(June 3, 2021 at 4:46 pm)ronedee Wrote: But abortion is fine...right up to the moment of birth? At 121 million abortions worldwide, per year?
Humans are way more prolific at killing than God has ever thought of being!
You are equating the abortion of a fetus and the hidden death of over 200 children attending a Catholic residential school for indigenous people?
Actually, no I don't believe in abortion up to the moment of birth. Birth itself is not a rational dividing line between protected human life and something dependent on the mother for further development.
But what magic happens at conception? Does God endow the holy sperm with a soul that merely needs to enter an egg to become a complete human that will go do heaven, and how do you know this? I realize that Pope has spoken, and the religious right cry "What if Mary had decided to abort Jesus!" (although Mary already gave her consent to being knocked up by a deity, not that it really was consent between equals).
I see the abortion debate as being about the subjugation of women, more than a rational debate about how much value "potential" human life has.
