps it's a matter of opinion. I would think God sees a soul as a soul.

Outside of the womb, the parent has a choice to lay down their life for their child. Are you saying the choice is made for them since the child is in the womb?

Remember, a "true" parent is one with a child irregardless of the quality of the parenting they provide.

 

No, I'm saying that both lives are of the same importance and that we should place our trust in God that he will work things for his good. In the case of a person making a choice to kill the baby, they are workings things for their good and making the life of the baby less imprortant than of the mother.