God And Abortion

Abortion is a very touchy subject to many Christians and people of other religious beliefs as well. This video explores some of the problems with the pro-life movement and the prevalence of religious opposition to abortion.

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Sources:
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1. "Pain and it's Effects in the Human Neonate and Fetus" - http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/anand/

2. "When Does a Fetus Feel Pain?" - http://discovermagazine.com/2005/dec/fetus-feel-pain

3. "Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States" - http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html

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[clip11]

In most cases, pregnancy will not harm the woman. I've always figured that if a woman doesn't want a baby, why can't she put him up for adoption?

[TaylorX04]

@clip11 Because in a lot of cases adoption can harm the baby. My family adopted a girl from China, and the conditions of the orphanages there are absolutely atrocious. So many children die in them from malnutrition and disease that in a lot of cases it would be far less harmful to have an abortion than it would be to put the baby up for adoption and let it suffer through months to years of life in an orphanage. Also, there's no evidence that abortion harms a non-sentient fetus.

[000SMITH000]

I am pro life and I am an atheist.

[TaylorX04]

@000SMITH000 Good for you, then this video doesn't apply to you.

[1n354a]

but denying that we are a part of the animal kingdom is silly...

[bignastydragon]

"The living, growing off-spring of two humans can only be a human being."

it could be a miscarriage. google 'miscarriage stats' a website i got from the top, allaboutlifechallenges (dot) org suggests a possible 40-50% miscarriage rate. so if we make things simple, half of human 'life' actually dies before it is even born, and this is with no consideration of abortion.

[TheCaptainLulz]

As Penn Gilette said - Its not pro-life or pro choice, everyone is both of those, its for or against abortion thats the question.

[000SMITH000]

@TaylorX04 I was simply answering your charge that "you seldom met a pro lifer who was not religious in some way." Well, now you have. By the way, there are thousands of us. Nice to meet you. 

[TaylorX04]

@realwomanhavecurves It's not a big hate towards god on my part, because I'm not making any arguments about how cruel or immoral god is, I'm just illustrating inconsistencies and contradictions in the character of this god, according to how believers often define him. Downsizing god is a funny way of putting it to me, when no one has been able to offer evidence that their god exists in the 100,000+ years that humanity has been around.

[realwomanhavecurves]

@TaylorX04 You have a point their i agree with you on that its a hot topic and people seem to always debate over god and his existence all i kno is that i believe in god because i have seem him work in my life i respect your choice of what religion or things you believe in. But i noticed that now a days people have a big hate towards god they try to find any litle thing or proof against him to down size him

[TaylorX04]

@realwomanhavecurves Free will, lol. Do you think God is all-knowing and always right? If you do, then explain to me how free will can exist with an all-knowing god that's always right. If God knows what we do before we do it and he's never wrong, then we can only do what God already knows we will do. Is that free will? Nope.

[realwomanhavecurves]

yes abortion interferes with gods plan because only he knows why he does things if a human isnt born maybe he knew it was going to be better off that way god cannot force us to do what he wants he has given us the free will to choose how we want to live our lives if we dont want to live it according to his rule then he sees that and judges you according to your acts and bad choices