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There was an issue in Kansas last year, I believe, where abortion was not going to be covered whatsoever by insurance and if women wanted to have an abortion they needed to buy a separate plan all together that would cover future abortions. Kind of a "rape insurance". The statesman said that it is a woman's responsibility to plan to be raped much like we plan to get flat tire eventually and keep a spare tire in our car. What are you thoughts on this? Should women plan to be raped and impregnated once in their life?
If a mother's life is in danger, I have no doubt that the mother would want to sacrifice her own life to save her child's in childbirth. However, look at it from the viewpoint of the child. How would they feel? They lived while mom died. If dad's out of the picture, they go to orphanages and have a good chance of never being adopted. Never knowing the love of a family. Never knowing where the came from. Feeling the guilt of killing their own mother.My friend went through this and took his own life because he couldn't deal with the fact that he'd killed his own mother.
Why are we so quick to tell the mother "Your life doesn't matter anyway, so die."?
If a mother's life is in danger, I have no doubt that the mother would want to sacrifice her own life to save her child's in childbirth. However, look at it from the viewpoint of the child. How would they feel? They lived while mom died. If dad's out of the picture, they go to orphanages and have a good chance of never being adopted. Never knowing the love of a family. Never knowing where the came from. Feeling the guilt of killing their own mother.My friend went through this and took his own life because he couldn't deal with the fact that he'd killed his own mother.
Why are we so quick to tell the mother "Your life doesn't matter anyway, so die."?
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Surely not!
What bothers me most about that is insurance tends to make people more dangerous. Drivers with car insurance take risks they wouldn't otherwise. A study showed that if you wore protective gear on your bicycle, nearby drivers would come 3 inches closer to you on the road. Hospitals are more likely to treat babies with congenital defects (whose parents have insurance) than send them to more appropriate specialists.
I can only imagine that if a rapist hears women are spending money to prepare for him, this'll take a lot of guilt off his shoulders. Wonder what that'll do.
What bothers me most about that is insurance tends to make people more dangerous. Drivers with car insurance take risks they wouldn't otherwise. A study showed that if you wore protective gear on your bicycle, nearby drivers would come 3 inches closer to you on the road. Hospitals are more likely to treat babies with congenital defects (whose parents have insurance) than send them to more appropriate specialists.
I can only imagine that if a rapist hears women are spending money to prepare for him, this'll take a lot of guilt off his shoulders. Wonder what that'll do.
The fact that I believe that the unborn is human I think saving a life is more important than hurting someones feelings. Call it harsh or whatever. My view is it is MURDER.
If a situation came up where the child and the mothers life is at risk(tubal pregnancy) her decision is between her and God. It isnt an easy decision to make, and hopefully she will make the best moral decision. I will say I do feel for women who are in those types of situations. That is not an easy thing to deal with.
At the same time, wish a tubal pregnancy it is extremely rare for a child to be carried to term in the first place.
If a situation came up where the child and the mothers life is at risk(tubal pregnancy) her decision is between her and God. It isnt an easy decision to make, and hopefully she will make the best moral decision. I will say I do feel for women who are in those types of situations. That is not an easy thing to deal with.
At the same time, wish a tubal pregnancy it is extremely rare for a child to be carried to term in the first place.
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In order to save the life of the mother, then yes. It is ok to abort. Why? Because under the law an infant is not alive until it draws its first breath. Suppose a pregnant woman go into labor and she and the infant are both found dead. If the infant had not drawn its first breath, then under the law, it was not alive and therefore not murder.
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Suppose it is in God' plan that a fetus be aborted. Please do not say God would not plan that. It's putting a limit on God. Suppose that the aborted fetus would be donated to stem cell research and that research from that single fetus provided enough information to save the lives of millions of children who are/would have suffered from CP.
Are you tallking about a real situation or is this made up? We can go rounds all day about this. If a situation like that occurs it is between her and God. It isn't easy to make that decision. Grasping at situations where abortion is "ok" isn't really a good way to look at this. Yes, I do believe he unborn is human. I do believe abortion is murder. I am also aware there are situations that either way you look at it the outcome is not good. I feel for those people, but trying to throw out scenerios where I back down from my view will not work.
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Not trying to make you back down from your view. Just saying that you can't personally decide whose life is actually worth something. You can not say "Mom, your life is worth nothing and you deserve to die." The government can not say "You are not a real human being and you therefore you need to die so that this fetus in you can be a human once it takes its first breath."
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Even by the Bible. "If men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she has a miscarriage, yet there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband may demand of him, and he shall pay as the judges decide. 23 But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise." Ex. 21:22-25
This states that if she has a miscarriage, husband may decide the punishment. But if she is killed, THEN the penalty of life for life kicks in.
This states that if she has a miscarriage, husband may decide the punishment. But if she is killed, THEN the penalty of life for life kicks in.