Should Abortion Be Legal ?

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It is not clearly murder if it is to save the life of the mother ... At that point it comes down to common sense ... You don't risk two lives to save one so you save the mother ...
Oh, it's clear. You just forgot to keep up with modern medicine.
 
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So now you are putting God onside with rapists. Charming. God has a plan for rape?

A 14 year old girl gang-raped =wrong
Forcing the same 14/15 year old to carry and bear her rapist's offspring even if her life is in danger = wrong

You have just calculated Wrong + Wrong = right.

Then you say 2 wrongs don't make a right?

Extremist.
Actually, yes. God has a plan for rape. It's in the Bible. Might want to read what it is, because it will make your hair stand up. :eek:
 
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#43
Abortion and rape are both terrible crimes ... I am fine with punishing abortionists with 20 years in prison while punishing rapists with 40 years in prison ... I am not for either wrong ... I am for punishing both ... It is anyone who supports abortion that is for a wrong ... It is beyond me how anyone can defend abortion and then declare themselves to be any worshiping Christian ... They have their priorities upside down and backwards ...
I'm glad you're fine with it. I am very thankful you aren't the one setting the prison sentence though. Nice to know, you personally, (apart from anything you've ever read in the Bible or prayed to the Lord about), think the guys who raped me weren't as bad as someone who killed a child before he/she was born.

Who has bad priorities here?
 
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#44
Abortion on demand is stain on society - no question there!

However, not all abortion's are done because it is the choice of the mother.
There are abortions that are done because the pregnancy is causing life-threatening illness in the mother.
These situations really do exist!
If anyone is wondering about my position in this, it is simple:
I have worked as an Intensive Care physician for nearly twenty years.
And it really does happen that mothers get ill for various reasons during pregnancy where either the pregnancy itself is the cause of the problem directly, or it exacerbates any one of many non-pregnancy related diseases.
And, it is not that unusual for an abortion to be required in order to save the mother's life.

As someone who is absolutely a Bible believing Christian, abortion for the reasons stated above has never given me any ethical qualms. If the mother dies the baby dies - it is that simple! Better the mother survive in that scenario and have a chance at a successful pregnancy in the future.
In later pregnancy, it is sometimes possible to jolly the situation along for a few days and then deliver the baby. In this situation, because the mother has been so ill and the fact that the baby will usually be premature, sometimes right at the extremes of so-called "viability" that survival of the baby is by no means assured.
However, if the mother will not survive unless the pregnancy is terminated and the pregnancy is too early for viability to be a factor, then sadly, the pregnancy must be terminated.
No one likes situations like these, not the parents and family, and not the medical and nursing staff involved but everybody in these situations understands the necessity.

Sometimes, mothers saved in this fashion will even go on to have a successful pregnancy in the future....

I just make this point so that people engaging in this debate do not throw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater...
Stats: of all the abortions done in America, less than 2% are done for the purpose of rape, incest, AND physical health of the mother. 1700+ abortions per day in America.

It also really does happen that sometimes women still won't seek medical help when their life is in danger and they're pregnant. The women I'm thinking of survived the pregnancy, had a healthy baby, and "celebrated" with radiation therapy to kill the cancer, after the baby was born. BTW, they lived and their babies are now 20ish. (one younger, one older. lol)
 
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#45
I'm glad you're fine with it. I am very thankful you aren't the one setting the prison sentence though. Nice to know, you personally, (apart from anything you've ever read in the Bible or prayed to the Lord about), think the guys who raped me weren't as bad as someone who killed a child before he/she was born.

Who has bad priorities here?
You got your comment backwards there ... I had rape at 40 years and abortion at 20 years in prison ... Only because abortion has recently been legal ... A slower societal change in punishment if it were to be made illegal would cause less turmoil and uprising of the feminists in the beginning ... I would later be fine with punishing abortion with life in prison ... And I also would have no problem with that being the punishment for rape ...
 
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#46
Then you're for abortion and murdering a child.
In the cases when it is the difference between the life of the mother or the life of the child, I truly do believe consensus needs to be reached. And that consensus is between two people only -- the father and mother of that child. It is up to them, who lives, and as long as the two agree, the decision is the right decision.

(After all, if the mother wants to die, instead of the baby, the father is the one raising the child. So one of the hardest decisions two humans can make really is between those two humans alone.)
 
