If that is what it would take to save one child, I would gladly do it. I don't feel guilty about having wood furniture. If it was exotic rain forest wood, that would be different.
I plant trees every spring and water them all summer long. I have some monster wood furniture.
Steak, no problem. I raise cattle and do the things you want me to watch. T-Bone....YUM!
Gasoline, do I really drown a Polar bear with every tank? I use a lot of gasoline and love Polar bears!
I wear American made shoes shirts under wear and pants. The fruit of the loom plant is close by to me and I buy seconds direct from the plant. Carhartt plant is about 150 miles away. Redwing makes my boots. I have a clear conscience there, even my sweat shirts and coats are Carhartt.
I catch my own fish. Lake Cumberland has great big fish. I caught one bigger than my Grandson last year. I donate to conservation efforts and our lake has a fishery that I am a supporter of. I volunteer time there as well.
Every year I participate in a lake clean up as well for a whole weekend.
I buy my fruit from an old man who has a stand and his own orchard that he has worked in for 30 years.
Our landfill is state of the art. We recycle and the waste is used to make electricity.
You've completely missed my point- should people be
legally guilt-tripped for every action they take that could have a negative effect on other life?
So, you equate human life to that of a fish? (Reading from one of your own analogies)
If we're going to play "one of these things is not like the other," you equate a zygote to a born human?
I equate life to life- however, I never said that human life = fish life. That's an assumption. If you think overfishing, which will lead to barren oceans in the very near future, doesn't hurt human life you might want to chat to people and communities whose livelihoods and diets depend on fishing and fish.
dawny0826 said:
If that's the way you feel, that's your right but with all due respect, there SHOULD be guilt involved when you're ending HUMAN LIFE, especially if that life was created as a result of YOUR OWN negligence.
As for assumptions...
Should I feel guilty for my "negligence" when I was date-raped? Had I not miscarried, I would have gotten an abortion.
Not everyone get pregnant through "negligence."
dawny0826 said:
I don't care how intelligent these women are or how well they've thought the abortion process through. They're choosing to end life. Respectfully, I can't fathom how the value of animal life equates to that of human life. I respect your views but I really don't understand.
Because... they're both alive? Both wish to stay alive?
dawny0826 said:
Further, isn't abortion often an unnecessary and expensive procedure? Too often, the pregnancy could have been prevented if these intelligent women made intelligent decisions before they chose to spread their legs.
To some people, it is not "unnecessary."
Even though people are intelligent people make mistakes or bad things happen to them- do people deserve to be punished for every mistake and every bad thing that happens to them?
Respectfully, I don't think I made any more assumptions than the assumptions made in the post I was responding to.
What assumptions did I make in my previous post?
Reverend Rick said:
I think you have it backwards, some women are lacking respect and faith for humankind.
I really can't even think of what to say to that. My mind is just screaming "SEXISM" over and over again...
Clinics that provide abortions are providing a service for women who choose to have an abortion. They're not trying to convince women to do so.
