and this topic is obviously lost on all of you who cant even concede that an embryo is not a baby, a fetus could be considered a baby, but just as easily might not be, and those who wont accept that after the sperm has entered the body, for the next 72 hours, using medication to block the egg from fertilizing isnt abortion.
im beyond done with this.
Well iamme, I pray you’ll eventually believe in the sacredness of life from conception. A baby is a person, just an undeveloped and unborn person, from the time he or she is conceived. A 5-day-old person, a 7-year-old person, a 12-year-old person, are all still developing, but they’re still persons.
True, it can take the zygote, a PERSON, up to 72 hours to implant onto the uterine wall. But he/she is still sacred and must be respected and protected.
It is immoral to prevent the fertilized egg, a PERSON, from being able to implant onto the uterine wall. The chemical that does this is an abortifacient … this is an act of abortion – which is murder.
So many women do not realize that abortifacients in their birth control pills are killing their babies.
If your husband cheated on you (which is obviously immortal, but not illegal) – would you feel justified in killing him, or hurting him in a grievous way, simply because you’re hurt and mad? In other words, you may be a victim of injustice (etc.) – does that justify your making him one?
If you’re tired, perhaps sick, after a very difficult day, and your children are noisy and ignoring your needs for quiet or for help, and you’re feeling “victimized” by them or merely by your bad day, is it moral (though not illegal) for you to scream and cuss at them, perhaps belittle them, thus victimizing them emotionally? I hope you don’t say yes to that one – too many people justify their actions nowadays based on how they feel, rather than what is right before God.
an embryo is a after effect of rape, not a bystander.
and you dont tell someone its wrong to abort a baby caused by rape, because 1) you werent the one raped and impregnated, and you are not the one who judges. even if they ask, and you know you hold volatile archaic beliefs, then you should have the common sense or at least the decency to say, i cant give you an unbiased answer, so i should say nothing.
People who react so strongly against the moral teachings of the Church may be volatile, but the teachings themselves are not.
“Volatile” means unstable, explosive, impulsive, changeable. The teachings of the Church have remained constant since her beginning.
“Archaic” means belonging to ancient times. The Catholic Church, the church Jesus founded, is not archaic, because the truths belong topeople of ALL time, not just to the “olden days.” Jesus taught us one set of truths – He is the Way, the Truth, the Life, and His truths do not change. Many people like to believe they do, though, because they are easily swayed by the winds of secularism, modernism, and selfishness. “How we feel” becomes more important than love and than what God wills for us.
Until the last century, all Christian faiths taught that abortion is gravely immoral – in the words of the Anglican Church (during its Lambeth conferences in 1918 and 1930, abortion is “anathema”). PEOPLE, not teachings, become volatile, and that that is what has happened this past century concerning many moral standards, including sexual and reproductive issues.
Here is a summary of what the Church teaches, from the
Catechism of the Catholic Church:
2270 Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.72
Code:
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you were born I consecrated you.73
Code:
My frame was not hidden from you, when I was
being made in secret, intricately wrought in the
depths of the earth.74
2271 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law:
Code:
You shall not kill the embryo by abortion and shall
not cause the newborn to perish.75
Code:
God, the Lord of life, has entrusted to men the noble
mission of safeguarding life, and men must carry it
out in a manner worthy of themselves. Life must be
protected with the utmost care from the moment of
conception: abortion and infanticide are abominable
crimes.76
footnotes:
72 Cf. CDF, Donum vitae I,1.
73 Jer 1:5; cf. Job 10:8-12; Ps 22:10-11.
74 Ps 139:15.
75 Didache 2,2:SCh 248,148; cf. Ep. Barnabae
19,5
G 2 777; Ad Diognetum 5,6
G 2,1173;
Tertullian, Apol. 9
L 1,319-320.
76 GS 51 § 3.
