“My viewpoint is different from yours. A foetus is not even viable until several weeks along in pregnancy. The mother is a live human being. Jewish law and common sense indicate the the mother’s life and wellbeing come first.”
Bearing a child that’s the result of rape or incest is not going to risk the mother’s life.
“A woman is not simply a vessel for carrying babies, no matter how innocent the babies are. In cases of rape and forced incest, the mother should be able to abort the baby rather than being compelled to carry it to term.”
Your first sentence means nothing, since no one’s arguing that women ARE “simply a vessel for carrying babies,” and the second sentence merely makes a proclamation of your opinion, and does not offer any argument for it at all.
“I understand that terrible things have been done by liberalizers of abortion. However, that is not an excuse for going totally in the opposite direction. But that’s people.”
I don’t need an excuse for not wanting to see unborn babies murdered. Life begins at conception. Destroying that life is murder. I don’t care about the circumstances that brought about that life - it’s STILL murder.
‘Life begins at conception.’
your post makes excellent points, my compliments...if pressed, I would say that abortion for any purposes other than saving the life of a compromised mother be illegal after medically affirmed detection of embryonic development, either a fetal pole or a heartbeat...