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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]6th Commandment - “Thou shall not kill” I believe sums it up.  And don’t compare this to justified instances of self defense, etc. Seems these threads just turn into Catholic bashing. Pedophile priests and the bastards that enabled them have nothing to do with abortion and everyone knows that.  [/quote]

The point, of course, is who is being killed? The mother maybe; she should be saved (but many states are going to allow her to die). Is the live tissue being removed a soulless benign tumor at the point of removal? Is anything independently alive being killed? Some religious believe the "potential human" may have a soul, and therefore should be allowed to live off of the host female at any cost, even the cost of the hosts' life. Most people do not believe that, at all, and many don't even believe in souls, and find it theobabbling hooey. The early Catholic church did not believe it either. Many world religions do not believe this.

You have to accept that these are very strongly held differing theological points of view. Even Pope Pius said he didn't know and was erring on the side of a soul at conception -- no proof of a soul or of an independent life; just a strongly held religious belief. So the real question is, should the law of this country, where religious freedom reigns, adopt one religious point of view to the detriment of the majority whose religious point of view or atheist point of view vehemently disagrees with this notion of a soul at conception? Should one person's religious theory of life be allowed to interfere with the right to medical care of a person who does not share that religious belief and in fact vehemently disagrees with it? Even many Catholics (likely more than half) who would not get an abortion themselves understand and agree that the United States cannot adopt one religion's theology as national law or policy because our Constitution forbids it. The US Supreme Court does not get to decide the theology of this country.[/quote]

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