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Abortion Reply 1


 

From: Chuck Kovalik

You really struck out on this one: for one, to accuse an entire religion and political affiliation of anti-feminist beliefs? Wow. You seem to be missing the entire argument of abortion.

Should people, regardless of gender be able to shirk responsibility for their actions through infanticide? Or should we take responsibility, and realize that thousands of couple out who can't have a child of their own want one desperately. See how wrong this seems when you stop trying to confuse the argument with fickle religious and political arguments? The fact is, it takes two to have sex. 1 man and 1 woman. Except in the case of rape, the choice is entirely in the woman's hands: they are the gatekeepers.

In modern times, where there are dozens of reliable methods of contraception, abortion is simply irresponsible and unnecessary. I was shocked and angered last week when I heard legal action was pending for a woman who refused to undergo a Cesarean section, resulting in the death of the baby. Because she made the difficult decision between her life and the baby's, she is persecuted, while millions of people all over the world can just end this life they created on no more than a whim.

 

Author's Reply

I approach abortion not so much as a right-to-life issue as it is a morals/values/ethics issue. You cannot legislate morality or ethics. To solve the abortion problem, we must restore a sense of morality and a set of values.

How to do this without evoking a particular orthodoxy or dogma is the problem. How to do this without favoring one religion over another I have no idea at this time.

Yes, contraception pills and devices are available but primarily only in industrialized countries. Countries with high birth rates and mostly Catholic are not officially allowed to use any contraceptive devices. Sex is only for procreation not pleasure. The Church is firm on that but yet the Vatican had little to say about child abuse by priests.

 Do you think that if females were allowed to hold positions of power within the Catholic church that contraceptives would remain illegal?

 

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