The Biblical Basis for Being Pro-Choice

Belief Net ^ | 1.23.03 | By Marjorie Brahms Signer

[ThirstyMan]

Where's your barf alert?
Using the spiritually dead and misguided Christian denominations and the Unitarian Universalists [humanists] as a "biblical" foundation for being pro-choice is
SO VERY WEAK!!!!

[xsmommy]

talk about your oxymoron. well, make that just plain MORON~!

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[NeoCaveman]

What a marroon!

[Judith Anne]

From Psalm 139

For You created my inmost being;
You knit me together in my mother's womb.
I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from You
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
Your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in Your book
before one of them came to be.

While this portion of the Psalm doesn't forbid abortion, I am of the opinion that this supports the pro-life position, biblicly.

[hobbes1]

In fact, the Bible never mentions abortion and does not deal with the question of when life begins. Genesis 2:7 (God “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living being”) refers to the specific, unique event of the creation of Adam out of the earth. It says nothing about the process of conception, pregnancy, and birth.

Try Luke 1: 26-38:

The angel said to Mary, "Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you ... Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. You will conceive in your womb and bear a son ..."

Good thing it was about 2000 years before Margaret Sanger.

[day10]

How convenient - the second paragraph in this article contains a handy list of denominations NOT to attend.

[EternalVigilance]

Specious bilge.

That was the nicest thing I could think of to say about it.

[scottinoc]

Religions have many different--and changing--tenets about abortion. Some oppose abortion in all cases because they believe human life begins when an egg and sperm meet. They hold this belief even though medical science defines pregnancy as beginning with the implantation of the fertilized egg.

OK, so is the author going to posit her own theory as to when life begins? No? Didn't think so.

[calebjosh]

Boy, what a complete and utter grasp for rationality! That's the pathetic state of the denominations mentioned. Here's one of the many scriptural mandates against abortion:

Gal 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

[smith288]

Who is pro-choice and religious? Denominations with official and long-standing pro-choice positions include the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Episcopal Church, the United Methodist Church, the United Church of Christ, the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, and Reform and Conservative Judaism. These organizations have a diversity of views about abortion and recognize it as a morally complex decision that must be made by the person most affected--the woman.

Ah, yes. The denominations famous for picking and choosing Bible doctrine that isnt offensive to the 2003 PC crowd and calling the rest "out of date".

They need to rely on these Christian "denominations" (mutations) to prove their immoral and un-Christian act as spirtually admisable.

[wideawake]

Meandog is a pro-abort McCainiac leftist.

Therefore no barf alert.

[ThirstyMan]

I have personal experiences with all three; the Episcopalians, the Unitarians and the United Methodists. I was raised in the Episcopal but never found the Lord Jesus Christ until I left the Church. My personal Christian friend attended the BU United Methodist seminary and while it is not uniformly liberal, half of his class at BU was lesbian women seeking the pulpit. The Unitarians were born locally [New England] and so I am quite familiar with their historic and present day inclusive doctrines...anything goes with them...just open their hymnal and see.

Again, the "biblical" aspect of this story is A JOKE!!! The story should have a BARF ALERT!!!

[Alex Murphy]

Bump for later

[scottinoc]

Many Protestant Christians emphasize the New Testament’s teaching of the priesthood of all believers, meaning that everyone has direct access to God and therefore the ability to do God’s will.

Wow, so you can pretty much decide for yourself what's right and wrong. That's some squishy theology.

[Robert A Cook PE]

"If we make wrong choices, God forgives us..."

The "authority" forgot that WE must ask forgiveness, and WE must sin no more, and WE must not murder for convenience.

God does not "automatically" forgive us for murdering our children.

[Vic3O3]

Man, what a crock! I guess they never read the Psalms, about "knew me in my mother's womb..."