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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: God is Pro-Choice
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Date: Sun, 4-Nov-84 00:00:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  4 00:00:00 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 5-Nov-84 06:36:45 EST
Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont
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No doubt this will be a hot topic.  I'm not a Christian, but I do know
many of the variants of Christian doctrine, and most of them say that
God is pro-choice.  Not pro-abortion, mind you, but pro-choice, which
is to say that God would not advocate a human law banning abortion. 

One fundamental doctrine is that God gave Man "free-will", which is to
say that the decision about whether to follow God's law rests with every
individual man or woman.  God does not require that the law be followed
on Earth, but God clearly wants every human to be left to make a PERSONAL
decision on whether to follow God's law.   This includes everything from
"Thou shalt honour the lord thy God" to "Thou shalt not do murder"

Jesus never advocated that humans should enforce God's law, in fact he
expressly forbid it, suggesting that only those without sin might
be able to enforce God's law.  (And he further said that nobody, but nobody
except for him and his mother was without sin)
"Vengeance is mine!" said the God of the Old T. and "Judge not, lest ye
be judged" said the God of the New.

While you may prove as you like that God isn't keen on abortion, you
may only prove so for God's law.  God has told you it is NOT your duty
to enforce these principles in HUMAN law, so even from a religious
viewpoint, no religious reason should be accepted in defence of anti-abortion
laws, or any human laws for that matter.  And since non-religious people also
maintain that no religious reason should be given to defend laws, it's
fairly clear what the conclusion is.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473