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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]States are literally forcing women to give birth to children of their rapist! Why are people not more upset about this. Now women in the military are also being forced to give birth if they are raped. Wtf
https://www.ms.now/news/abortion-ban-veterans-affairs-va
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It continues to surprise me that women are not more upset about the erosion of abortion rights.[/quote]

Maybe because we have a party that is allowing men into our bathrooms and women’s sports teams. [/quote]
? Is that really worth losing your the rights to your body?
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Women still have the rights to their body.  
Believe it nor not, there are many women who would rather run on their school’s track team than have abortions.[/quote]

I think you are vastly underestimating the number of women who will need abortion care in their lives. [b]Miscarriages are abortions[/b], you know. And you are vastly overestimating the number of trans people if you think there will be no spots left for non trans people on the track team.[/quote]

You are vastly underestimating how painful a statement that is to women who have suffered a miscarriage.   Cruel.[/quote]

I’ve suffered a miscarriage in the second trimester. I also had an abortion.

Miscarriage is a spontaneous abortion of a pregnancy. Elective abortion is the same thing, but planned. Nature - or depending on your perspective, God - is the biggest abortionist of all. There are far more spontaneous abortions than elective abortions every year, as 25% of known pregnancies end in miscarriage. Many pregnancies miscarry before the woman ever knows she is pregnant.

Why does anyone love God when God kills so very many babies, pray tell?

There is nothing in the Bible about abortion. You would think if God hated abortion, He might have spent a sentence or two condemning what was already a known practice of humankind back in the times that the books of the Bible were being written by men to control others.

It’s all a sickening political tool devised to inflame the voting base and control women. [/quote]

I’m a new poster. I offer this not from a place of judgment or condemnation but because I think it is important to look head on at the moral issues surrounding abortion given that the stakes are high.

While, to the best of my knowledge, you are correct that the Bible does not contain a verse expressly discussing abortion qua abortion, it is also the case that one of the dominant themes of the Bible is that obedience to God means repudiating the practices of child sacrifice that were common place in the Ancient Near East. The question, then, is whether the same principle that led to the condemnation of those practices is broad enough to reach abortion writ large. In my judgment, early Christian believers probably would have said “yes.” The Didache is one of the earliest Christian writings not found in the Bible, and it dates back to somewhere between 50 and 120 AD suggesting that it may well reflect the religious views of contemporaries of Jesus. It expressly says “you shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill that which is born.” In my judgment, this conclusion makes sense and aligns with both the thrust of scripture as I understand it and a visceral intuition that I have that the voluntary termination of human life is almost always wrong.

I am not here to judge or condemn you, but it sounds like you’ve got complicated feelings towards God. I’d urge you to spend a little uncomplicated time in prayer. God is love, and there’s no sin too big for Him to forgive. Good luck and God bless you. I’m rooting for you. [/quote]

Why do Christians not understand that the Bible informs your personal moral framework. It means nothing more to me than any other book of fiction. Quoting it as some kind of governing authority again means nothing to me. It does not govern our laws. It does not govern the behavior of anyone other than fellow followers of your religion. Stop referencing the Bible or the intentions of your God in discussions of law and rights. Your religion does not govern any of this. [/quote]

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