Marriage is not a religious issue

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Sy_Noe said:
What I think would be a bad idea is to have 50 different laws on the issue. Which in effect would restrict a woman’s religious freedom based on which state is her place of residency or whether she has the wherewithal to travel to another state. So I am fine with leaving the law as it is under Roe. Under Roe, we already allow restrictions after the first trimester. And as things stand now, Catholic and evangelical women have the right to exercise their faith and not abort. As do all women. But women whose faiths do allow some choice, also have their religious freedom at least in the first trimester when the vast majority of abortion occur anyway. But with 50 separate laws on the matter, a woman, lets say whose Christian faith resides in the United Church of Christ for example, living in say, Alabama, won’t have the religious freedom to follow her faith’s views on abortion unless she has the wherewithal to travel to possibly a distant state. That’s not religious freedom. That’s Big Brother State interfering in women’s lives in a very personal matter. So my focus, as another poster spoke about, is on assuring women access to social programs, childcare, healthcare and those things that can continue to lower abortion rates instead of spending time overturning a court’s Constitutional decision from over 40 decades ago. But I do not practice the Catholic faith.
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Marriage is not a religious issue.
 
No faith, AFAIK, declares abortion to be a good and noble act, or declares abortion a ritual or a duty of the faith. Some faiths may hold the act is in some cases tolerable or acceptable. This does not mean that to abort is “following the faith” or “an act of freedom of religion”. To suggest that it is is plainly absurd.
 
Sy_Noe said:
Don’t jump threads. If you get involved in an argument in one thread, it’s considered poor manners to restart the previous argument in the middle of an unrelated thread.

forums.catholic-questions.org/showpost.php?p=2789571&postcount=1
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Fair enough. I can’t change the OP at this point, but I welcome the moderator to remove the quotation from the other thread if they have the time. (And if so I hope they’ll fix the thread title to say “Abortion is not a religious issue.”)
 
Peter_J said:
Wow, I don’t how I mistyped that so badly.
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You may have been wondering why, if marriage is not a religious issue, people don’t bake. 🙂 In any case you already know my pov that abortion is a religious issue given that religions have various views on the subject. This has been discussed ad nauseum on another subforum even to the point where one of the Jewish contributors has explained more than once that in the Orthodox Jewish religion, abortion is actually required when the fetus threatens the life of the mother. I did find this which seems to confirm it.

“Jewish law permits and views abortion as necessary in some cases. When the mother’s life is at risk because of the unborn child, an abortion is obligatory. This is because the child has the status of “potential human life,” until the majority of its body has made its egress from the mother’s body.”

nswjbd.org/What-is-the-Jewish-view-on-abortion-/default.aspx

Note the words, “an abortion is obligatory”. That alone would seem to make it a religious issue. Not to mention the various Christian denominations which allow women to choose an abortion. As things stand now, Catholic women have the right to observe the dictates of their faith and to not ever procure an abortion.

But given as I stated that the matter is discussed ad nauseum, I shall comment no further on this thread nor follow it. Carry on.
 
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