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Gosh these women on the Dutch reformed forum w 4 kids, feeling guilty they have to have more after a few miscarriages, woman sick. Gimme a break. Be fruitful? Well everyone then hush hush get 20 kids.
 
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Shameless bump as we approach the anniversary of Roe v. Wade and what for many Christians is "Pro-Life Sunday"



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I am prolife as well. Though I did not vote Republican this last election for President. I didn't feel that the current President had the moral authority given his comments about minorities, disabled and other people groups to reflect my values. Neither did Hilary who argues for abortion on demand.
 

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The problem with Republicans they are not for the disadvantaged, they talk well but then they try to do away with programs like LIHEAP, cut welfare and medicare and medicaid and basically hurt the most vulnerable in our society which is why I will not vote for them.
 

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The problem with Republicans they are not for the disadvantaged, they talk well but then they try to do away with programs like LIHEAP, cut welfare and medicare and medicaid and basically hurt the most vulnerable in our society which is why I will not vote for them.

I think the topic here is pro-life, not the Republican party, but by the way, who could be more in need of protection than the unborn human? And you know which party thinks they should be killed right up until delivery day, so long as they inconvenience the mother. Some caring for the "most vulnerable" in society that is! Phooey. You are entitled to vote for the abortion party, but I consider it to be immoral.
 

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The problem with Republicans they are not for the disadvantaged, they talk well but then they try to do away with programs like LIHEAP, cut welfare and medicare and medicaid and basically hurt the most vulnerable in our society which is why I will not vote for them.

How are aborted children the advantaged? Do you hold that we should kill all unborn children because this is to their advantage?
 

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How are aborted children the advantaged? Do you hold that we should kill all unborn children because this is to their advantage?
There is no perfectr candidate but there is voting records and a pattern that is followed. No, I dont agree with abortion and look forward to when Roe Wase is ocoverturned
 

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How are aborted children the advantaged? Do you hold that we should kill all unborn children because this is to their advantage?

Its choosing between 2 evils. Either unborn babies get killed or born babies from poor ppl can die.
Can noone come up w a normal party?
 

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Its choosing between 2 evils. Either unborn babies get killed or born babies from poor ppl can die.
Can noone come up w a normal party?
Or how about compassion and common sense?
 

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How are aborted children the advantaged? Do you hold that we should kill all unborn children because this is to their advantage?
Dont agree with abortion, also dont agree with freezing to death because peole cant pay their electric and dont agree with people going hungary either. Definitely do not agree with not having afordable health care, I agree with Imalive that we need a party that cna address all of this rather than having to choose between a moral imperitive or a practical one. It is easy to see that there is no longer any sense at all in the political process.
 

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Or how about compassion and common sense?

How is defending the life of the pre-born NOT compassionate? How is it NOT "common sense?" To ME, securing that the strong may trample on the most fundamental and central of all human rights - the right to life, the right to be - simply because they have the power to do it is NOT compassionate, and to ME conflicts with "common sense."
 

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How is defending the life of the pre-born NOT compassionate? How is it NOT "common sense?" To ME, securing that the strong may trample on the most fundamental and central of all human rights - the right to life, the right to be - simply because they have the power to do it is NOT compassionate, and to ME conflicts with "common sense."
Way to ignore the other issues, from what I have written you know full well that I support right to life and agree with it.Just another tactic
 

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abortion is murder and I stand strongly in the pro choice corner



Psalms 91,

You gave your position way back in post #2. I still don't understand it but that's okay.

This thread is about Pro-Life. It's not about welfare reform or tax policies or comparative international economic systems: Its about pro-life vs. pro-choice. Here's the opening post:


Josiah said:

As slavery was the huge moral/political issue for some 200 years in the USA, abortion has become such in our time.

I'm solidly pro-life. It is my top issue in voting and it is a moral position about which I'm passionate. There ARE areas were I "give" a bit (in case of rape, if continuing clearly threatens the physical life of the mother) but I'm pretty solidly pro-life. I "inherited" this, I suspect, from my parents great respect for life that they instilled in me, their great emphasis on protecting the weak, and from my Catholic upbringing. My parents - one a diehard "bleeding heart" liberal, the other a ditto head conservative - both are strongly pro life (although obviously my mom votes contrary to her convictions on this point). As a teen, as a part of my schooling, I volunteered at a Birth Choice center (an amazing experience that had a profound impact on me) and I still contribute generously to some of these organizations.



