I also think that there are circumstances where that choice possibly has to be made - but not as often as people think.
In the case of eclampsia, if it occurs early enough, it will come out to be a choice of mother or child.
The only cure is delivery and before 26 weeks, that is a death sentence for the child.
However, the mother AND child will surely die if the baby is not delivered.
So it does come to the choice of "murdering" the baby or letting them both die.
I do know that there are surely other scenerios which leave the parent's with a horrible choice and there are many that I just don't know what I'd do.
Do I crucify the parents?
No I don't.
It's a supremely difficult choice and one I cannot make for them.
IF there's a chance that the child can live, then I think it's best to try and IF there's a way for the pregnancy to continue for a little while to give the baby the best chance, then I think it's best to try.
But there are times when the choice is pretty clear and I think that's a different story than just "abortion".
Even a tubal pregnancy results in an abortion.
That baby has no chance to survive but the choice needs to be made to let "nature take it's course" or to try to save the mother.
Situations like this are the only...only...*ONLY*...time when the abortion is justified. In a case like this it is clearly not murder. My post regarding abortion being "government sponsored murder", and "baby extermination centers" is not in referance to situations like this.
If someone were to say that THIS situation is murder, they would have to say that to opt out of the abortion...knowing your wife would die...would ALSO be murder.
StandingFirm, are you sure you want to advocate webdog MURDERING his wife, and the mother of those kids?
Whatever happened to God's will?
Is it God's will for Him to give someone a child only for them to make a decision to kill it before it reaches full term?
Is it His will for His children to justify sin?
I already know the answer to both of those questions...
it is No.
Is it murdering the mother to save the life of the child?
No, it is not.
God's will is for the child to be born. otherwise, he would not have allowed the pregnancy to take place.
If the mother dies because the child was born, it is not that man is killing the woman.
It is God's will.
Standing by and watching someone die and not doing anything is not murder?
I think it is.
Is it God's will that a child will get cancer?
Should we allow that to run it's course too because we need to yield to God's will?
That's not us killing the child.
As I said, God gave the little life growing inside of Mom.
It is never justified to murder that life.
If God did not want dad to have that child, or mom to have that child, He would never have given that child.