(December 16, 2013 at 10:34 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: I would argue that the medical treatment of patients with ectopic pregnancies is a moral question of whether one or both lives can be saved.
The pro-life position would be that saving one life is better than losing two.
Except for the "pro-life" members who wanted Dr. Tiller dead.
That's right, he was performing medically necessary late-term abortions. Medically necessary. As in, both he and another doctor had to sign off on stating that the abortion was medically necessary. It's not like he was rounding up pregnant women and ripping babies from their bellies, as ex-Attorney General* Phil Kline and Bill O'Reilly always insinuated. And yet, some wonderful "pro-lifer" by the name of Scott Roeder decided to be judge, jury, and executioner and killed a doctor who was performing medically necessary abortions. Now, hardly any doctors in the country are willing to perform late-term abortions due to domestic terrorism, and women's health is at risk.
Even if they aren't medically necessary, it's still none of your fucking business who has an abortion or why.
*Phil Kline was the Attorney General of Kansas and made his sole mission upon being elected nothing more than putting Dr. Tiller in jail. However at his trial Dr. Tiller successfully showed that all the abortions he performed were medically necessary and was acquitted. Phil Kline, on the other hand, lost reelection and later lost his law license due to ethics violations regarding illegally accessed private medical records of women who had abortions.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
