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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a pp and am not Catholic.  I have been happily married to my first husband for many years and am currently a grandmother.  I have no feelings of guilt relating to behaviors frowned on by the church.

My objections to the Catholic Church come from their incessant attempts at blurring the line separating church and state.  These include their history of ignoring abuse of children, as well as trying to halt distribution of birth control and working to criminalize abortion, including in pregnancies of children as young as 10 resulting from incest and in trying to force women to carry a pregnancy even at risk to her own health.

It is one thing for a church to ask its own followers to adhere to its rules, it is another to force your religion down the throats of the of the rest of us.[/quote]

I have to disagree with you.  I only respect being pro-life if you are willing to work at trying to criminalize abortion.  Otherwise, it’s just dogma, and I don’t believe that you believe in it.

Imagine that they set the time frame to something that you don’t agree with, like say, two years old.  Let’s say that people said that an infant doesn’t have a personality and isn’t really fully human as a toddler.  So, on your way to work, you see people walking hand in hand with their toddler on their way to have them euthanized.  You would fight against that, right?  You would try to make it illegal, right?  
So, if people really believe that a fetus is the same as a human life, and that having an abortion isn’t any different than euthanizing an older child, then they SHOULD be fighting against it.

Not many people are really doing this.  So, I don’t believe they really think of a fetus as a child.  So, what’s it all about?  Why would you go hold a sign once a year, then ignore it the rest of the time?

The problem isn’t the few people who are working to make it illegal.  The problem is the tens of millions that kind of half-heartedly follow without considering the consequences.  [/quote]

All of society agrees that it’s wrong to kill children, but there is no such consensus that abortion is wrong.  In this situation, you are imposing your religious beliefs on others.  And, what’s next?  When are you going to start criminalizing forms of birth control you don’t like (or maybe all birth control) and in vitro fertilization?  [/quote]

1). You don’t know what all of society agrees on.  You happen to have a popular opinion.  That doesn’t mean that everyone agrees with you.

2).  You are misunderstanding m post.  I am not pro-life.  I also don’t think that most pro-life supporters believe what they profess to believe.  (ie.  that a fetus is a child).  I think that most just like the opportunity to control and shame young women.  [/quote]

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