Laying it on a bit thick, are we....

Well, Durwood. Good for you with your step children.

I have adopted a mixed race child myself, and have 2 sponsored children... a little boy in Ecuador, the little girl in Columbia.

I will certainly agree that abortion should not be entered into lightly. However there is an enormous gap in belief systems at work here.

The question is whether life actually begins at conception or at first breath. My beliefs support the latter. As an adherent to the belief in re-incarnation, my firmly held belief is that no spiritual energy is ever destroyed, The soul that would inhabit an aborted fetus will incarnate at another place at another time. The life plan is aborted, not the life energy.

However, once a baby is born and begins life, the soul 'permanently' establishes itself in the body. That point is the beginning of life and to terminate at that point is certainly murder.

Obviously you and your pal do not hold this belief, or you wouldn't be throwing around the term 'murder'. If I had the traditional Christian religious belief that life began at conception, I suppose I might hold the same views as you, however I do not. I do live a spiritual life, (for the sarcastic SOB that I am) but I am not a follower of any organized religion and in fact, feel that most religions only serve to disempower people by rigid and oppressive dogmas and doctrines. Religions also endevour to impose themselves between a soul and his creator as a 'middleman' that offers the only 'road to salvation'. This is simply a hindrance to spiritual evolution (at least for me). However to each his own, I always say...

At any rate the soul is eternal and cannot be terminated. While still part of the mother the fetus is but a potential life. It is not a realized living spiritual being. And, as I mentioned, it only becomes so when it is born. If the life situation for that potential spiritual being will prove to be untenable and destructive for all concerned (baby, mother, family etc.), then perhaps abortion can be a considered option. A caveat here: Using abortion simply for birth control is not in the best interests of anybody, however and will only lead to a lack of spiritual growth and negative karma (a very eastern spiritual principle)

I am fairly certain this will not change any minds, as this issue tends to be a rather emotional and heated.

So, to sum up, I favor freedom of choice (as a last resort). However unlike some of my liberal friends, I do not support gun control of any sort or description. If you disarm the citizens, the only ones who will have weapons are the criminals and the authorities... and it's hard to tell the difference these days...

Beside, the Bill of Rights has something to say on this issue.

There you have it... a bit Libertarianism for you

;0)

Wiz
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