Asking a rhetorical question like "don't you value innocent life?" is so disingenuous to me, that it begs the question about what is "innocence?" Is your 15 yr old daughter who gets raped and impregnated not "innocent?" are the millions of women in third world countries who cannot afford another mouth to feed not innocent? are not the billions of people surviving on $1 dollar a day and starving for nutrition not innocent?
If some 13yr old kid pulls a gun on me and is threatening to shoot me or my family, and i haven't had coffee yet, and i'm late for work, and I have the opportunity to kill him in order to protect me or my family, i'm sorry, my family and my coffee are more important to me in the morning...and if i lose my job, i cannot afford either one.
If my wife is dying of cancer and she is also pregnant, but the Dominican system will not allow her to have an abortion in order to start Chemotherapy, i have no problem aborting the child with my own two hands...maybe even making some stir-fry or scrambled eggs with the fetus afterwards. my wife and i will have plenty of opportunities to have more kids in the future if she survives her cancer.
If my daughter is raped by our neighbor--who just got deported 9 months ago from Cabarete BTW--and the Government will not allow us to abort the baby...i will take the baby out myself with my own hands and stir-fry it and serve it to him in Dominican jail (inmates must have someone bring them food everyday). Do you think for one Fu%king minute i would allow my daughter to have a baby by a 60yr old, ugly pedophile that has a hygiene problem and fungus on his feet? Do you think i would take the chance that the baby is born deformed or mentally handicapped and then i'm stuck for the next 50 years of my life raising a deformed or mentally handicapped baby fathered by a 60yr old pedophile that raped my daughter. Are you fuc^king out of your mind!?
If my wife has another affair with a Watchie-man and gets pregnant...do you think for a Fu^king second that i am going to raise and finance the kid of some illiterate, unemployable Camposino who only make US $40 a week and is banging my wife while i am at work slaving for the Man?
Let me be clear about this...i don't care if the 10 week old fetus is a human or a clump of cells or not...if we agree that it is OK to kill another human being to protect our family, and it is OK to kill another human being if we are at war, and it is OK to kill another human being who is attacking us with a machete...then why should I have a problem aborting a 10 week old fetus when its me who is going to be stuck for the next 18yrs of my life raising someone else's fuc^king kid?
Religious people need to wake the F^uck up and realize that we kill everyday for numerous reasons. We kill without any remorse or protest. Do you see any religious people mourning when an abortion doctor gets killed? Do you see them mourning when we're at war with someone over our right to exist on this planet--I.E WWI, WWII; do you see them mourning when there are 5 million kids dying every single year before the age of 9 from Malnutrition, Starvation, Cholera, Malaria, War, TB, AIDS, etc.; do you see them mourning when they watch their children go off to war in various countries around the world to defend our so-called Freedom back in the USA? How many Americans from religious backgrounds are in the US Armed Forces right now? How many have served in the past 100 years? Where was the outcry about killing in war? How about the carpet bombing in Dresden...were their not pregnant women killed in all our carpet bombings throughout the ages?
I was raised in a religious home both in the USA and Dominican Republic. You know what i noticed? Religious people suffer from the same brain-damage that inflicts stupid people world wide..they cannot think, and they become fixated on a few issues right up to the point where they become the victim of the issues.
PS. I must have my coffee now.
Love Frank