My primary reasons are two:


1. Human rights. My sister (who has a Ph.D. in biology and does biological research as her vocation) has stressed to me that biologically, it is absurd to argue that the pre-born baby is not a human. She stresses that nothing happens to the DNA as the last bit of the toes exits the birth canal: in terms of species, what is AFTER the exit of the last toe is no different that what was before the crown of the baby's head began appearing outside that canal. While precise definitions of what is and is not "life" and is and is not "human" are not as precise as we'd all like, however we BIOLOGICALLY define such, birth has nothing to do with it. I believe that all humans are endowed with inalienable HUMAN rights simply as a function of they being HUMAN - and chief among these is life (the ONLY right that ultimately matters..... take that away and no other "right" matters at all, applies at all). Now, we can have discussions of self defense, just war, even capitol punishment (and I have related opinions there) but these are all extreme cases usually related to some guilt or physical threat presented by the one permitted to be murdered, and there seems to be consensus that HUMANS are being murdered in these cases. I think we purposely evade this by insisting that the unborn baby is not 100% a "PERSON" ( an argument taken hook, line and sinker from the pro-slavery position where Blacks were 2/3's a person) or when we people talk about the baby as a parasite or fully dependent - all that simply evades the issue that here is a HUMAN - the same species as we. IF we can deprive a whole class, an entire category of living HUMANS - regardless of their guilt or bad behavior or physical threat - deprive them without any due process - deprive them of the most important, most fundamental, most necessary of all HUMAN rights - life - then the most gross injustice has been made and all other innocent humans are threated and weakened.


2. Defending the Weak. The Bible says we are to speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, we are to defend those who cannot defend themselves, we are to be caretakers of the weak. Men - in particular - have often identified themselves strongly with this defender and providing role..... women - in particular - have seen motherhood as one of providing and defending role. We can see some of this even among animals. I reject the premise that those with political power may THEREFORE, as a FUNCTION of that power, trample on the rights, the humanity, the life of those less powerful or less independent simply as a function of their superior power to do so. One does not have some "right" to choose to murder simply because one has the political power to do it with impunity, to get away with it because other powerful ones will allow it. Remember what the powerful did in the perservation 0f slavery, in their "pro choice" political point that gave NO CHOICE WHATSOEVER to the one impacted: the Black man/woman. We must not fall to the morality that whatever those with sufficient power do to others is "moral" simply because they have the power to do it - and get away with it. Power does not equal moral. Indeed, it is a sad consequence of sin that the weak, the less-powerful are often trampled on by the more-powerful - and thus NEED our protection, our voice, our intervention. I realize this point makes a few women very uncomfortable.... since nearly the beginning of time, THEY were often the victims of this.... THEY were the weak, the helpless, the powerless and thus the victims of horrible things. Fortunately, very very recently, they have gained some power as the powerful (that's us white, middle class, property owning MEN) granted such. But IMO, because of that history, they ABOVE ALL, should be the MOST pro-life, the MOST sensitive to standing up for those with less power against those with more, they should be the LEAST 'pro-choice' (the powerful choose.... the powerless suffer). And indeed, I think women ARE a bit less "pro-choice" than men (although it's pretty close). We need laws, etc. to protect the weak from the strong, to permit civilization (so that it's not the animal "survival of the fittest", the prevailing of the more powerful over the less so).


Now, I realize...... there are enormous human, personal issues here. I realize discovering one is now the mother of a baby can be unplanned, unwelcomed - and a genuine crisis. And while most sex is consensual (and thus all know a baby can result), it's not always. And I realize that motherhood (before and after birth) has ENORMOUS implications - physically, socially, emotionally; indeed in every way possible - and that can be very difficult. Parenthood (mother and father) are perhaps the biggest and most difficult roles humans ever have. I don't gloss over that. I realize, too, that pregnancy and giving birth can be physically dangerous and are enormous physical efforts (and that - technically, that baby is a "parasite" - a LOT of parents will say that parasite continues for at least 20 years! Maybe a lot longer, lol, not to minimize the reality here). I'm not at all unmoved by those realities. And as I mentioned, I'm at least open to discussions when the baby is a real threat to the physical life of the other and perhaps also in cases of rape and incest. But, the simple reality is: sex tends to eventually result in a baby - and all (over the age of 8 at least - know that), all that is part of the responsibility to which we must rise. AND (most importantly), it means that we - as family and as society - need to "be there" for mothers (and fathers) struggling. IMO, we have far, far too much sense of abandoning parents. We need to "be there" as family, friends, community - emotionally, medically and physically (this is what motivated me so strongly in my years working with abortion alternative centers).

