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To: Zionist Conspirator
Like capital punishment, it is mandatory only in a miniscule number of cases.

Abortion is intrinsically evil. It is never permissible, in any circumstance, let alone "mandatory." Capital punishment is permitted in scripture. It is not intrinsically evil.

Your reading of God's Laws is faulty. I think you are confusing the principle of double effect (a medical procedure to save the life of the mother is morally licit, even if the secondary effect is the loss of the unborn child) with "abortion." A direct abortion is never morally licit, in any circumstance, and no appeal to some fringe interpretation of "G-d's Laws" will ever change that concrete reality.

73 posted on 12/20/2011 6:58:16 AM PST by Brian Kopp DPM
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To: Dr. Brian Kopp
Abortion is intrinsically evil. It is never permissible, in any circumstance, let alone "mandatory." Capital punishment is permitted in scripture. It is not intrinsically evil.

Your reading of God's Laws is faulty. I think you are confusing the principle of double effect (a medical procedure to save the life of the mother is morally licit, even if the secondary effect is the loss of the unborn child) with "abortion." A direct abortion is never morally licit, in any circumstance, and no appeal to some fringe interpretation of "G-d's Laws" will ever change that concrete reality.

My "reading of G-d's Laws" is not "faulty." Yours is at variance with Halakhah--both Jewish and Noachide.

I have said several times that abortion is mandatory in only a miniscule number of cases, when the child is a rodef ("pursuer," a Halakhic term referring to someone who is "pursuing" another person to kill him), and when ensoulment has not occurred. After ensoulment the child may not be aborted even to save the mother's life.

Your position is based on Catholicism, "natural law," and rationalism. Mine is based on Theonomic positivism--what is right and what is wrong depends solely on Divine decree, and nothing else.

75 posted on 12/20/2011 7:20:17 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu.)
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