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Showing posts with label Abortion. Show all posts
January 21, 2022
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January 27, 2020
Life Equated With Hate
Does anyone get this sign from the Pro-Life rally last week?
Pro-Life is Pro-Hate
But equating Pro-Life with hate doesn't add up.
It actually seems the opposite that if you want to sanctify and protect life that you are loving people, not hating.
Sometimes to make a point, people will just say anything.
It's related to "gaslighting" where they want to manipulate you into questioning your own beliefs, values, and sanity.
Perhaps, throwing around terms like hate just dilutes the real meaning of it similar to making other false accusations against people.
We need to argue the issues, and not attack each other. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Life Equated With Hate
March 10, 2017
Does Unwanted Justify Murder?
"An unwanted fetus would support a woman's right to choose"
This means that a baby who isn't wanted potentially grows up to be abused and would rather not have been born.
However, can anyone really say this with a completely straight face?
Sure, some types of abuse can be so terrible that perhaps death is preferable.
But other times, unwanted children become loved or at least accepted children or otherwise make great things out of their lives!
And parents who didn't think at the time that they could do handle a child, find that they adapt or mature, and are better parents than they even expected.
Unwanted for an unborn baby shouldn't necessarily mean an abortion anymore than any other unwanted person in your life should mean that you can just terminate them.
We aren't G-d and we can't just get rid of people we don't like or want.
If that was indeed the case, there probably wouldn't be many of us left in the world.
Of course, there should be exceptions for abortion in cases of rape, incest, severe birth defects, or a clear and present danger to the life of the mother or child.
Otherwise, a life is a life, and a fetus is a person with a soul like any other from the Maker of heaven and earth. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Does Unwanted Justify Murder?
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January 28, 2017
I'm Pro-Life and Pro-Choice
People who know me know that I am a real feminist.
Lots of wonderful women in my life have been incredibly awesome and inspired me, starting with my beautiful mother, wonderful Oma (grandmother), my wife, and my lovely daughters.
As I learned early on, girls can truly be "sugar and spice and everything nice."
How society could have for millennia and in many places in the world still do today subjugate and abuse women is beyond comprehension.
- Women are not property!
- Women are not servants!
- Women are not to be used or abused!
What about though the issue of the right to choose whether to have or abort a baby?
Of course, where rape or incest is involved, or there are known serious birth defects that would make the child's life painful or miserable, or when there is serious risk to the life of the mother or child, then by all means, the mother and father need to make a very difficult choice.
Otherwise, we are duty bound to protect the child just as we protect the mother--these are G-d's creations and not just for the choosing and taking.
Life is life!
Murder is murder!
It's common sense to be pro-choice to minimize danger, pain, and suffering to baby and mother.
It's justice to be pro-life when baby and mother are blessed and well.
Really, it's no different than how we treat anyone else--for example, we need to allow physician-assisted suicide when the pain and suffering dictates this to be merciful, and we need to do everything to protect and save life when their is still ample hope.
There is a time when a mother and father must choose and a time when the choice ultimately belongs to G-d.
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Lots of wonderful women in my life have been incredibly awesome and inspired me, starting with my beautiful mother, wonderful Oma (grandmother), my wife, and my lovely daughters.
As I learned early on, girls can truly be "sugar and spice and everything nice."
How society could have for millennia and in many places in the world still do today subjugate and abuse women is beyond comprehension.
- Women are not property!
- Women are not servants!
- Women are not to be used or abused!
Like all human beings, women are to be respected, treated in every way as equals, and loved and cared for as all G-d creations fully deserve.
What about though the issue of the right to choose whether to have or abort a baby?
While I feel we need to fully respect women's rights, I think we also need to consider the baby's rights.
Of course, where rape or incest is involved, or there are known serious birth defects that would make the child's life painful or miserable, or when there is serious risk to the life of the mother or child, then by all means, the mother and father need to make a very difficult choice.
Otherwise, we are duty bound to protect the child just as we protect the mother--these are G-d's creations and not just for the choosing and taking.
Life is life!
Murder is murder!
It's common sense to be pro-choice to minimize danger, pain, and suffering to baby and mother.
It's justice to be pro-life when baby and mother are blessed and well.
Really, it's no different than how we treat anyone else--for example, we need to allow physician-assisted suicide when the pain and suffering dictates this to be merciful, and we need to do everything to protect and save life when their is still ample hope.
There is a time when a mother and father must choose and a time when the choice ultimately belongs to G-d.
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
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May 1, 2016
Pro Life OR Pro Choice
I took this photo going to the doctor last week.
This guy is standing outside the office building and he goes, "Did you know that there is an abortion clinic in there?"
Sort of stating the obvious as a guy, I said, "Well I'm not going there!"
It was fascinating though watching this guy picketing with his sign, "Pray To End Abortion."
And he's standing in front of some spiffy signs advertising Fendi and Gucci.
Perhaps, he's not understanding where some people come from and what they go through getting pregnant either not by choice (rape, incest, etc.) or they are not ready to properly care for a child or there is a clear and present danger to the health of the mother.
While late term abortions are completely anathema and in my mind really are murder, perhaps early term abortions, even if not a desired outcome by any means are at times a type of life-saving necessity for the reasons mentioned.
Unfortunately, I really don't think it's a simple either/or.
Yes, we must be pro life and protect the unborn children.
AND
Yes, we must have some element of pro choice and protect the mother and the child when it's birth would bring more harm than good.
The decision needs to be made case-by-case and are excruciating to decide and do the right thing for all.
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Pro Life OR Pro Choice
May 28, 2013
Welcome To The World
According to Discovery News, the baby was flushed down a toilet...alive!
Residents heard the cries of the baby from the 4th floor bathroom.
Firefighters sawed away sections of a 10 cm pipe with the 2-day old baby inside.
The baby had been in the pipe at least 2 hours--I am amazed it didn't drown.
The baby was brought to the hospital and put in an incubator and luckily, the baby survived.
I am sorry for the parent(s) who you'd think must've gone through hell before doing something this drastic.
And while I don't like to judge or be judged, however unwanted this pregnancy or unprepared the parents were for this new child--there has got to be better ways to deal with it than this.
An early abortion or giving the child up for adoption is just two options, and struggling to keep the child is a third.
Maybe the parent(s) thought they could save the baby from even a worse fate living in poverty, born out of wedlock, or violating the one-child per family policy--but it is still hard to imagine taking an innocent, helpless infant and doing something so cruel and disgusting.
How will this child grow up, knowing it was thrown away like this by its own parents? What type of self-worth will it have? How will it feel and act towards others in society having been acted on this way?
There are so many monsters out there...killers, rapists, abusers (many serial)--do we wonder where they came from?
I remember learning people are product of nature and nurture--in this case, there was certainly no nurture, quite the contrary...and it will take at least a normal new home, where they are treated like children and not waste products for this child to have a fighting chance. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Welcome To The World
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