Abortion can be taken from two major views, I will consider them here:
1 - God exists. Then the real question becomes, when does a person develop a soul? I ask this because this would be when we would be murdering the body that contains the soul. Let us start at when the baby is born - we can agree that it has a soul then. So, if a child has a soul because it has a body, then it can be derived that a materialistic construct is required in order for an essence to have a soul. Ergo, the fetus has a soul, the ovary has a soul, and the sperm have a soul. Thusly, the soul of one individual is gained from the materialistic embodiements of their combined materialistic parents. So this leads us to ask - well, where did all of human kinds bodies originate..? From a theist prospective - God. God gave us phsyical bodies in order for our souls to live in. Thusly, our soul is born from God and spread from our materialistic parents. Now we must ask, is this morally wrong..?
I refuse to quote the Bible here because of the following reasons; theists rely on the Bible as it is believed it is the words from God. In order to receive the words from God, a human must hear them and write them down. When the human hears them and writes the words down - they will no longer be Gods words but the replication of them from human beings. Thusly, the original premiss that we should believe in the Bible's words because they are God's words is invalid and false.
To continue from point 1 - is this morally wrong? Well, theists would also like to believe that we are given free will. If we have free will, then we should be able to make choices on how to deliberate your materialistic body. Since we have illustrated how we are, for a time being, a materialistic make-up in our parents and that we gain our souls from them - it is not our choice until we are no longer a materialistic construct of our parents and independent from them. In other words, we do not share the same body. In conclusion, it seems to make logical sense that a theist could easily take the stand-point that we should have the choice of abortion as we are the materialistic make-up of our parents for roughly 9 months.
Of course, theists could easily say that this is then murdering God's soul and that we should not make the decision to do so. Then we come to the problem of free-will in this respect. Then we must consider the purpose of the soul and many other problems in this case. I will not dive into this point as I have met a fair number of theists who have agreed with the aforementioned. If there are theists who disagree with this point, please illustrate to me why and let us go from there.
Point 2 - Atheists take the same stance but with a different question - when are humans considered to be alive? Notice the similarity? We must then define life and living. I usually liked to ask atheists (or scientists/empiricists/etc.) when is it truly considered murder if aborting a 5 month fetus is wrong..? What about contraceptives? Does a condom not contain spermacide that murders sperm? Does not birth control prevent the development of ovaries by fooling the body that it is pregnant..?
I will not delve too far into this point as I would like to see the responses before exhaustively pontificating the points.
I hope I stirred the pot.
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