Can This Be Pro-Life?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It seem contradictory. In the case of sustaining a person's life when in nature he would die then aren't the religious right working against God's Will?

But God gave us the ability to invent life-saving machinery, so it must be God's Will that we use it.

And God gave me the skepticism to believe that "God" is a simplistic explanation for all we do not know, so my agnosticism is clearly God's Will (or should that particular manifestation be called "God's Won't"?)

Please forgive my snarky way of saying that I think it's presumptuous of people to claim to know God's Will.

How do you know it's God's Will that we invented life saving machines? It sounds like your way of rationalizing what God's will is. How do you know it wasn't Satan's Will to have this machinery to go against God's will?

I think of nature as being a part of God. In nature, animals don't survive if they are born weak or seriously injured.

Okay, I guess I was not clear: I can accept that people believe in God, although I don't quite understand why, but what I truly cannot understand is how someone who believes in a Being so majestic that He or She (or It) could have created this entire universe can be so self-aggrandizing as to believe that he or she (the believer) can possibly understand the Will of this Being.

Clarification: I capitalized to clarify when I was referring to the Deity and when I was referring to the believer, and to show respect for those of you who are believers. This time I am not being sarcastic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it against "God will" if you try artificial insemination because you cannot get pregnant on your own?

I don't know about other religions, but yes, the Catholic Church does not allow for certain fertility treatments including certain forms of IVF.

[Anonymous]

PP here - so we get back to the fact fertility treatments, birth control, abortion, and taking someone off life support that cannot feed/breathe etc. themselves could technically all be outlawed if we were using certain religious views to determine law. Now I admit to being a lapsed Christian, but in my memories of what I learned, I thought it was more of a lead by example to draw people to you/your religion than to change laws to force people to honor your religion. The other issue becomes in a country with multiple religions - how do you pick the teachings of one religion to turn into law without infringing on the rights of other people to practice their religion or not - if they don't follow any religion?