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Abortion a product of loose morals
Can you be a feminist and oppose abortion in all circumstances? Can you be a person of faith and support abortion in some circumstances?
The debate on abortion in this country has been blown out of all proportion and the two sides have taken an untenable stand one way or the other. I don't think any issue can be defined clearly in terms of black or white while ignoring the vast gray area that separates the two. Of course, no one denies that rampant abortions are bad, but they have their roots in our liberal and rampant sexual apetite, something that society glorifies. So much of our own thinking from the age of puberty to old age is centered around sex. Fifty percent of the commercials in the media have to do with sex and looking sexy. Teenage boys and girls are considered abnormal if they don't have a boyfriend or girlfriend by the time they are 13. The sanctity of sex has been replaced by raw animal instinct. Sex has become simply another physical need, like hunger for food. When hormones are raging, the general attitude is to find someone and release them. Perhaps, I am old fashioned but I believe that the act of sex is the most intimate act between two people and I cannot understand how such intimacy can be practiced by two people without any feelings of love and commitment. Obviously, I am against prostitution because I cannot think of sex as a product for sale. Clearly, what I am driving at is that abortion is a natural outcome of such loose moral values. It leads to mistakes and not everyone has the means to face up to a mistake that lives for the rest of one's life. A consequence of the warped moral values in this country is that life has become cheap, and dispensable. We still value capital punishment and, the most illogical and shameful practice of carrying weapons, ostensibly to protect oneself, but actually to mete out instant justice. In effect this means that anyone stealing something can be killed instantly, as happened in Memphis some years ago when a car thief was shot in the act of stealing and instantly killed. And the killer was deemed a hero!! In no civilized country do we have this kind of vigilante justice or, for that matter, death sentence for simple robbery. How can we criticize the Muslim nations for practicing their Shariat laws when we go beyond the law and shoot people in the act of robbery or trespassing? If adult life is so cheap why is infant life so precious?
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Arun Gandhi
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May 18, 2010; 10:35 AM ET
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Posted by: APaganplace | May 24, 2010 9:41 AM Actually, abortion was a massive, widespread, criminalized and deadly black market industry before contraception (and education about it was common,) and most abortions were and still often *are* performed because someone equated *unapproved sex and pregnancy* with 'loose morals.' Posted by: APaganplace | May 24, 2010 9:28 AM We live in a natural universe and not in a faith universe. Nature continually acts in a cruel fashion without any regard for individual lives. Posted by: norriehoyt | May 22, 2010 8:42 PM Sir, you seem to think that all unwanted pregnancies are the result of drunken one-night stands where Thing 1 and Thing 2 don't even bother to exchange first names. Posted by: lepidopteryx | May 19, 2010 4:36 PM The comments to this entry are closed.
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Therefore, from the point of view of natural philosophy and the example set by the creation itself, there would seem to be no cause to object to the practice of abortion
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For your information, married women have abortions. Unmarried women in committed relationships have abortions. Promiscuous women have abortions. Rape victims have abortions. Women who WANT a baby, but have health problems caused by the pregnancy have abortions. Women who WANT a baby, but are carrying a baby with defects too severe to allow it a decent life have abortions.
Women have abortions for many reasons. manyof which have nothing to do with your perception of what their sex lives are like.
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Frankly, I have moral qualms about insisting others create entire lives for their sense of religious control over other people's sex lives.
I have moral qualms about insisting children must come into a world and live lives that began in shotgun weddings or desperate unplanned random circumstances or out of compulsion or coercion of women, or out of rape, or out of situations that will make them objects of resentment for ruined lives and shattered dreams.
I have moral qualms about people valuing the *use* of people as objects for political and sexual control, and not valuing actual living people.
I have moral qualms about theocrats using this as part of their agenda that 'small government' should mean that government should do nothing *but* control people's personal, sexual, and spiritual lives, ...but basically saying: 'Go ahead and let the corporations poison, starve, and make homeless *all* the babies, for all we care...'
I have moral qualms about people like you using this issue to say 'Women have 'loose morals' and must be controlled, incapable of making choices for themselves as they are.'
I have moral qualms about people ignoring the history of all the other dark places pronouncements like that have taken us.
I have a lot of moral qualms on this issue, sir. But you won't get morality out of people by removing their own 'moral agency.'