Can a Christian support Abortion?

[vanilla]

*Originally posted by Polycarp *
**Right – the woman’s working at a job that her neighbor considers immoral, so she won’t watch the kid, because that’d be “condoning immorality.” So she effectively forces her to quit the job by refusing to babysit. Now that’s an excellent witness to something, but I’ll be damned before I’ll call what it’s a witness to “Christianity”! **

Thank you, Polycarp.

[Stratocaster]

*Originally posted by DaddyMack *
**Bob Cos

In your sarcasm were you referring to my references to the RCCs support of pedophiles or were you just emphasizing how they are not thieves but lovers of their neighbors.**

OK, since providing you an actual quote immediately above my comments was ambiguous, let me explicitly state that this is what I was referring to:

**As for the Catholic Church throughout history they have been wrong, wrong, wrong about anything of social significance.

**Right. I was disputing the evil nature of the pedophilia within the church. Of course, that’s what I was doing.

Shall I explain again what’s wrong with a categorical statement such as this, without sarcasm so it’s easy to understand?

[Stratocaster]

*Originally posted by Polycarp *
Because, Bob, it’s the standard of jurisprudence that a given right held by a given person does not necessarily, and in the absence of some strong separate assertion, does not at all, impose a duty on a third person to put him or herself out to assure that given right. The general jurisprudence regarding “Good Samaritan” laws makes rendering assistance to someone needing help voluntary (except in Alaska).

I guess we’ll have to disagree. Good Samaritan? This is not a case of a person being permitted to passively refuse a duty, or even to permit an act to occur without interfering. This is a person actively seeking that another life, the life of a blameless person, be destroyed. This is someone actively ensuring that another person be dismembered and killed. For me, this is significantly different than refusing to donate a kidney or to adopt a dead sibling’s children. The distinction is real and important. BTW, why would the fact that this is embedded in law, even if that were true, be the most important element of the debate for you? Interesting.

It is a singular situation, both in law and ethics, I believe. Just my opinion.

[DaddyMack]

Bob -
That statement was out of order and would constitute a different debate.

Anyway what about EX 21:22. God distinguishes between a fetus and a human. Also as Badtz Maru has pointed out there are scriptures that equated breathing with life. Gen 2:7 Man did not become a living soul until God breathed into him the breath of life. If God says a fetus is not human why should you, a Christian, think otherwise? Apparently my reckless statement about the RCC has allowed you a convent excuse not to address these verses.