Why I Am Pro-Life

[bladevalant546]

on the other we have people who are "pro-life" right up to birth

And even this is a lie/pretext. That many of them "allow" abortion in the case of rape shows me they don't really think the unborn is a being with rights to life.

You can't morally execute children for the crimes of the parent, although the OT "morality" often gives the green light for that sort of behavior.

This isn't pro-life. It's pro-getting-to-shove-our-sexual-morality-onto-others.

My main point Deist is not to make a case either way of what is moral. I do not think I am qualified to judge what is moral or not beyond what is reasonable and rational. Personally I think there are reasonable arguments made on both sides. You made some valid points yourself concerning time of conception and what constitutes as a "person". However, I think renaming or trying to find moral justification is the problem on the pro-choice side. I think just being honest and stating we are terminating a potential life, it does not make it anyless of what the reality is.A fetus is not a tumor as the DNA is not of the host, it might be classified as a "parasite"; a fetus however is its own enitity regardless of the stage. However, with that said based on arguments presented by yourself and others there is really no moral issues with a fetus that does not have brain activity, that a termination is or is not ethically wrong. I personally think the pro-choice does not need to justify itself against the religious.

I know the religious try to present a moral argument, and they have some justifications towards it. Partial birth abortions well past 20 weeks is in my opinion infanticide. I think in the light of domestic tranquility both sides need to side down and examine this with logic and reason. For example, the pro-choice side has made great resistance to reasonable restrictions to abortion. They have had protests to the 20 week cut off. While the foot notes to those bills closed down clinics (which is wrong) I find the resistance to compromise to any degree as a stain to their cause. On the religious side, they apparently want to legislate morality. They make subjective meanings to “what is life” and force it on others. That is an undeniable fact, and they also seem uncompromising. I feel this topic in our country has not been reasonably discussed, and most are met with high emotions on both sides. I appreciate your civility DeistPaladin, I hope this clarifies what I am trying to point out. We need mediation here, we have differences that should build us not divide us. Feel free to ask questions, I am just sick and tired of division when unity will bring about progress.