After a friend printed a misguided defence of abortion (from her comments thread)

[fpb]

Rephrase your premise as follows:
I don't agree with abortions... but if they're going to happen (which they will), they need to be safe and legal.
I don't agree with rape... but if they're going to happen (which they will), they need to be safe and legal.
I don't agree with burglary... but if they're going to happen (which they will), they need to be safe and legal.
I don't agree with assault... but if they're going to happen (which they will), they need to be safe and legal.
I don't agree with embezzlement... but if they're going to happen (which they will), they need to be safe and legal.
I don't agree with fraud... but if they're going to happen (which they will), they need to be safe and legal.
I don't agree with forced marriage... but if they're going to happen (which they will), they need to be safe and legal.

etc., etc., etc.....

Excuse me, if something is wrong, why the Hell should it be safe and legal, only because "it's going to happen"? Crime is always "going to happen". That is the point of having laws. We do not have laws against something which, though wrong, is never going to happen (e.g. there is no law against stealing someone's soul). The point of having a law against it is to state that it is a disapproved and forbidden activity, and that, if you are caught (which, alas, will not always be the case), you will be punished. This trash about "it's going to happen anyway" is simply something that abortionists repeat ad nauseam, on the principle that if we hear a statement often enough we're going to take it for granted.

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Re: Different standards, different conclusions

[thysanotus.livejournal.com]

Not only have I read the Bible at length, but I have studied it in depth at several tertiary institutions. I take offence to your assumption that I am unable to reason with my own opinions and logic on this matter.

I was merely pointing out some of the other things that the Bible says, without even bringing up the fact that nowhere does it mention anything about abortion. And let's not have the Commandment argument - Thou shalt not kill was actually Thou shalt not murder, and if a pregnant women was murdered, the only compensation that was due was that for the woman, not for the unborn child.

I am willing to listen to and respond to rational arguments. The fact that I've seen none here has been what's led to my almost complete silence.

Re: Different standards, different conclusions

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Trolls should not be fed, but I cannot resist the arrogance, vanity and ignorance in this response. The notion that this person's previous post invited anything more than scorn shows a lack of self-awareness that is terrible to behold. And the notion that she is, of all the people who posted here, for and against, the only one who has so far proposed a "rational argument" - the rational argument being, if you please, some pathetic anecdote about Jewish law, as if Jesus Christ and Sts.Peter and Paul had never happened - adds to that a distinct tone of comedy. Go away, troll.