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Percy Member Posts: 19960 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.4 |
A recent article in Salon magazine describes When evangelicals were pro-choice and the NRA was pro-gun control: A history of hypocrisy. About evangelicals and the abortion issue it says:
quote: So evangelicals were once pro-choice. The change in position is reported here by Max Blumenthal: quote: In other words, evangelicals flipped their beliefs in the 1980's, adopting the Catholic view on abortion and becoming anti-abortion. Faith and Belief, please. --Percy Edited by Percy, : Shorten title to what was originally intended - the beginning of the message body somehow became appended.
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AdminPhat Administrator Posts: 1977 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: |
Thread copied here from the Evangelical Switch from Pro-choice to Anti-abortionA recent article in Salon magazine thread in the Proposed New Topics forum.
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Phat Member Posts: 14965 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: |
Interesting article!
It sure turned a lot of people off to organized religion, however. Chance as a real force is a myth. It has no basis in reality and no place in scientific inquiry. For science and philosophy to continue to advance in knowledge, chance must be demythologized once and for all. –RC Sproul "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." –Mark Twain " ~"If that's not sufficient for you go soak your head."~Faith Paul was probably SO soaked in prayer nobody else has ever equaled him.~Faith :)
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jar Member Posts: 33182 From: Texas!! Joined: Member Rating: 4.3 |
It's amazing to me that this fact is not common knowledge. In Message 189 back in 2011 I mentioned that it was Southern Baptists that were at the forefront of decriminalizing abortion.
Edited by jar, : add link to a 2011 post
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jar Member Posts: 33182 From: Texas!! Joined: Member Rating: 4.3 |
The Roe v. Wade decision came down in 1973.
Before that time abortions happened but were not recorded or reported so there is no way to tell if the numbers were any more or less than post Roe v. Wade. Abortions were performed by anyone willing to perform an abortion; quite often people with absolutely no medical training. Abortions were performed in any place where it could be kept relatively secret but usually not in a doctor's office or a hospital. There was no follow up care or counseling. Abortions were a cash only transaction and totally off the books. Is that really where we want to see US society go?
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Faith ![]() Suspended Member (Idle past 233 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Yes I had one of those illegal abortions. I'm pretty sure they occurred at nowhere near the rate they've been occurring since Roe v. Wade.
No, I'd rather not see us revert to the earlier state of things but legally murdering something like, what, fifty mllion babies? Is not where we want to be either. Seems to me the solution would have to involve a lot of clear teaching about what abortion really is, make the women aware that it really is a baby they are killing, and provide services to help them through the pregnancy and delivery of the child, counseling on adoption options and help to keep it if they choose. These services are available now through many churches across the US, but Planned Parenthood pushes killing the baby and works against giving the pregnant girl or woman information that might lead her to reject that solution.
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ringo Member Posts: 18875 From: frozen wasteland Joined: Member Rating: 3.0 |
I compare prohibition of abortion with prohibition of alcohol and prohibition of drugs. The evidence seems to be that prohibition of alcohol in the 1920s did not decrease consumption. It did spawn organized crime. Similarly, prohibition of drugs in our time doesn't seem to decrease consumption. It continues to support organized crime and in addition it has spawned an "enforcement" industry that is very expensive for the taxpayer.
I'm sure somebody would be willing to teach you. Starting with the fact that abortion is not murder, not in the Bible and probably not even in your own mind, if you're honest. Do you want to execute young women for having abortions? And our geese will blot out the sun.
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Faith ![]() Suspended Member (Idle past 233 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Read what I wrote, nothing to do with punishing anyone.
I'm sure you've seen those ultrasound images of babies at twelve weeks? All human parts are there, head, torso, arms, legs, fingers and toes. They sometimes even suck their thumbs on those images. Their hearts beat steadily. So, let's see, if we kill it before twelve weeks then we can be sure it wasn't a human being?
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ringo Member Posts: 18875 From: frozen wasteland Joined: Member Rating: 3.0 |
Don't be silly. Murder involves punishment. You can't splatter the word "murder" around without considering punishment.
I've told you this before: I am not in favour of abortion. And our geese will blot out the sun.
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Taq Member Posts: 8469 Joined: Member Rating: 6.0 |
Do heads, torsos, arms, legs, fingers and toes make us human? If I get a toe chopped off am I less of a human? Edited by Taq, : No reason given.
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Faith ![]() Suspended Member (Idle past 233 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
I don't care about the legal definition of murder, I use it because it is the only word that clearly means killing a human being. Most women don't think that's what they are doing when they have an abortion, I didn't, so punishment is not relevant. Yet I had a dream about the child I would have had right after the abortion which showed I knew it unconsciously. And many women become deeply depressed after an abortion, which is another clue. They are deceived by this idea that it is not a living being, just a "piece of tissue" or whatever.
Since you aren't in favor of abortion please don't argue as if you were.
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Faith ![]() Suspended Member (Idle past 233 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Oh come on Taq. The ultrasound shows a living breathing baby, all its parts intact even down to the toes on its feet, its heart beating, even sometimes sucking its thumb, at only twelve weeks in the womb and an inch or two in length. It isn't a shapeless blob, it doesn't look like a fish, it looks like a human baby.
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ringo Member Posts: 18875 From: frozen wasteland Joined: Member Rating: 3.0
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If you don't think it's murder, don't call it murder. If you call it murder, you have to consider punishment.
I argue as if I was in favour of minding my own damn business. If you really care about how women feel, you won't make them feel worse about their decision. And our geese will blot out the sun.
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Faith ![]() Suspended Member (Idle past 233 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
If I really care about how women feel I will tell them it is a real baby so they won't kill it and have that on their conscience. And as I already said many women's depression says they know it anyway and suffer for it despite convincing themselves otherwise.
But I am also concerned about God's punishing a nation for such wholesale legal slaughter of the unborn, along with a growing list of other violations of His law. Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.
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ringo Member Posts: 18875 From: frozen wasteland Joined: Member Rating: 3.0 |
That's an simplistic attempt to generalize how all women feel. In reality, for every woman who regrets having an abortion you'll find one who is glad she did.
There is nothing in the Bible against abortion. The Levitical law clearly treats an unborn fetus as the father's property, not a human being. And our geese will blot out the sun.
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