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Originally Posted by pinski
If life is already started, it means it was inevitable, therefore it has a Purpose and any conscious interruption of it has to be prohibited.
It does not matter if a man and a woman involuntarily instigated the Beginning of Life and they are not ready to become parents. It does not matter if “a child was conceived as the result of rape”, or doctors discovered in the early stage of Life development that it has genetic disorder, or a mother “feels she can’t reasonably bring to term for her own reasons”.
Only one thing does matter, - any Life has a Purpose.
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I'm afraid that I really have to disagree with you strongly, Pinski. In the first place, most people are not aware of what an astounding number of pregnancies terminate all of their own accord, which seems to deny any real "purpose."
As many as 50% of pregnancies miscarry before implantation in the womb occurs. Early after implantation, before pregnancy is clinically recognized, loss rate is about 30%. After the pregnancy can be clinically recognized, between days 35-50, about 25% will end in miscarriage. Think about those numbers for a moment. It is likely that nearly three-quarters of all conceptions terminate all by themselves!
As to your assertion that "any Life has a Purpose," well I challenge that in several ways. The first, and possibly the most important, is to ask "what purpose?" And I'll tell you that if you state that the purpose is God's purpose, then you don't know what it is, you don't know what you're here for, you can never know what the purpose of your life is. And if you can't know the purpose of your life, then you are nothing but the tool or plaything of the entity whose purpose it is for you to live. I find that extremely unsatisfying.
But I would go further, and say to you that if every life has a purpose, let's ask the purpose of the butterfly. To create beauty? Okay, what of the little worm right now boring into the eye of a child sitting on a river bank in Africa, slowly turning him blind? What is that worm's purpose? Surely it was created by the same process as the butterfly. (And you and I would agree that they were created by the same process, except that I would say it is blind evolution, you would say it was God.)
Let me quote Sir A.J. Ayer, a British Philsopher.
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None of those who have compared the world to a vast machine [made by the Great Watchmaker] has ever made any serious attempt to say what the maching could be for. . . . Theists have generally assumed that it had something to do with the emergence of man. This is a view which it is perhaps natural for men to take but hardly one that would be supported by a dispassionate consideration of the scientific evidence. Not only did man make a very late appearance upon the scene in a very small corner of the universe, but it is not even probably that, having made his appearance, he is here to stay. . . . So far as scientific evidence goes, the universe has crawled by slow degrees to a somewhat pitiful result on this earth, and is going to crawl by still more pitiful stages to a condition of universal death. If this is to be taken as evidence of purpose, I can only say that the purpose is one that does not appeal to me.
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