Thread: toldailytopic: In principle, are laws that regulate abortion an effective strategy to | Started 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Knight The TheologyOnline.com TOPIC OF THE DAY for March 3rd, 2011 02:01 PM toldailytopic: In principle, are laws that regulate abortion an effective strategy to end abortion? Take the topic above and run with it! Slice it, dice it, give us your general thoughts about it. Everyday there will be a new TOL Topic of the Day. If you want to make suggestions for the Topic of the Day send a Tweet to @ ... |
| | Other posts in this thread: Knight replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago Is this good news... or bad news for the pro-life movement? SD Senate votes to require 72-hr wait for abortion PIERRE, S.D. – The South Dakota Senate voted Wednesday to require women to wait 72 hours before they can have abortions and to submit to counseling about why they shouldn't go through with the procedures. The state Senate voted 21-13 in favor of the legislation, sending it to Republican... bybee replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago Quote: Originally Posted by Knight The TheologyOnline.com TOPIC OF THE DAY for March 3rd, 2011 02:01 PM toldailytopic: In principle, are laws that regulate abortion an effective strategy to end abortion? Law is one strategy among many. Teaching people the difference between right and wrong is another. Assisting poor women to care for their babies is another. I believe the use of birth control to... JoeyArnold replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago Law regulation may not be the most effective path towards ending abortion. Abortion starts out as an idea inside people's heads. Ideas are tough to kill. Abortion also seems like a representative of freedom. Some may argue that if you're pro-life, then you should be pro-decisions. They'll say that if the baby was a mistake, you forgot a condom, a birth control, if you can't afford a baby right ... Knight replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago Quote: Originally Posted by bybee Law is one strategy among many. Teaching people the difference between right and wrong is another. Assisting poor women to care for their babies is another. I believe the use of birth control to avoid pregnancy is another. Life is sacred. It is a gift from God. True, but what do you think of laws like the one I referenced? I'm not asking about what strategies ... JoeyArnold replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago Quote: Originally Posted by Knight source If this new legislation means better reeducation (education): In order to eventually eliminate the peer pressure of abortion, in order to give women resources before they make their decisions, whether that be abortion, adoption, or keeping the child(s), etc., or not: since it seems pro-life-like or pro-decision-like: Then I am then therefore somewhat in ... Son of Jack replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago I think laws regulating abortion are merely a bandaid on a gushing wound. The fact is that if people valued human life, all of it, then there would be no need for laws to regulate abortion. Until we address the culture of death that has grown up as a result of rampant individualism, with its insistence on the rights of the individual over and above the rights of the community, or, more ... JoeyArnold replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago Quote: Originally Posted by Son of Jack I think laws regulating abortion are merely a band-aid on a gushing wound. I agree. legislation, regulations, can often be a band-aid, or like a symptom. But a symptom, to a problem, may not always be the cause to a problem (or the solution, thereof): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symptom Poly replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago Quote: Originally Posted by JoeyArnold If this new legislation means better reeducation (education)..... The only education this law would give would be to inform people that as long as you just wait a few days, it will be perfectly legal for you to murder babies. It will also educate so called pro-lifers how to pat themselves on the back for supporting something they mistakenly think is some ... Lovejoy replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago Quote: Originally Posted by Knight True, but what do you think of laws like the one I referenced? I'm not asking about what strategies exist to combat abortion, I'm asking specifically about this one type of strategy: laws that regulate abortion. What do you think about laws that regulate abortion? Creating mandates to the courts, and to medical authorities, without providing means of ... Knight replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago Quote: Originally Posted by Poly And there's where the deception comes in. It seems pro- life "like" but it's pro- decision-like death. POTD | | Top contributing authors: Related threads on "Theology Forum | Religion | Politics | Christianity - Powered by Truth": Related threads on other sites: | |
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