Not all religious groups are explicitly anti-abortion. I come a very religious community that isn’t Christian, and our teachings are not explicitly pro nor anti abortion- they are somewhere in the middle and exceedingly complicated.

A thought that would clarify both sides of the argument:

It’s not about when fetus/baby becomes alive- it’s about when fetus/baby becomes human. And that changes from culture to culture and time to time.

The only political answer I can give is that it will up our birthrate-but that is only if we can stop all illegal abortions,which I doubt. Do you think we should have a higher birthrate?

Edit:

I feel like I should explain more about what I am thinking:

The general thought process of most people here is about whether abortion is murder or not- or potential murder or whatever.

Your body is made up of cells. This includes cells produced for the explicit purpose of sexual reproduction. Those cells by definition are alive.

As a result, the natural process of menstruation, or the failure to sexually reproduce, is in fact abortificant. The sexual reproduction cell died. It might even have been fertilized and it still died. That’s the way the body works. Does that mean we should be asking the question the body being a natural abortificant. No.

Instead, we should ask why it matters so much to us. The answer is that we have this expectation that whatever this being is will eventually grow up to be like us, human. So the question is not- are we killing it- we kill lots of things, like aloe, roaches, or E. Coli, and never think twice-but instead when are we killing another person.

That answer has changed over time. Note that some ancient cultures, like the Spartans, exposed babies that they thought were weak.

Medical Technology also makes that answer much more complicated- you could barely save a premature infant at 6 months in a high tech ICU sometimes. That’s just into the third trimester. The baby will fit into the palm of your hand- and I do not know what are the statistics of that baby having a healthy life. Considering the amount and the kinds of care it needs in NICU, should this baby be considered human, and why? Should a fetus at the same gestational point insdie the womb be considered human? Why?

The same argument could be applied in reverse about right to die…but I am not going there.

Religious ppl believe that the fetus is a real person at the time of conception. There are different timelines for abortion/prevention which range from the “morning after” to partial-birth. The arguments are: is the fetus a living being, able to be killed/murdered? and at what point in the process should it be considered illegal to end it.

I’m not a religious person, and I belive in using protection and living with your mistakes.

The problem with very religious ppl is they don’t believe in using protection(they are unprepared) because they want to only believe in “sex within marriage” Don’t get me started on why they wear white gowns in church….

P. S. I’ve been in an abortion clinic before. Its the same feeling you get when you step inside a funeral home. Weird.

God’s word says I knew you before I formed you In your mother’s womb….It Is Murder. Didn’t everyone start out like all the babies being aborted ? How many times have you seen a woman In her early pregnancy say Oh Great I’m having a fetus ? None ! They say “I’m having baby”. When you go Into a doctor’s office most have a growth chart of the growing stages of a baby In the womb ! Doctor’s have to count and make sure they have all the legs,arms,feet and complete body parts to make sure the abortion was complete. Thank God that Mary didn’t have an abortion,or we wouldn’t have a Savior…Jesus Christ.

Well, there’s the obvious problem, which is that you are ending a human life (or potential life). If you count fetus’ as human beings and you have a moral draw against murder, that would be enough to spook any reasonable person out of abortion (assuming that the two characteristics listed above apply to them), as abortion would be murder.

So, it could be argued that abortion is the killing of a helpless baby, and that you are punishing your baby because you made the mistake of getting pregnant. (I do not persoanlly share these opinons).

Psychologically, it can mess up the woman pretty bad. She usually feels guilt from the start, and if she decides to have kids later in life, the guilt can be worse. It can also mess up her relationships with men, and lower her self-esteem. As far as religious, that’s pretty obvious, if you believe that life starts while the baby is in the womb. This can be a non-religious view, also.

i think of the appropriate arguement against abortion publish by ability of people who’re by contrast is that this is homicide. for somebody who believes that existence starts off on the 2d of concept, destroying a fetus is purely that. the rationalization the professional-existence circulation is so fervent is via the fact, to them, status idly by ability of jointly as an abortion occurs is morally resembling status idly by ability of jointly as somebody is crushed to dying on the line.

Abortion is murder, pure and simple. So it depends on how you feel about murdering babies. God Bless you.