Obama Seeks Common Ground on Abortion
The administration is working with advisers to develop its "common ground" plan
But huge religious organizations like the Southern Baptist Convention and the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops, which also opposes abortion rights, are hopeful. "We're willing to work with anyone who tries to reduce the number of abortions and helps women who choose to bring their babies to term," says Nancy Wisdo, associate general secretary for the bishops' council. "We're taking the White House at its word that this is going to be a serious effort." So are abortion-rights groups. The administration's challenge is to work up a plan that shows both camps it takes them seriously.
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Pat says he & Comp "share love of Christ & the Gospel"
Pat & Comp can't understand mitosis and are not clear on the meaning of many words. Abortion, done early, removes so small a number of cells that they can fit in a container the size of a kidney bean. P & C accept doctored photos and drawings that pretend an early conception is the size of a small turkey.
To try to end discussion of the money-motive of Pro-Life, there's a death threat and use of the word "ninny." Pat says he and Compassion are reaching out to me "to share their love of Christ and the Gospel." They are evangelizing. That means they hope they can convert me to be a tither. That kind of "sharing" feels more like an offer to infect me with a disease. I took time to see how many children were born to nonexistent Adam and Eve, and here came another incest story. Cain's wife had to be a sister or other blood relative. Children are taught to love the Bible with its tale of incest after the Flood, among 8 survivors, and in the myth of Lot having a baby with each daughter. The topic of discussion here is Pro-Life and WHY its leaders demand government enforcement of church laws that ban abortion.
Pat & Compassion deny $ motive of Pro-Life, but--
Pro-life uses some tithe income to pay for misleading propaganda that tells people lies about mitosis. That's the process of cell division during pregnancy. My July 12 comment explained it, but the Prolifers refused to learn from it. The Washington State Department of Health gives a list of reportable inheritable diseases. Abortion gives welcome relief from being born with those terrible abnormalities. There's no compassion in a comment that uses the word "ninny" as a way to try to escape debate. Some commentators say they have "holes in their lives and they fill the holes with God and Christ." Those are elaborate hallucinations. Church income, how to get it and increase it, IS the reason for Ban-Abortion laws. Men have joined NARAL, National Abortion Rights Action League. They do this because they don't want to be FORCED to be fathers. The leading cause of death of pregnant women is to be killed by their impregnators.
aura, you are a ninny
aura, Compassion and I were reaching to someone. That is what Christians do. We share the love of God and the gospel. You think it is all about money. If it was all about money, why do pastors in foreign countries get beat up or even killed for their faith when they could simply pay off the government or whomever is persecuting them? Also, nobody puts a gun to your head when they pass the offerring plate. The worse you could get from a deacon or elder is a scowl for not giving something and that's it.
No, we do not believe an embryo or a fetus is a potential believer to pay tithes so that we must protect them. We believe that the fetus and the embryo is a human being created by God and deserves the chance to live life to the fullest. We are not talking about cancerous mass or a tape worm residing within a woman's body. We are talking about human life. And who are we to take away someone's life who has yet to commit one act, whether good or bad?
Do you believe Hitler was evil? If yes, then your last comment makes no sense. After all, where would all those Jews, gypsies, gays, mentally challenged, etc. be today? How could the world support them and their descendants? If you believe he wasn't evil, then you are crazy.
Where did somebody mispeak about mitosis?
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