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- From: rpitts@cerl.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: PREGNANCY
- Message-ID: <82232@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 17:55:22 GMT
- References: <1993Jan28.150542.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>
- Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU
- Organization: Georgia Tech CERL/EE, Atlanta, Ga
- Lines: 52
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- >I am fed up with all this talk about catholic women and abortion.
- >I feel that it is wrong for people to moralise about this subject as it is a
- >situation that very few women will have to face and therefore will never have
- >to consider .
-
- Why, if so "very few" have to face it, is there number of abortions
- about 20-30% of the number of live births. I guess very few ever
- give life birth, huh? 1,500,000 abortions a years =? very few, hmm????
-
- >As a devout catholic women I had NO reservations about having an abortion at
- >6 months into my pregnancy.
-
- I think most people would have reservations at this point. You've
- generally being "showing" for two months.
-
- >I faced the situation where I had came to a cross roads in my life, I was
- >offered my first job offer since leaving university which I was delighted
- >to accept but found myself pregnant to my lover.
-
- Do we always sacrifice morals/character for the sake of some supposed
- achievement? Got to get that specific job - forget everything else.
-
- >That was the choice, a new career or to stay at home and watch a baby.
- > I did not approach my church for any guidence on the matter, I contacted
- >my doctor and arranged the termination as soon as I could.
-
- The law currently allows for such actions, but such allowances do not
- make things right.
-
- As far as Christianity is concerned, the Bible tells us that we are to
- honor God with our body - that we are bought with a price (Jesus' death)
- and WE ARE NOT OUR OWN.
-
- >I would say to any woman in a situation of unwanted pregnancy to do similar
- >as you will not feel bad about yourself.
- >The only thing that will make you feel guilty about abortion is a priest.
-
- One's own conscience has this ability, for one really does know what
- is right and wrong, in most cases.
-
- Jesus came to give us life more abundantly - in Him there is no condemnation.
- He came to save those who need help, of which we all do. For those
- who think they don't "need help", they bring judgment upon themselves.
-
- For Christ and His Kingdom,
- Richard Pitts
-
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