It would be interesting to know exactly why you’re asking the question.There are some who believe it causes abortion, right?
What about adultery and divorce…should they be illegal too…since those things go against Church teaching as well?
Are you playing devil’s advocate here or are you being serious? I do think it might be good if adultery was illegal though.There are some who believe it causes abortion, right?
What about adultery and divorce…should they be illegal too…since those things go against Church teaching as well?
Well, both (if that’s possible). There is so much push to make abortion illegal (and to keep gay marriage illegal) based on Church teaching. I once agreed with it and am now questioning that approach. I just don’t see anyone calling for adultery or divorce or ABC to be illegal.Are you playing devil’s advocate here or are you being serious? I do think it might be good if adultery was illegal though.
I don’t think that abortion should be illegal. I think it would cause a lot more problems than it would solve. People would be getting back alley abortions and teenagers would be dying. Not only that, but many children would be born into the world that would be completely neglected and have unfit surroundings. I just think it would cause more harm than good.Well, both (if that’s possible). There is so much push to make abortion illegal (and to keep gay marriage illegal) based on Church teaching. I once agreed with it and am now questioning that approach. I just don’t see anyone calling for adultery or divorce or ABC to be illegal.
Actually…they are already illegal for all Christians…especially for you and me as Christian Catholics…just read the Catechism and the consistent teaching of the Catholic Church for 2,000+ years…why…because Jesus himself said so…as he was sending out the Twelve and the Seventy-two:Well, both (if that’s possible). There is so much push to make abortion illegal (and to keep gay marriage illegal) based on Church teaching. I once agreed with it and am now questioning that approach. I just don’t see anyone calling for adultery or divorce or ABC to be illegal.
**Matthew 10: 32-33; 40 (NIV) Jesus Sends Out the Twelve **
32"Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. 33But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven. 40"He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives the one who sent me.
So, the late Pope JP-II (the then Saint Peter and one of the Twelve) often said that …the Church only proposes…she never imposes…but his statement is a "trick statement…with a “punch line”…why?..because, what the Catholic Church** proposes is the infallible Truth (on all matters of Faith and Morals)…and that Truth is not something, but someone…a person…Our Lord Jesus Christ…the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords… the Alpha and the Omega…do you or I really, seriously want to say no to that **Person who is the way…the Truth…and the life…**which is the same Truth (on all faith and all morals)…that His Catholic Church is proposing?..**Luke 10:16 (NIV)…Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two
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16"He who listens to you listens to me; he who rejects you rejects me; but he who rejects me rejects him who sent me."
John 14: 6-7 (NIV)
For your consideration…6Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."
They do already. Most abortuaries employ personnel without any healthcare expertise, or minimal at best. Why do you need healthcare in a place where death is? It’s blind surgery, by the way. A large number of women, specifically of the clinic I counsel in front of, come by and tell us how they are herded like cattle in there and are still bleeding from a procedure that may have been done in the 1980s. Many become sterile.I don’t think that abortion should be illegal. I think it would cause a lot more problems than it would solve. People would be getting back alley abortions and teenagers would be dying. Not only that, but many children would be born into the world that would be completely neglected and have unfit surroundings. I just think it would cause more harm than good.
Some of these things were - in fact - illegal many years ago.There are some who believe it causes abortion, right?
What about adultery and divorce…should they be illegal too…since those things go against Church teaching as well?
Yes, I think it should be illegal. If it saves one soul, it’s worth it.There are some who believe it causes abortion, right?
I think divorce should be illegal. However, I don’t think we should outlaw adultery, at least not in the prison-term sense. Maybe a fine, but I think with that we should just ecourage repentance.and divorce…should they be illegal too…since those things go against Church teaching as well?
We can decide traffic laws and other societal human laws…but the law against abortion is a Divine Law (Thou shall not Murder…Kill the innocent)…neither you nor I really get a vote on that Divine decision which is now a Divine statute…it has already been made…our job is to accept it and let the Lord who made it worry about all the consequences of us obeying His Law(s)! Do we have Free Will…yes…but using it as we see fit…is all too often much like the Chinese proverb:…“may you live in interesting times…”.I don’t think that abortion should be illegal. I think it would cause a lot more problems than it would solve. People would be getting back alley abortions and teenagers would be dying. Not only that, but many children would be born into the world that would be completely neglected and have unfit surroundings. I just think it would cause more harm than good.
One thing we know for sure about the Lord God…He is adamantly for the “underdog”…for those who suffer from the greatest injustices of the powerful!Psalm 94 (ESV)
20Can** wicked rulers** be allied with you,
those who frame injustice by statute?
21They band together** against the life** of the righteous
and condemn the innocent to death.
That’s because it’s probaby not as bad as abortion, just by the numbers, and because it’s far less likely to succeed.I just don’t see anyone calling for adultery or divorce or ABC to be illegal.
The last year abortion was illegal, approximately 39 people died, in the entire nation.I don’t think that abortion should be illegal. I think it would cause a lot more problems than it would solve. People would be getting back alley abortions and teenagers would be dying.
That’s about 48 a year, on average, more than a 20% increase. It’s not just killing babies.in 1987, the Commissioner of Health for New York City sent a memo (not intended for the public) to those who provided abortions in his city. In it, he mentioned that between 1981 and 1984 there were 30 women in N.Y.C. who died as a result of their abortions, and 146 in the rest of the U.S.
I am glad that the Jim Crow laws are no longer, but you and the other poster are ignoring the fact that there are a number of other anti-Christian things that are legal in addition to abortion. Should we make them illegal too? If not, why not?Just because you Can do something,doesn’t necessarily mean you Should do it.
As one poster stated, “Jim Crow” laws were once perfectly “legal”.
Abortion is murder of the most savage type.
Just a few questions to consider:I don’t think that abortion should be illegal. I think it would cause a lot more problems than it would solve. People would be getting back alley abortions and teenagers would be dying. Not only that, but many children would be born into the world that would be completely neglected and have unfit surroundings. I just think it would cause more harm than good.
Of course they should be. And, in fact they were illegal in the US until quite recently.There are some who believe it causes abortion, right?
What about adultery and divorce…should they be illegal too…since those things go against Church teaching as well?
Abortion will never be outlawed in America. This I can guarantee. Republicans say they want to do it, but they never really would. There would be WAY too much opposition. Our society is becoming more and more liberal when it comes to equality. Gay marriage will be legal soon.However, abortion is far more likely to be outlawed soon, and probably more important to outlaw.