Karl Popper on Religion

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(08-02-2016, 09:14 PM)taramarie Wrote: While I do not like abortion i do not think it is anyone's right to tell someone to live by a Christian belief. That is not a secular nation if you wish that to be law. At the same time there are instances where the mother's life is in danger while giving birth, rape cases as well as children who are raped and end up pregnant. Are we to save their lives if we are to value life? Are their lives as valuable as a fertilized egg/developing human? Or how about those who do not want to have a child, end up pregnant, are forced to have the child, then end up dumping the very aware baby out in the street? It is not as black and white as some make it to be. Case by case there are times where do you save the life of the mother (who may be a raped child), someone who may be unable to support the wee one, or someone who will die if she has the child. Death during pregnancy etc. People get up in arms about saving an unborn baby but do i hear of the same people weighing the outcomes as well as the wee ones quality of life once out of the womb or even the life of the mother who may fit into one of the examples i gave out? And is this not the same as imposing a value onto another like in the case of telling business owners to serve those they do not want to serve...or forcing people to marry who they do not want to etc? Or is your value more important than ours?

Forcing people to have a child does not necessarily mean that child will grow up in a loving home. It does not guarantee that the mother will not just abandon the child. Do you care about this too?

People are interesting, aren't they?

It is just a simple belief in the life of the unborn baby. I realize that the US law makes abortion legal, but I do not have to agree with these decisions. And, I do not plan to  support or vote for those supporting abortion.