RE: Why is religion in the business of moral policing?
August 1, 2017 at 11:08 pm
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2017 at 11:32 pm by Dropship.)
(August 1, 2017 at 7:37 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(July 31, 2017 at 8:45 pm)Dropship Wrote: If you don't mind that your girlfriend killed your unborn child, I don't mind either..
You're being a cunt now. Nowhere in there did I say anything about being okay with her decision.
Sorry, I must have misunderstood, you told us your girlfriend aborted your baby and then you said-
"..her right to bodily autonomy trumped my wishes, and that is as it should be."
so I assumed you didn't mind her killing your unborn son/daughter.
Sure it was in her body, but you were still its dad.
(August 1, 2017 at 11:51 am)vorlon13 Wrote:(July 31, 2017 at 10:39 pm)Dropship Wrote: No sensible person such as me objects to abortions if letting the pregnancy continue would seriously endanger the life of the mother, or if scans show that the baby would be born severely mentally or physically handicapped.
But if healthy fetuses are aborted for no such good reason, it stinks..
Before ensoulment, though.
Doesn't that make a difference ??
Ah, but nobody knows exactly when a fetus gets a soul, for example it might be at the instant a sperm fertilizes the egg.
This story gives a possible clue-
When the young Jeremiah was told by God that he wanted him to be a prophet, he tried to talk his way out of the job saying "I'm a poor speaker and I'm too young to be a prophet, nobody'll take me seriously" (Jer 1:6), but God said-
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you...and I ordained you a prophet unto the nations"
Which suggests God has got our backs even when we're fetuses, or even "before" that.
