seraphprincess: I feel like abortion is wrong, because an innocent unborn baby loses his or her life, but there are exceptions where abortion is a necessary evil. In cases of rape or incest, a young girl getting pregnant at too young an age, like a pre-teen, the birth putting the mother's life in danger, (like if she is too young, girl should not have had sex in the first place, parents should teach their kids to behave and respect themselves and God's laws of purity, teach them abstinence, to wait for marriage.) The mother is guilty of the sin of having sex outside of marriage (fornication) or if she was raped it is not her fault.
How is this evil ever necessary? Are you suggesting that taking the life of her unborn child will heal the hurt of the rape or incest? The problem here is that your referring to child birth and rearing as if it's a problem and as if the conception itself is a bad thing when clearly Scripture teaches that each baby is a blessing of Yahweh. Pslam 127:3-5 "Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate." If the mother's life is in danger she should still have to go through with the birth if there is a high likelihood that the baby will live because the baby has longer to live.
What if it is a married couple and they are afraid of having a severely deformed, diseased water-head baby that wil only live a few hours?
That type of fear should never determine our actions. The Bible says fear not, but have faith and hope.
if the baby will be severely messed up and deformed mentally challenged handicapped retarded diseased, perhaps it's better not to be born.
That's the type of thing depressed or suicidal people say. Job said that he should never have been born to God while he was whining to him for his miserable life and what did we learn from that story? God made things the way they were for a reason and all things work together for good to those that love Him.
I'm not saying all handicapped people should be aborted, there are a lot of handicapped people that when god shuts one door he opens another door, they have great talents and postive attiude to make up for what they lack and can do great things despite, or maybe because of their handicap. THere is a man born with no eyes and he can't walk in a wheel chair he plays trumpet and is in a marching band his father pushes him in his wheelchair. He plays awesome music on the trumpet or trombone.
I am mentally ill myself and i had a lot of difficulty at birth, was a premie baby. I am an artist, i draw and paint and do some writing.
Sometimes there are people born without arms or legs. Or they are born as conjoined twins. There are babies born to drug addicted mothers and alcoholic mothers, born addicted. I think they should find these women and sterilize them. They don't desrve to have children.
Please realize how hateful what your suggesting is. According to the Bible none of us deserve to have children, or any of the good things God gives us. What we deserve is to spend eternity in hell. I hope and pray you believe that.You won't find any nuns sterilizing people. That's because they love God and so they understand that unconditional love means loving people that are unlovable. Which turns out to be everyone at some point.
I think there's nothing wrong with having an abortion in special cases like these. Rape, incest, which usually is one family memeber raping or seducing another family memeber, the mother's life in danger, deformed messed up water head babies or babies that will die anyway a few hours or days after birth, well that's it. It's just common sense. God is merciful and he forgives. Women who have abortions have a difficult life-changing heart breaking decision to make, and they bear guilt and shame for the rest of their lives.
I should say the obvious here and state that having their baby rather than aborting will avoid the guilt and shame for the rest of their lives. It's interesting that many mothers that go through with there pregnancies grow much fonder of their children then they expected and women are much more likey to say no to abortion after seeing a sonogram of that cute little innocent thing living inside them.
I think it's also a sin to have too many children.
This verse is in stark contrast to what you are saying. Please read the Bible before making a belief like that. Psalm 127: 3-5 "Behold, children are a heritage from Yahweh, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate."
It may have been ok in past generations, but this is the year 2011.
Children are not bad. What your saying is very hateful towards yourself and the rest of humanity.
Modern day parents should really limit how many kids they have, for the sake of qulaity of living, for the Earth, environment having enough food and resources to go around.
It's a lie of rich people that overpopulation exists! Believe me I took college level environmental science and was top of my class! The resources are abundant, including everything that is needed for life, water, food, space etc...
4 kids should be the limit for todays families. I don't understand why a family would want 8 or 10 kids. The world is dangerously overpopulated with human beings. We are running out of space. The animals habitats and wild places are being rapidly destroyed.
That's not because we're running out of space, that's because people like to go to remote places for luxury.
SO many animals are endangered and many are going extinct.
That's because of pollution, overhunting, and habitat destruction like you said.
It's because they do not have enough natural habitat in their ecosystem, because humans are taking over.
In Florida it is especially bad the way consturction destroys wild places. What is worse is sometimes they build strip malls and shops, but then they are left empty and no ones takes up buisnesses in them. There are newly built houses with no one in them, they remain empty, sometimes homeless people move in, but when the police find out, they run them off.
