re: #57 Obdicut

It’s one of those really obviously inconsistent areas; pro-life people do not tend to object to fertility clinics, fertility treatments, or any other artificial method of inducing pregnancy (even those that create a ton of embryos that never get used), while simultaneously claiming that every pregnancy is the handiwork of God.

I don’t understand how, even if you do believe in a soul, you believe in a soul that God personally creates at every moment of conception. What about the 31% of pregnancies that miscarry? And if you do believe that there are souls for the embryos, why on earth would abortion somehow doom or damn them— can God really be foiled that easily?

Actually … some pro-lifers do object to artificial means of inducing pregnancy (the Catholic Church) as well as artificial means of preventing pregnancy, and of course, abortion.

As for the souls - of course if one believes that the embryos have souls (as I do), then it isn’t the aborted baby who is doomed; it’s the persons who brought about the abortion.

It’s no secret I’m heavily pro-life, and will spend whatever energy I have on promoting alternatives to abortion. I also do not want to see those who would choose abortion, dying or suffering, and therefore prefer to see abortions continue to be legal, because if a person wants an abortion, they will get one, legal or not. And being legal provides safeguards for those who seek the procedure. But I sure would be happy to see a day where no one wanted it - unrealistic, of course. But there you have it.