How can a Christian be pro choice ??

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Has anyone ever met a pro choice Christian I did recently an episcopal priest when I heard them talk it seemed so strange to hear about how they love christ and the about how they are for abortion rights. The only pro choice people I have ever met where athiest it seemed so strange. Has anyone ever met pro abortion “Christians” before
 
I’ve encountered a lot of them online, and it baffles me too.

I was briefly ‘Facebook friends’ with someone from America, but we fell out on another sin - he tried to say a certain word was never in the Bible til two or three hundred years ago and people only added it for their own agenda…

I really don’t understand why any sort of Christian would say ANY sin is “ok”.
 
Adamski said:
Has anyone ever met a pro choice Christian I did recently an episcopal priest when I heard them talk it seemed so strange to hear about how they love christ and the about how they are for abortion rights. The only pro choice people I have ever met where athiest it seemed so strange. Has anyone ever met pro abortion “Christians” before
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Yes, I’ve encountered some. It starts with his/her views on contraceptives, going on about how it’s safer than unprotected sex. The pro-choice thing comes in if the contraception doesn’t work. Furthermore, he/she may continue by saying that the child will be better off “with God” rather than with unprepared parents (due to financial circumstances or emotional reasons) ergo send the child sooner.

That’s what I’ve heard from them. Frightening, really.
 
How can you be anti choice? Are you a sexist?

I am PRO CHOICE !!!
 
No Christian can be ‘pro choice’ and reasonably describe themselves as a Christian.

Approval of abortion is approval of murder, and that is fundamentally at odds with everything Christians are taught to believe.

There are no two ways about it.
 
Studer said:
How can you be anti choice? Are you a sexist?

I am PRO CHOICE !!!
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Not every discussion of “choice” involves a “woman’s right to her own body” and concluding “therefore you are sexist if you are pro-life and against abortion.” The women’s movement did not just happen in the 70’s; our early suffragettes were mostly against abortion. In our present “pro-abortion/pro-choice” world, more females are being aborted and I, a feminist, find that to be the worst kind of sexism.

I prefer a deeper knowledge of what constitutes freedom and choice. I find that most pro-choice people don’t want to consider 1.) what happens to the child, 2.) what happens to the mother in the long haul-psychologically and spiritually, and 3.) what happens to the father–(he either gets"off the hook" and his irresponsibility is reinforced, or his parental right is disregarded.)
 
I am pro choice. I converted to this position when I was 14, when my mother told me her grandmother died of a self-induced, illegal abortion in 1909 when she couldn’t face having a 7th child. I thought this was awful and still do. Because she died, her husband put their youngest two (including my grandfather) in an orphanage for a while; there my grandfather contracted an eye disease that affected his vision for life.

I do support adoption as an alternative to abortion. However, I think abortions should be safe, legal, and rare as women will always seek them.
 
Lisa1967 said:
I am pro choice. I converted to this position when I was 14, when my mother told me her grandmother died of a self-induced, illegal abortion in 1909 when she couldn’t face having a 7th child
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Do you suppose your great-grandmother was aware of what could happen if she had sex, ie pregnancy?
Lisa1967 said:
I do support adoption as an alternative to abortion. However, I think abortions should be safe, legal, and rare as women will always seek them.
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What would you say then to murderers, thieves, etc, I mean if we’ll always have them, why have a law against what they do?
 
Lisa1967 said:
I am pro choice. I converted to this position when I was 14, when my mother told me her grandmother died of a self-induced, illegal abortion in 1909 when she couldn’t face having a 7th child. I thought this was awful and still do. Because she died, her husband put their youngest two (including my grandfather) in an orphanage for a while; there my grandfather contracted an eye disease that affected his vision for life.

I do support adoption as an alternative to abortion. However, I think abortions should be safe, legal, and rare as women will always seek them.
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If you think abortion should be available, then you could never become a Catholic, and if Catholic, you place yourself outside the Communion of the Church by so believing.

I strongly urge you to consider the souls of the unborn who are wilfully discarded. They did not ask to be conceived. They did not ask to die. Their fate was entirely dependent on their mother. I feel sorrow for the situation your great-grandmother was in, but look at the results of her decision: it was worse for her family, not better. Two people died and a family was put through tragedy and trauma.

No child deserves to be killed at the mother’s request. It is not God’s will that we kill anyone… from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death. Abortion is a gravely sinful act always and forever.
 
DexUK said:
If you think abortion should be available, then you could never become a Catholic, and if Catholic, you place yourself outside the Communion of the Church by so believing.

