Abortion #2

[Gregory Matthews]

Abortion #2:  In the following article, a SDA physician discusses abortion, with several references to Catholic thought.

https://atoday.org/abortion-amputation-and-votes/

 

[bonnie1962]

Amputation

Before we talk about abortion, let’s talk about amputation. I am firmly against amputation. Two arms, two legs, two thumbs, and eight fingers are the God-given plan for human beings. There is no way that I am going to vote for anyone who allows people to willy-nilly amputate.

Except when necessary.

Yet voters are asked to vote for those that willy-nilly abort for any reason.

But this article is typical for SDA's that support abortion.

 Reason for their support is the health and life of the mother or birth defects so severe that life cannot be sustained.  What they don't ever address is the majority of abortions are not performed for such lofty reasons. Nor do they address the abortions performed on  a baby that could possibly live or the failure in some states such as MN to provide medical care for those aborted babies that are born alive.  support of 

In the SDA support of abortion the topic is treated as if those like the author really have only the purest of motives for abortion, which simply is untrue. Roe vs Wade became the law of the land for the convenience of the pregnant woman. Medical necessity was an after thought that allows supporters to sound so caring and christian as they vote for any stage abortion for any reason .  I repeat,I could have had a therapeutic abortion in 1964.

 

As a mission doctor I have been forced to amputate necrotic limbs that were killing the person to whom they were attached. My leprosy patients and diabetic patients living in poverty sometimes developed incurable wounds, allowing toxic bacteria to enter their bodies in spite of antibiotics and the best wound care we could offer. A choice had to be made by patient and doctor. An undesired, unwanted procedure would then be performed—carefully, legally, and safely. What you didn’t want to do was done. Destruction became life-preserving, life-affirming. The choice to amputate became the pro-life choice because of necessity.

The above is an absolute insult to anyone with average intelligence. Most abortion are not preformed for medical reason. This is nothing more than a justification for supporting abortion. Why can't those that support abortion be honest about it. All know when they vote for this exactly what they are supporting  along with the claim of the health of the mother

 

Jesus never mentioned abortion. But Jesus did approve of necessary amputation.

Jesus never mentioned smoking either. 

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I am asking us to consider the possibility that both pro-life and pro-choice abortion positions are a very similar issue to amputation. Abortion, like amputation, should n ot be done. Unless necessary.

 

Then why do the SDA supporters,and this author  vote for abortion at any stage for any reason and to deny medical intervention if the "clump of cells" has the misfortune to be born alive

 

The 5^th commandment tells us to honor fathers, but it also says we must honor mothers. Is it honoring mothers to tell them, “We male theologians, politicians, judges, and voters will not permit you to stop this pregnancy even to save your own life, practice family planning, child spacing, birth control, or prevent a child from being born to a short painful life of pathology”?

 

What a load of manure.