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Thanks for opening your reply with an insult. I am afraid that I don't see the world in black and white. The Bible teaches Thall Shalt Not Kill. Pretty much a Pro Life statement that covers all of the bases. So, if you follow the teaching "thall shalt not kill," you would logically be anti abortion. But shouldn't you also be anti-capital punishment and anti-war? Killing is killing. That is black and white.

We bend the rules to cover capital punishment by saying that they are bad people who have it coming as punishment. But it is still killing. War kills on a massive scale, but it is justified as being used as last resort in order to save lives. But it is still killing.

Abortion, War, capital punishment. It is all killing that is justified by whatever rationale that those involved in it at the time care to use to suit their purpose.

Me, I am pro death penalty all the way. There are times when "Right To Life" needs to become "Responsibility of Life". But some people just do not deserve to live. Malvo/Muhammed are just two. Their Right To Life should be revoked.

I also believe that while "Give Peace A Chance" is a noble sentiment and highly desirable. It will never happen as long as the human race continues to disagree about the stupidest issues. Therefore, there are times when war is the only answer. The upcoming war with Iraq... Well, I am just not convinced that it is absolutely necessary yet.

Hussein, Hitler, Bin Laden. Wouldn't have been nice to be able to look into some sort of "Minority Report" crystal ball and see into the future before they were born. I wonder who would have been all for aborting those SOBs.

Now, I don't know when "life" begins, I have no idea when a human being obtains their soul. What I do know is that in a perfect world abortion would not be an issue. But look around folks, the world is far from perfect, and we are in no way as advanced, as civilized or as morally superior as we would think.

No matter what the government does concerning abortion. It will still go on. Women will just be forced to cross the border and go where it will be legal. So, nothing is solved, we as a country will just have this false feeling of moral superiority. Real change will take more than what any law can accomplish.

In the original Hebrew, the word "kill" in "Thou shall not kill." translates "Thou shall not murder." Hebrew has many words to describe a thing and there are several for "kill". There are also several for "love". One word means brotherly love. Another one means parental love and another means romantic love, etc.

When the the translators translated the Bible into English, they obviously had to pick just one English word for these various Hebrew words.

People who use the Bible to justify their arguments frequently make this mistake.