Abortion is either when you cancel the events that may lead to a creation of life or ending the premature state of an already existing life form. Why is this considered moral by human standards and not frowned upon? — EpicTyrant
If a person doesn't like terminating pregnancies, then they need merely either not get pregnant, and if they do, not have an abortion. Anything else is minding someone else's business. — tim wood
The essay seems to have weight even beyond this seeming fatal flaw - that's why I'll read it. But if this is Don Marquis, then what was the other article? — tim wood
Clearly, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with abortion — Tzeentch
Abortion is very clearly a terrible thing. One denies a potential human being the chance to live. — Tzeentch
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he. — Ecclesiastes 6.3
I think Christians and Jews have a problem when opposing abortion.
Because if a child dies then they will go straight to heaven and be better off and not be exposed to sin and suffering. — Andrew4Handel
Your first quote omits an important line: — AJJ
By the same token you could justify arbitrarily murdering people — AJJ
No. I quoted one translation of the bible you are quoting another. — Andrew4Handel
No because this only applies to children who are not at the age to be damned to hell. — Andrew4Handel
I think from a non theological standpoint that creating a child creates far more suffering than terminating a pregnancy or being childless. From a theological standpoint it is hard to justify creating a child who will be sinful, experience evil and may be condemned to hell. — Andrew4Handel
This is an argument for not having children, not conceiving and then killing them. — AJJ
So it could be used to justify arbitrarily killing only holy people, then, which is also absurd. — AJJ
Your translation omitted an important line. — AJJ
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