After birth abortion?

[bennyboy]

I don't think that this conflicts in the way that you think (or says what you think it says)!    However, I believe that an unborn baby is alive and that abortion is killing something.   Don't you?    I wouldn't have thought that this would controversial.

Killing isn't intrinsically bad. Every time I make bread, I bring to an end the lives of maybe 20 billion yeast cells, probably about as many human beings as have ever lived.

I'd say in the end, NOTHING can be called intrinsically bad, nothing at all, not killing, not suffering, not anything. It is our response to things and to events which determine morality

I would suggest that if something is sufficiently developed to be given a name, and to be thought of as an organism worthy of a name, then this means we have a sufficient emotional attachment to the thing to feel its loss, and probably will want to protect it.

Cow XJ287, certified organic and parasite free? Hop on the bun, mother-fucker, it's your time to go. Bessie, the beloved milk cow who was so docile that your mother used to let you ride her around the back yard? No, Bessie, nooooooo. Daddy, you just CAN'T!

A zygote, nothing more than a bundle of cells? No. A zygote, prayed for daily by hopeful parents-to-be, named Sarah or John already and with a nursery lovingly arranged and waiting to be painted pink or blue? Kill it, and go to hell!

The problem quite obviously is the conceptual overlap. Some Catholics would say that God has a name waiting for a baby as soon as He puts a soul into it at conception, even if the mother hasn't identified that name yet. Some atheists would say-- no brain, no memories, no capacity for suffering, no problem at all. You might as well name a tumor.

I think the solution is not to make atheist mothers act according to Christian doctrine. Christians should have enough faith to say, "Kill them all, and let God sort them out." Surely, a truly good God will have a loving place reserved in his bosom for the many little Sarahs and Johnnies who are aborted each year, by far the majority of them due to a natural dysfunction in the combination of the DNA, in attachment to the wall of the uturus, and so on. How about worry less about the potential little people that might have come into being, and focus a LOT more effort on ending poverty for the little people who are already here. How about maybe throwing a couple prayers up to God that priests will stop raping thousands upon thousands of children each year?

As for "after birth abortion?" Ewwwwww!