Because sometimes we need the right perspective to share...
Not all potentials are realized
... Both science and the record of history tell us not only that women have been terminating pregnancies throughout human time, but that the Almighty has as well.
Scientists calculate that between 20% and 50% of all conceptions end in spontaneous abortion, or "miscarriage," often so early the woman is unaware she was even pregnant.
The numbers are even higher for other forms of life that exist in God's ordered universe: for instance, fewer than 1% of seedlings survive to become trees.
Not everything that contains the DNA potential for life goes on to become full-fledged life. This is in the natural order of things. God allows for this possibility...
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Perhaps this debate is so intractable in our national discourse because we are attempting to resolve a moral behavior matter with a legal solution.
...Like earlier pro-temperance believers, ardent anti-abortionists today seek to enforce their own form of sharia-type law: to install draconian governmental control over the abilities of American women to make decisions about their own lives, health and families.
Banning alcohol production and distribution in the U.S. did not work 100 years ago because it came to be seen as a top-heavy legal solution to an essentially social behavior matter. We can avoid doing the same here.... ...perhaps limited regulation coupled with more emphasis on social and personal mores would result in a better outcome.
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