(September 14, 2015 at 12:53 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: I wonder why you haven't addressed this post from a few pages ago, C_L:
(September 12, 2015 at 3:24 am)rexbeccarox Wrote: But I would have had the abortion anyway... I would have killed the unborn *fetus* anyway. I was just under four months along, and I already felt the overwhelming toll it was taking on my body. But that didn't even matter: I never wanted kids, even before the doctor told me they weren't feasible. I would have, sure, taken better precautions with birth control, but if I became pregnant healthfully, I probably still would have aborted. Deliberately.
Did I just get lucky? If so, how does that make every life "equal"? I mean, according to your theology, your god made me, right? All of me? Even the part of me that would have made the decision to have an abortion, healthy or not?
Oh, sorry.
I'd say you were lucky in the sense that you did not have to go through the procedure that you intended to go through anyway. I don't see how this does not make both your lives equal, though, as one person's luck might mean someone else's misfortune. Yes, I believe God created you, but I also believe in free will. I don't think that just because God gave me free will, for example, that everything I do is/will be morally good.
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