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I believe in freedom of choice UP UNTIL THE TIME OF CONCEPTION!

There are enough easy and accessible ways of preventing pregnancy that if a woman decides not to use them, she has made her choice.

I believe that abortion should be legal only in cases of rape and a real medical threat to the life of the mother.

If a woman is raped, she should not be forced to be perpetually reminded of what was done to her for 9 months.

If a woman is told by her doctor that a pregnancy is likely to kill her [i.e. a tubal pregnancy] she should not be forced to die for the baby.
I am pro-choice too.

The chooses:
1. Keep the legs opened or closed.
2. Use contraception or don't.
3. Keep the baby or put the baby up for adoption.
4. Choose mother or child, (only in the rare cases when there is no other choice.))

Clearly, I am pro-choice.

The only choice I don't give is killing the child out of convenience or fear. (And killing the baby because of incest or rape, is killing the baby out of fear.)
 
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The "rape" scenario is too easy to fake ... A woman could easily lie about this in order to murder her child simply for her own convenience ... Even with rape, the conception has taken place and a child has begun ... That child now belongs unto God and mankind has no right to take it away from Him in my opinion ... Only if the mother is in danger of death ...
And you don't think anyone can tell the difference in the course of 6-8 weeks? My, you are so full of yourself!
 
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#49
I think that what gun control is all about.
Restrictions and safe places for guns. lol

You should see where my mind goes on the safe places part. (Back alleys and student union buildings opened up, just for the sake of those poor souls who just have to shoot their guns right now. lol) I am a problem child with my imagination, am I not?

 
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And you don't think anyone can tell the difference in the course of 6-8 weeks? My, you are so full of yourself!
What is your problem Depleted ? ... Have you not seen that I am not for abortion at any time, other than to save the mother's life ... I don't believe you are fully aware of my position here ...
 
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You got your comment backwards there ... I had rape at 40 years and abortion at 20 years in prison ... Only because abortion has recently been legal ... A slower societal change in punishment if it were to be made illegal would cause less turmoil and uprising of the feminists in the beginning ... I would later be fine with punishing abortion with life in prison ... And I also would have no problem with that being the punishment for rape ...
46 years is recently?

And, honey, you weren't around when feminism took hold. It had nothing to do with abortions for the first decade or so.

As I said, I'm glad society doesn't respond to your whims.
 
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In the cases when it is the difference between the life of the mother or the life of the child, I truly do believe consensus needs to be reached. And that consensus is between two people only -- the father and mother of that child. It is up to them, who lives, and as long as the two agree, the decision is the right decision.

(After all, if the mother wants to die, instead of the baby, the father is the one raising the child. So one of the hardest decisions two humans can make really is between those two humans alone.)
Yes, I keep hearing about this sad scenario, always used as an argument...

https://www.liveaction.org/news/abortion-ever-necessary-save-life-mother/
 
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What is your problem Depleted ? ... Have you not seen that I am not for abortion at any time, other than to save the mother's life ... I don't believe you are fully aware of my position here ...
My problem is your base.

Your base is entirely related to how you feel about something, and entirely unrelated to what God says about it.

You've set yourself up as THE teacher on all sorts of matters, without first being the student about it.

You've set yourself up as judge and jury with little active thinking on the words, the reality, or the moral response. Mostly, with no knowledge of what God says on the matter, and God says plenty. And what he says about rape makes me someone glad I don't live in the days of his law. BUT really not thrilled with man's interpretation either.

After all the difference between what God said, (either let your daughter marry her rapist, or the rapist owes you X amount of money, and your daughter should never marry) and what the US government says, (average jail time for a rapist is all the way up to 9 years now. Up from 4 months back in the days I was raped, which is just peachy keen on how people perceive rape as no big thang) has absolutely nothing to do with what you say. And yet, you talk and talk without any idea what either says. It's all about how you feel and how little you've studied the reality of what you feel from what is really happening.

Since you asked.
 
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#54
46 years is recently?

And, honey, you weren't around when feminism took hold. It had nothing to do with abortions for the first decade or so.


As I said, I'm glad society doesn't respond to your whims.
Again you completely misunderstood ... When I said abortion has been legal recently what I mean is "if it were to be made illegal tomorrow", then yes it was legal recently because the at that point the law would have just changed ... If the law were changed, then abortion would have been legal recently before, would it not ? ...
 
