Maybe, this will persuade others to selectively abort the weaker fetuses in situations like this. Maybe it will dissuade people from using fertility drugs that put them in the position to have to choose. Maybe it will persuade others to adopt one of the millions of orphaned and unwanted kids already out there in the world.

Oh, and Mike Seth:
Slavery implies an absence of choice. A woman who chose to have sex (and my comment is ONLY directed at women who had sex BY CHOICE), knowing she could get pregnant as a result, had a choice…and used it. To then complain that the pregnancy is inconvenient for you is like driving off a bridge and then saying you didn’t ask to fall. And if it turns out that someone happens to be able to stop that fall, it doesn’t make it any less irresponsible of the person who drove the car off the bridge without accepting that they would need to deal with the consequences. You know, I don’t think abortion should be illegal, because there are very genuine and valid reasons why a woman might seek one. But when millions of women start turning abortion into some sick form of contraception, having abortions for no reason other than a refusal to face the consequences of their own choices, as if there were no viable life being ended in the process, then I can certainly empathise with the people who don’t want it to be legal. Being asked to face the foreseeable consequences of your own choices is not a form of sexual slavery. Save the term for true subjucation of women…it’s not like it’s not out there.

So okay, I get it – I get what you’re saying. All I was trying to say is that we need to choose our words more carefully when throwing around accusations. Plain old, regular, church-going Christians are in no way similar to Radical Islams. In no way. At all. And here, I’m talking about those people who have a set of beliefs and allows those beliefs to affect the way they live their lives – not everyone else’s lives.

I’m no fan of any of the Christian leaders who have politicized (sp?) the faith. It’s wrong. Period. And as for all these supposed Christians that are in strong support of the war – well, just know that this Christian wants our troops home yesterday. Grouping everyone together doesn’t do any of us any good. Gee, isn’t that the second time I’ve said something like that in this thread?

http://www.holysmoke.org/hs00/hatred.htm

And then to Rousas J. Rushdoony,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Rushdoony

oh yeah, and to Pat Robertson, and Jerry Falwell,

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A7124-2001Sep21

Yeah, -radical fundamentalist- Christians, Tana, are pretty much equivalent with -radical- i.e. fundamentalist Moslems. Most people don’t blow themselves up, no; but, too, you know what, if you were experiencing the equivalent of the terror of (/11 -every single damn day-, you know what it’s like to live in a country under siege? bombs on a daily basis, food and water shortages, friends and relatives disappearing in the middle of the night, loved ones turning up dead on a regular basis?–you, too, might start feeling a bit more sympathetic toward desperate measures.

And um, not believing in killing people–exactly what do you think the war in Iraq -is-, Tana? And no, for the last damn time, “they” didn’t start that particular little saga. -We did.- And–surprise!–a lot of good Christians out there on the battlefield, and a lot more cheering ‘em on, and do you really think we’re so easily identified as the “good guys,” Tana? Do you?

And as per terrorists–no, that’s right, the radical Christian kind doesn’t tend to strap bombs to themselves so much.

They just plant them there and hope to die another day.

http://www.msnbc.com/modules/clinics/

What’s the difference between Christianity’s beliefs and those of radical Islams? Ummmmm, how about the fact that Christians don’t believe that killing people and killing oneself serves God? How about the fact that Christians don’t believe that anyone who doesn’t believe in God and Jesus should die? Please please please, whoever tried to pull this stunt in an earlier comment – just don’t. Just don’t.

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