I strongly urge you to consider the souls of the unborn who are wilfully discarded. They did not ask to be conceived. They did not ask to die. Their fate was entirely dependent on their mother. I feel sorrow for the situation your great-grandmother was in, but look at the results of her decision: it was worse for her family, not better. Two people died and a family was put through tragedy and trauma.

No child deserves to be killed at the mother’s request. It is not God’s will that we kill anyone… from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death. Abortion is a gravely sinful act always and forever.
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Actually, I was a Catholic for many years.
 
Lisa1967 said:
Actually, I was a Catholic for many years.
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Lisa 1967, remember the word of god is not up for self interpretation. You can go to a church that believes in what you believe and that does not make it right. Remember Paul said several times, to get to God, follow me, and follow what has been thought to us which we pass onto you via apostolic tradition.

I understand that male or female will say this is my body I can do with as I wish. And if you want to get a tattoo or piercing go right ahead. But when your caring for another life you don’t have that choice. Remember when you have sex, theirs a prob. Of you getting pregnant, so either don’t have sex or accept what. God is sending you with open arms.

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perhaps a lot are like i used to be before being called to the Catholic Church. i would have considered my view as pro-choice. although i dont think i would have ever had an abortion, i felt a woman should have a right to choose (in certain situations such as rape or incest). my reasoning was that their sins werent my problem to judge (cast the first stone).
BUT, now that i, read a few Catholic articles on abortion, realized the moral implications and the moral stand that the Catholic Church takes, i am pro-life. 👍
 
DexUK said:
If you think abortion should be available, then you could never become a Catholic, and if Catholic, you place yourself outside the Communion of the Church by so believing.

I strongly urge you to consider the souls of the unborn who are wilfully discarded. They did not ask to be conceived. They did not ask to die. Their fate was entirely dependent on their mother. I feel sorrow for the situation your great-grandmother was in, but look at the results of her decision: it was worse for her family, not better. Two people died and a family was put through tragedy and trauma.

No child deserves to be killed at the mother’s request. It is not God’s will that we kill anyone… from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death. Abortion is a gravely sinful act always and forever.
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I know scores of pro-choice Catholics. Some of whom are well respected in their parishes and considered highly religious. Some of these pro-choice Catholics even wear clerical collars or habits. I happen to be of the opinion that there is, in some circumstances, a greater evil in forcing a pregnancy upon someone than in terminating one.
 
Studer said:
How can you be anti choice? Are you a sexist?

I am PRO CHOICE !!!
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What if you are pregnant with a baby girl, and you choose to end her life? I would call that pretty sexist. Where is your zeal for that? It happens all the time.

Here in America we are upwards of 55 million aborted babies at various stages since it became legal 40 years ago. I am sure quite a few were girls.

Life is life. That’s it. If you don’t get that then I continue to pray for you.

And what is this “anti-choice?”
I like the pro-life - pro-choice dichotomy. Because life trumps choice. Regardless if the choice that is made to end life heck yeah I am anti-choice.
 
I think Mother said it best.

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish”

Blessed Mother Theresa
 
Eastsideteacher said:
I happen to be of the opinion that there is, in some circumstances, a greater evil in forcing a pregnancy upon someone than in terminating one.
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If the woman chose to have sex, she should be willing to face the consequences.
 
DexUK said:
If you think abortion should be available, then you could never become a Catholic, and if Catholic, you place yourself outside the Communion of the Church by so believing.

I strongly urge you to consider the souls of the unborn who are wilfully discarded. They did not ask to be conceived. They did not ask to die. Their fate was entirely dependent on their mother. I feel sorrow for the situation your great-grandmother was in, but look at the results of her decision: it was worse for her family, not better. Two people died and a family was put through tragedy and trauma.

No child deserves to be killed at the mother’s request. It is not God’s will that we kill anyone… from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death. Abortion is a gravely sinful act always and forever.
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And I know scores or Presidents and Prime Ministers/Kings that were anti-their own country. Just because one or two or scores of people in an organization or religion believe something that is inherently opposite and in the case of pro-choice Catholics and instant excommunication by canon law, doesn’t change the fact the there is a capital T Truth that say to us murder is wrong.

If a president decided that socialism the proper choice for the US it wouldn’t make it true. If a Catholic priest decides that abortion is OK it doesn’t make it true.
 
davidn87 said:
If the woman chose to have sex, she should be willing to face the consequences.
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For the sake of all “what if” rape cases coming, I will preemptively address this:

1.) Rape only entails less than 2% of American abortions.
2.) A significant percentage of those are people who got drunk had sex and then didn’t want to face the music so claimed rape.
3.) Yes, people do get raped legitimately (bad word choice but I can’t think of another) by rapists and it is a travesty. No, it is a justification for murdering an innocent soul.
 
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