Abortion questions...?

as a Christian I feel abortion is wrong, and it is homicide, and a cardinal sin.as an American I feel as if it is wrong to tell someone else what they can and cannot do with their body.also as an American I feel it is wrong to hold others to my moral and religious views, and make them have the same views by law.I would try and tell someone who wanted to have an abortion to not have one and think about it, but I would do nothing from preventing them from using their free will and making their own choices in life. I would also seek to keep legislation that allows for personal choices. You can educate right and wrong but you cannot legislate it.

there are legal homicides, this is one of them.I prefer not to hide behind the veil of denial, as we split hairs on "what is life?" or "what is a person?". I know some here are fond of that underhanded tactic, but I prefer to shoot from the hip. For me life begins at conception, and abortion is homicide, but so is capitol punishment, self-defense, war, etc.I choose free-choice in this one. unless you can remove the foetus, and raise it in a device of some sort, then the womans body is very much in question. she wants it out of her, she may not want it dead but she want no part of it. I do not see why some feel it is fine to force women to be pregnant. i do not think that it is. when, and where?
I think this was and still should be a state's rights issue, the Federal government has no real business in this one.Edited by Artemis Entreri, : I'll reply to Buzsaw and Subbie in the same one i guessEdited by Artemis Entreri, : i cant spel, or prevewEdited by Artemis Entreri, : ugh

yep, underhanded tactics, of talking about something else other than the original thought, it all this site is good for.EvC should be called "beating around the bush".Edited by Artemis Entreri, : No reason given.

I am not sure. preventing life from occuring (conception), is not consistent with destroying a life that already exists. Maybe I misread you, but I do not see the corelation.

not the kind i use.if there are those that prevent implantation, then i think that is an abortion too.

geez i go on vacation for a week, and this thread blew up. sure, why not. because one set is human and one set is not. i don't know, you know catholicism as well as i do. sex is for procreation or its wrong. that is the rule. BTW I am a huge sinner, according to this rule. I am not aborting any human life though. a lot, more for males i would guess, but all those halves added up cannot make 1 human; and therefore not 1 soul either. i hear you, i dont have the answer for everything. LOL

I always thought parents did the teaching when they were ready, not when the children were ready. My parents were obviously uncomfortable with the birds and the bees talk, and I learned about it in 6th grade.Knowledge is the key, and people start soaking it in from birth onwards, we are always ready to learn knew information. IMO teaching younger kinds about reproduction is the better method. I learn thigns on this site (mostly about how crazy liberals and the british are, but sometimes its more substanitive). i do not follow your reasoning, all this "just in case talk". I started driving when I was 14, and my dad was in the passenger seat instructing me. at 1st it was all back roads in rural Illinois (the roads are very straight and go on for miles). after a few times they let me drive to church on Sundays, driving is really not that hard, I think some 13 years could learn. especially if you can already ride a dirtbike or ATV. certainly? why not? I fired my first gun in Cub Scouts; I was around 10 years old. it was a ruger 10-22. like other topics knowledge is not the problem here. I fired my 1st automatic (an automatic czech AK-47) at age 11 @ with my uncle in Missouri, my 9 year brother was there and he fired it too. It was AWESOME! I didn't start hunting till I was 32 years old (september 2010); learned about guns/saftey and the 2nd amendment much earlier. My little brother (now 29.75 years old) still doesn't hunt; guns are not about hunting from our perspective.

so programs like keeping kids from smoking and drinking should be delayed until they are 18 (for smoking/dipping/chewing), and 21 (for alcohol consupmtion). maybe civics is a bad class, because you can't vote until you are 18 so you do not need to know about it. Since the penalty of most crimes is quite petty until you are 16-18 years old maybe we should not instruct people about the law until they are of that age?I am talking about reproduction here, the natural product of intercourse.I do not understand the logic of if someone isn't old enough to do something then they should be ignorant about it, especially in this information age that we live in. some kids learn to read before they learn it in school, is that wrong? or they can just have an abortionEdited by Artemis Entreri, : No reason given.

that was a typo i meant "a human" not "not human cells", i can't proof read my own text at all. i hate to make this assumption, but i guess you are being sarcastic, because I wasn't judging anyone. I made the assumption because you are usually spot on, instead of taking me out of context like this. this has to be a joke, we weren't even talking about that, i have no idea where this strawman came from.