Comments on: Why Abortion Will Always Be An Important Issue

By: Dorian

Dorian — Mon, 10 May 2010 07:09:44 +0000

Jeremy, you rock! I love the points you made; I was helping my daughter, whose in high school, with a paper about abortion and your blog helped me tremendously. Thank you Jeremy. You could not have said it best.

By: Vianeth Ruiz

Vianeth Ruiz — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:02:57 +0000

Well doctors say they have to try to save a persons life but whit abortion they are doing the opposite!. People would call the babies fetus but why do they call them fetus?. if just 21 days after conception the baby’s heart is beating .. at 6 weeks, the brain waves can be measured.. at 8 weeks the stomach, liver, kidneys are functioning and fingerprints have formed. so that means there’s no more fetus and they can’t call those babies a name that you can’t prove. SO ABORTION ENDS A LIFE !, ABORTION KILLS!, ABORTION IS A MURDER!. And why don’t they stop it ?

By: Jeremy Sarber

Jeremy Sarber — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:30:49 +0000

Eric and I were talking off-site last night and that’s what Leslie was referring to.

By: Dani

Dani — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:31:50 +0000

First, can I please get an answer from Eric about how I’m not really for Human Rights?

Second, what is Lesile referring to? Where did sexist talk every come up, did I miss something?

By: Jeremy Sarber

Jeremy Sarber — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:44:18 +0000

I don’t think Eric quoted me quite right.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:40:26 +0000

This is my last comment on this blog. It was passed along to me that the reason I’ve had so many problems with Christians is because I was a children’s pastor, and shouldn’t have been one at all because I am female.

Honestly, how dare you excuse people’s horrific behavior because of your sexist views. I have absolutely no time to listen to what anyone has to say who so openly practices sexism.

I’ll tell you why I’ve had problems with Christians. Because they were selfish who cared about no one else but themselves. And my experiences that followed showed me how judgmental they are, which has been shown repeatedly on this blog as well. But, I continued coming for conversation.

But, I’m not going to go somewhere in which I will be judged according to my gender and treated like I am lesser than because of my gender. It’s not 1832. Most people in society have begun to realize how ridiculous the sexism of the past is. Religion is one thing that keeps causing it to remain.

By: Kathleen H

Kathleen H — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:33:27 +0000

As my husband and I discussed the other thread last night, we struggled to come up with words to express many of the concepts you so eloquently explained in this post. Well, done, Jeremy.

I would like to add one thing, in relation to the argument that if abortion were illegal, there would suddenly be thousands of women dying in “back-alley” abortion. I know a few young women who have had abortions, some who felt at the time that they had no real alternative, and at least one who had repeated abortions because “birth control didn’t work” for her. I have no doubts, though, that if having an abortion had put their own lives at risk, they would not have done it. If abortion is a self-serving act (as it must be by definition), then that woman is seldom going to sacrifice her well-being to a risky abortion. I’m not saying it would never happen (I’m not that naive), but it would definitely be in lesser numbers than the countless babies being lost every day now.

I know as I write this that I’m not going to convince anyone through my words…only by God’s grace will people have light shone on the truth… but I would like to ask anyone who says that they are “personally against abortion” but still believe that it should be legal, and be an individual choice…

Why are you personally against abortion? What is it about abortion that you don’t like? Do you believe that it is wrong? That a living child’s life is ended? If so, how can it be wrong, and yet you still say that it’s ok? There are some issues in this world on which you have to take a stand, and if you aren’t willing to condemn something, then you must be condoning it.

By: Jeremy Sarber

Jeremy Sarber — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:17:43 +0000

You’re absolutely right, txtransplant. Thanks, Amanda (our future vice president).

By: amanda

amanda — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:34:39 +0000

Extremely well written Jeremy. Spot on!

By: txtransplant

txtransplant — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:13:49 +0000

I always thought of abortion as a basically selfish act—I want to live my life my way without having the inconvenience of a child… Now, I’m starting to wonder if it isn’t also an act of self-hate—no child of mine could really be of enough worth to sacrifice my figure, my life-style, etc.