While I do not believe governments' role is religious or even primarily moralistic, it IS in part about protecting the weak, the defenseless, the voiceless (especially those who can't vote - meaning looking for human rather than civil or political rights). Just as I strongly rebuke all those years when the government of the USA lacked the guts, the civility to end slavery, so - for identical reasons - I rebuke the USA government today for lacking the guts and civility to end abortion-on-demand. This is the # 1 voting issue for me; I cannot and will not vote for any who is not clearly pro-life when they are in positions to impact that. And while I think it may take 200 years again (but hopefully not bloody war!), someday we will look upon this ugliness in the same way as we now look back upon slavery (or racism or sexism).




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Psalms 91,

You gave your position way back in post #2. I still don't understand it but that's okay.

This thread is about Pro-Life. It's not about welfare reform or tax policies or comparative international economic systems: Its about pro-life vs. pro-choice. Here's the opening post:






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I responded to your post, I like context to my positions and it is not a one thing you asked you got the answer which you did not respond to but I will leave this thyread to you just know I am pro life and no amount of twisting and eliminating other issues will change that as much as you seem to want to
 

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Psalms91 said:
I stand strongly in the pro choice corner

I am pro life


GREAT! You posted the opposite in post #2 and ever since you seem to be trying to focus your objections on OTHER issues and on the Republican Party (no idea why). But I'm glad to know you are now pro-life.
 

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GREAT! You posted the opposite in post #2 and ever since you seem to be trying to focus your objections on OTHER issues and on the Republican Party (no idea why). But I'm glad to know you are now pro-life.
I always was, not sure why I posted that, got confused I guiess
 

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I always was, not sure why I posted that, got confused I guiess

LOL
I didnt even notice. Ah well it both starts with pro LOL.
 

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Why I'm Pro-Life


As slavery was the huge moral/political issue for some 200 years in the USA, abortion has become such in our time. They are similar.


I'm solidly pro-life. It is my top issue in voting and it is a moral position about which I'm passionate. There ARE areas were I "give" a bit (in case of rape, if continuing clearly threatens the physical life of the mother) but I'm pretty solidly pro-life. I "inherited" this, I suspect, from my parents great respect for life that they instilled in me, their great emphasis on protecting the weak, and from my Catholic upbringing. My parents - one a diehard "bleeding heart" liberal, the other a ditto head conservative - both are strongly pro life (although obviously my mom votes contrary to her convictions on this point). As a teen, as a part of my schooling, I volunteered at a Birth Choice center (an amazing experience that had a profound impact on me) and I still contribute generously to some of these organizations.



My primary reasons are two:


1. Human rights. My sister (who has a Ph.D. in biology and does biological research as her vocation) has stressed to me that biologically, it is absurd to argue that the pre-born baby is not a human. She stresses that nothing happens to the DNA as the last bit of the toes exits the birth canal: in terms of species, what is AFTER the exit of the last toe is no different that what was before the crown of the baby's head began appearing outside that canal. While precise definitions of what is and is not "life" and is and is not "human" are not as precise as we'd all like, however we BIOLOGICALLY define such, birth has nothing to do with it. I believe that all humans are endowed with inalienable HUMAN rights simply as a function of they being HUMAN - and chief among these is life (the ONLY right that ultimately matters..... take that away and no other "right" matters at all, applies at all). Now, we can have discussions of self defense, just war, even capitol punishment (and I have related opinions there) but these are all extreme cases usually related to some guilt or physical threat presented by the one permitted to be murdered, and there seems to be consensus that HUMANS are being murdered in these cases. I think we purposely evade this by insisting that the unborn baby is not 100% a "PERSON" ( an argument taken hook, line and sinker from the pro-slavery position where Blacks were 2/3's a person) or when we people talk about the baby as a parasite or fully dependent - all that simply evades the issue that here is a HUMAN - the same species as we. IF we can deprive a whole class, an entire category of living HUMANS - regardless of their guilt or bad behavior or physical threat - deprive them without any due process - deprive them of the most important, most fundamental, most necessary of all HUMAN rights - life - then the most gross injustice has been made and all other innocent humans are threated and weakened.