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What is your problem Depleted ? ... Have you not seen that I am not for abortion at any time, other than to save the mother's life ... I don't believe you are fully aware of my position here ...
I figured out this is my problem.

You pontificate and hold yourself out as the prime example of how to think and what to believe without ever consider what God says about it.

I tend to read what people say to find out what they learn about God, and then judge that along with my understanding (or lack of understanding, because many things I know nothing about), and then decide if the person is worth listening to.

Worth listening to is always linked to how much I can earn from someone, and the bar is set low enough, that I could step over it instead, but if someone can teach me something new every dozen posts or so, the person is worth reading.

You've managed, in the grand total of three days to prove to me, you aren't worth reading, and yet, I kept hoping that could change.

It might. But it probably won't, given you have such a high opinion of yourself. So, my problem. Not yours.

I should have put you on ignore two days ago, but I am a slow learner.

I finally learned. All I get from you is your opinions, and those unlearned, so ignore works for me. Feel free to keep being you. Nothing to learn here.
 

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I am pro-choice too.

The chooses:
1. Keep the legs opened or closed.
2. Use contraception or don't.
3. Keep the baby or put the baby up for adoption.
4. Choose mother or child, (only in the rare cases when there is no other choice.))

Clearly, I am pro-choice.

The only choice I don't give is killing the child out of convenience or fear. (And killing the baby because of incest or rape, is killing the baby out of fear.)
I agree with you in principle: but I can't justify forcing a woman or girl who was raped to live with a 9 month perpetual reminder of what was done to her. She had NO CONSENTUAL INVOLVEMENT in becoming pregnant so she should be allowed to decide whether to carry it to term.
 

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You cannot stop woman from aborting but u can put restrictions and provide a safe place..
plus men have it so easy to get into womans affairs. jeez
Nobody stops a woman from aborting other than herself and her conscience.

Abortion is murder pure and simple and if it was designated as first degree murder, hardly any woman would abort. But it is the MALE WIMPS in government and in the courts (in the Western world) that do not have the courage to call it what it is.

I don't know what you mean by "men have it so easy to get into womans affairs", but this is NOT simply a woman's affair. It is primarily the baby's affair, and he/she has no one to speak up for him/her.

As to "jeez" Christians should be using that abbreviated form of "Jesus" at all. Perhaps you are not aware of this.
 

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"Jeez" is NOT an abbreviated form of Jesus' name...


Nobody stops a woman from aborting other than herself and her conscience. Abortion is murder pure and simple and if it was designated as first degree murder, hardly any woman would abort. But it is the MALE WIMPS in government and in the courts that do not have the courage to call it what it is.

I don't know what you mean by "men have it so easy to get into womans affairs", but this is NOT simply a woman's affair. It is primarily the baby's affair, and he/she has no one to speak up for him/her.

As to "jeez" Christians should be using that abbreviated form of "Jesus" at all. Perhaps you are not aware of this.
 
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I figured out this is my problem.

You pontificate and hold yourself out as the prime example of how to think and what to believe without ever consider what God says about it.

I tend to read what people say to find out what they learn about God, and then judge that along with my understanding (or lack of understanding, because many things I know nothing about), and then decide if the person is worth listening to.

Worth listening to is always linked to how much I can earn from someone, and the bar is set low enough, that I could step over it instead, but if someone can teach me something new every dozen posts or so, the person is worth reading.

You've managed, in the grand total of three days to prove to me, you aren't worth reading, and yet, I kept hoping that could change.

It might. But it probably won't, given you have such a high opinion of yourself. So, my problem. Not yours.

I should have put you on ignore two days ago, but I am a slow learner.

I finally learned. All I get from you is your opinions, and those unlearned, so ignore works for me. Feel free to keep being you. Nothing to learn here.
If that is your honest opinion of my posts, then I thank you for being honest ... However, I really don't know what you've been looking at to reach your conclusion ... Every one of my stances I've posted on here has been in line with what the Bible says otherwise I wouldn't have bothered ...
 
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I agree with you in principle: but I can't justify forcing a woman or girl who was raped to live with a 9 month perpetual reminder of what was done to her. She had NO CONSENTUAL INVOLVEMENT in becoming pregnant so she should be allowed to decide whether to carry it to term.
So, what you are saying essentially is that the woman's feelings are more important than God's feelings ... You do realize don't you that the child is His before it is hers ? ...