tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409139071628002101.post6445495458698739562..comments2023-09-11T07:34:37.635-07:00Comments on Shared thoughts: Price or value?Andrew Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14685970347404504083noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409139071628002101.post-87832311727541187412008-10-06T16:06:00.000-07:002008-10-06T16:06:00.000-07:00Hi, first, thank you for visiting my little blog :...Hi, first, thank you for visiting my little blog :)I thought I would return the favor and check out what yours was about. I went to college as a history major and currently tutor English, essay writing and social studies online, so that was an interesting thing to read in your bio. As far as this post goes, have you read Reagan's little book, Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation? I bought that on Ebay awhile back and reread it just a couple weeks ago. He brings into the discussion not just the points you made, but also the point of quality of life over sanctity of life. This crosses over into things like euthansia. Your post speaks about the validation of that little life in the womb, but he also speaks about not terminating that life because that child may have a medical issue. Also, it ties into not terminating an older person's life, or a person like Terry Shiavo's life, because she doesn't have the quality of life we believe she should have. That is God's decision to make there. Even in old age, even though I understand that the difference you are making is that the person is making that choice, it's not being made for them. However, if we continue down a slipperly slope like that, it won't be that person choosing anymore. It will be others deciding on their quality of life and whether they are valuable enough to keep around. I agree with your post though, I just thought I'd add that too.Star*Spangled*Eyeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660564593307411610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409139071628002101.post-35575095590441656492008-10-03T22:25:00.000-07:002008-10-03T22:25:00.000-07:00Andrew, I know that you have visited my homeschool...Andrew, I know that you have visited my homeschool blog, but I have a personnal blog, www.biynah.wordpress.com also, www.pregnancycenterswia.org Thank you again for visiting my blog. TanyaTanyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13820661124947114926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409139071628002101.post-2120411551019054562008-10-02T10:52:00.000-07:002008-10-02T10:52:00.000-07:00Thank you so much for coming to my blog. I totally...Thank you so much for coming to my blog. I totally understand about schools for our children. I am impressed with your post. See, I am a director of the Pregnancy Center here in our small town. I am blessed that most of my clients do not choose to abort as much as wanting to get pregnant to have someone to love them. I see that parents in this town are so absorb in there own life that they forget the children that they need to raise. It is sad, and you are right when you say that the sanctity of human life is gone. People do not respect each other like they used to. It seems like it is so easy to rid oneself of things, I wonder if this is not the thinking of most women about babies? I am not sure. But it will take people like you and me and people who read our blogs and agree to stand against the thinking in this world. Thanks again for your post and comment on my blog. Sincerely Tanya RossTanyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13820661124947114926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409139071628002101.post-73350744861473491642008-09-30T21:53:00.000-07:002008-09-30T21:53:00.000-07:00Good post, Andrew! This is an issue that I have h...Good post, Andrew! This is an issue that I have had some heated debates over. The problem isn't just caused by selfish, careless people with unbridled sexual appetites. It is also the money-making abortion industry. Outlaw abortion, and you take away lots of jobs. They try to make it out to be about women's rights, but it is mainly about their love of money.<BR/><BR/>It's silly, because there is such a small percentage of unwanted pregnancies caused by rape and very few in which the mother's health is compromised. The vast number of abortions are a form of birth control. And believe me, if these mass murder centers had their way, our taxes would be helping pay for it. It irritates them to no end that women can't get more government assistance for it. Actually, I don't know how it is where you are. Here it is hard for a woman to get financial help for having an abortion.Farrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14274760327802884251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409139071628002101.post-75409641063203542222008-09-30T14:50:00.000-07:002008-09-30T14:50:00.000-07:00Wow! Great post!Wow! Great post!Amberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05853858031617966052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409139071628002101.post-24283471394084586712008-09-29T22:56:00.000-07:002008-09-29T22:56:00.000-07:00One of the first posts of my blog was on how our c...One of the first posts of my blog was on how our culture has allowed abortion without first settling the question of the personhood of the conceived. Apparently it is up to the mother. But anyone who gets pregnant when not prepared for it is hardly prepared to make such a decision regarding the value of the conceived. People engage in the act of procreation and then act surprised should a pregnancy occur. <BR/><BR/>The problem is in their self-serving desire for sexual self-gratification. It has led to this abhorent attitude that suggests that maybe that growing life within its mother isn't yet a person endowed by its Creator with the inalienable right to life. "If we pretend that we can't know when the conceived becomes a person, then we can destroy at our whim." <BR/><BR/>But how can it possibly NOT be a human just like us, but at the first stages of development? It exists because the parents engaged in the act designed by nature or nature's God for procreation. It won't become any other creature, if allowed to gestate and live. It is a person because that's all it can possibly be. It is an out and out lie to say otherwise and there exists no evidence whatsoever to say otherwise. There is only subjective barrel scraping put forth to allow for this pathetic and dispicable abdication of responsibility. <BR/><BR/>If I were king, I would have the parents of each aborted child sterilized. Since they weren't mature enough to deal with their urges in an honorable manner, they would forfeit their ability to have a child later. <BR/><BR/>We're all horny. We all must act like mature adults and control ourselves or do the honorable thing when a pregnancy occurs. <BR/><BR/>Excellent post.Marshal Arthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01054268632726520871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409139071628002101.post-36219607972193805082008-09-29T15:09:00.000-07:002008-09-29T15:09:00.000-07:00AWESOME arguments. well written, well thought out...AWESOME arguments. well written, well thought out. I don't know how anybody can argue against this. <BR/><BR/>I have been thinking a lot about how we get our value from other people - and this is the most extreme & first example of that. we DO look for our value in others... and we have taken on the role of creator. we are each others idols. we worship others. my post today was on this exact thing. what a danger it is when we take on the role of our creator who is the one and only who has the right to say when a life begins & ends. <BR/><BR/>hope you're having a great day! :) great post!Randi Jo :)https://www.blogger.com/profile/10455815193915058855noreply@blogger.com