2. Defending the Weak. The Bible says we are to speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, we are to defend those who cannot defend themselves, we are to be caretakers of the weak. Men - in particular - have often identified themselves strongly with this defender and providing role..... women - in particular - have seen motherhood as one of providing and defending role. We can see some of this even among animals. I reject the premise that those with political power may THEREFORE, as a FUNCTION of that power, trample on the rights, the humanity, the life of those less powerful or less independent simply as a function of their superior power to do so. One does not have some "right" to choose to murder simply because one has the political power to do it with impunity, to get away with it because other powerful ones will allow it. Remember what the powerful did in the perservation 0f slavery, in their "pro choice" political point that gave NO CHOICE WHATSOEVER to the one impacted: the Black man/woman. We must not fall to the morality that whatever those with sufficient power do to others is "moral" simply because they have the power to do it - and get away with it. Power does not equal moral. Indeed, it is a sad consequence of sin that the weak, the less-powerful are often trampled on by the more-powerful - and thus NEED our protection, our voice, our intervention. I realize this point makes a few women very uncomfortable.... since nearly the beginning of time, THEY were often the victims of this.... THEY were the weak, the helpless, the powerless and thus the victims of horrible things. Fortunately, very very recently, they have gained some power as the powerful (that's us white, middle class, property owning MEN) granted such. But IMO, because of that history, they ABOVE ALL, should be the MOST pro-life, the MOST sensitive to standing up for those with less power against those with more, they should be the LEAST 'pro-choice' (the powerful choose.... the powerless suffer). And indeed, I think women ARE a bit less "pro-choice" than men (although it's pretty close). We need laws, etc. to protect the weak from the strong, to permit civilization (so that it's not the animal "survival of the fittest", the prevailing of the more powerful over the less so).


Now, I realize...... there are enormous human, personal issues here. I realize discovering one is now the mother of a baby can be unplanned, unwelcomed - and a genuine crisis. And while most sex is consensual (and thus all know a baby can result), it's not always. And I realize that motherhood (before and after birth) has ENORMOUS implications - physically, socially, emotionally; indeed in every way possible - and that can be very difficult. Parenthood (mother and father) are perhaps the biggest and most difficult roles humans ever have. I don't gloss over that. I realize, too, that pregnancy and giving birth can be physically dangerous and are enormous physical efforts (and that - technically, that baby is a "parasite" - a LOT of parents will say that parasite continues for at least 20 years! Maybe a lot longer, lol, not to minimize the reality here). I'm not at all unmoved by those realities. And as I mentioned, I'm at least open to discussions when the baby is a real threat to the physical life of the other and perhaps also in cases of rape and incest. But, the simple reality is: sex tends to eventually result in a baby - and all (over the age of 8 at least - know that), all that is part of the responsibility to which we must rise. AND (most importantly), it means that we - as family and as society - need to "be there" for mothers (and fathers) struggling. IMO, we have far, far too much sense of abandoning parents. We need to "be there" as family, friends, community - emotionally, medically and physically (this is what motivated me so strongly in my years working with abortion alternative centers).

While I do not believe governments' role is religious or even primarily moralistic, it IS in part about protecting the weak, the defenseless, the voiceless (especially those who can't vote - meaning looking for human rather than civil or political rights). Just as I strongly rebuke all those years when the government of the USA lacked the guts, the civility to end slavery, so - for identical reasons - I rebuke the USA government today for lacking the guts and civility to end abortion-on-demand. This is the # 1 voting issue for me; I cannot and will not vote for any who is not clearly pro-life when they are in positions to impact that. And while I think it may take 200 years again (but hopefully not bloody war!), someday we will look upon this ugliness in the same way as we now look back upon slavery (or racism or sexism).





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... and now we have a Democrat Governor (of Virginia) arguing that abortion should extend not only until the last tiny bit of the toe naturally exits the birth canal, but after that.... It was predicted the "pro death" position would reach this point. And while a FEW were horrified by this, the thing that is getting this governor in trouble is NOT that.... NOT at all.... but rather that he had a person in blackface on his yearbook page 30 years ago... THAT'S what horrifies the public, THAT'S what may force him to resign.
 

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I responded to your post, I like context to my positions and it is not a one thing you asked you got the answer which you did not respond to but I will leave this thread to you just know I am pro life and no amount of twisting and eliminating other issues will change that as much as you seem to want to

You did a really good job of that by yourself. But at least we have everything straightened out and you are pro-life--for today anyway.
 
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