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Originally Posted by GolfSavage
DonnaKay, we (pro-life community) are not trying to inflict any religious beliefs on others. However, we are also taxpayers and citizens, and have just as much right as any other to want to see our tax dollars used in ways that don't violate our beliefs. No matter which side of the issue you are on, your support is based upon what you believe, whether Christian, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, Buddhist or whatever. Knowing for yourself what is right or wrong has nothing to do with whether or not you're a man or woman. I don't have to be a woman to know in my heart that abortion is the taking of innocent life and the wrong "choice", just as I don't have to be black to know slavery is wrong.
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GS, if you want to fight government funded abortions, fine! As you stated, it is your right as a taxpayer and citizen to support how and when your dollars should be spent. However, that is not the limit of what pro-life movement is doing - you are trying to make it illegal for a woman to obtain an abortion under any circumstances. That is, indeed, inflicting your religious beliefs on another.
I'm interested that you didn't address the other "life" issues I brought up. What about killing in war or by legal execution? Is that okay? Do you believe in abortion to save the life of the mother? Isn't that making a choice that should be left to God, as the Catholic church used to say? What about those birth control pills that prevent the egg from developing after fertilization?
GS, just in case I haven't said this recently, I am
personally opposed to abortion when it's used as a method of birth control. However, it is my opinion that the entire issue is too complicated and nuanced (see paragraph 2) for the government to outlaw it entirely.