So this guy Mourdock said in a debate last night that in cases of rape that cause pregnancy, no abortion should be allowed because the pregnancy "is something that God intended to happen."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ind-gop-senate-candidate-mourdock-stands-by-rape-abortion-comment-says-others-twisted-words/2012/10/24/b495ed04-1df4-11e2-8817-41b9a7aaabc7_story.html
Let's guess: could Mourdock's God possibly be male?
He thinks all "life is a gift from God" Only if the woman's life is in danger should abortion be a legal option.
In the case of rape with resulting pregnancy, a woman is only attacked, physically violated, and forced to put her life on hold for nine months. Therefore, she doesn't deserve a safe and legal way out. Only if she's on the edge of death does she get the abortion.
Mourdock clarified today that he doesn't think God intends rape.
He thought we thought he meant that? He's gets crazier by the minute.
The offense is his statement that the fertilized egg is enshrined with God's love/will/intention/protection from the first second onward--and that it should be protected by the US government.
There are some women who can pull it together to complete a pregnancy begun in rape and love the child. There are others who will put the child up for adoption (good luck, baby).
But to tell all women what they have to do in a difficult situation like this?
Give me a break. A nine-month interruption to a woman's life should be law--no morning-after pill, no simple suction procedure in the first few weeks?
He wants protecting life to include protecting a few cells that could multiply to produce a human being?
He wants government to make this decision for women who are raped and become pregnant?
Last night when asked why God put the serpent in the Garden of Eden, feminist theologian Rita Nakashima Brock speaking in Claremont, CA, said that God's omnipotence is overrated. Rather than trying to explain why God put that snake there, it's better to think that evil occurs but is not part of God's plan.
"The problem is thinking that God is somehow omnipotent," she said.
That's the problem here, too. Saying that God intends every pregnancy that occurs--even by rape, even by incest, even by two teens who have no idea what they are doing--that makes God too all-powerful.
We know God doesn't intend crimes, but neither does God intend human mistakes.
God can make good come out of some of them, says Paul: "We know that all things work together for good to those who love God..." (Romans 8:28).
But God does not intend every event that happens on earth. I get sick, and God intends it? I fall down and break a dish, and God intends it? Pul-eeze.
Perhaps Mr. Mourdock agrees that if I drop a carton of eggs, God does not intend that.
Perhaps he only thinks that God's intention extends to fertilized eggs in my womb. God is very pro-life.
You know, I grant that God likes life in all its infinite variety of forms and shapes and modes of being.
But God has a lot on her plate: every fiber of her being vibrates with the deaths occurring in Syria this week, with the suicides among US soldiers, with women who die in childbirth, with children who are hungry and abused.
You just can't convince me that the Creator of the heavens and the earth cares so deeply about every embryo and ferilized human egg that She/He wants the US government to get involved and override the prayerful, weeping choices made by women who are raped.
Anybody who claims that the will of God and government should override the decision of a woman who has been raped must be worshipping some other god I don't know about.
It sounds like a male god: the Father, whom they have made in their own image.
Last I heard, the worship of a false god is called idolatry.
May the voters of Indiana throw out this idolatrous would-be Senator and elect Joe Donnelly, who in his anti-abortion views at least makes exceptions for women who are raped.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ind-gop-senate-candidate-mourdock-stands-by-rape-abortion-comment-says-others-twisted-words/2012/10/24/b495ed04-1df4-11e2-8817-41b9a7aaabc7_story.html
Let's guess: could Mourdock's God possibly be male?
He thinks all "life is a gift from God" Only if the woman's life is in danger should abortion be a legal option.
In the case of rape with resulting pregnancy, a woman is only attacked, physically violated, and forced to put her life on hold for nine months. Therefore, she doesn't deserve a safe and legal way out. Only if she's on the edge of death does she get the abortion.
Mourdock clarified today that he doesn't think God intends rape.
He thought we thought he meant that? He's gets crazier by the minute.
The offense is his statement that the fertilized egg is enshrined with God's love/will/intention/protection from the first second onward--and that it should be protected by the US government.
There are some women who can pull it together to complete a pregnancy begun in rape and love the child. There are others who will put the child up for adoption (good luck, baby).
But to tell all women what they have to do in a difficult situation like this?
Give me a break. A nine-month interruption to a woman's life should be law--no morning-after pill, no simple suction procedure in the first few weeks?
He wants protecting life to include protecting a few cells that could multiply to produce a human being?
He wants government to make this decision for women who are raped and become pregnant?
Last night when asked why God put the serpent in the Garden of Eden, feminist theologian Rita Nakashima Brock speaking in Claremont, CA, said that God's omnipotence is overrated. Rather than trying to explain why God put that snake there, it's better to think that evil occurs but is not part of God's plan.
"The problem is thinking that God is somehow omnipotent," she said.
That's the problem here, too. Saying that God intends every pregnancy that occurs--even by rape, even by incest, even by two teens who have no idea what they are doing--that makes God too all-powerful.
We know God doesn't intend crimes, but neither does God intend human mistakes.
God can make good come out of some of them, says Paul: "We know that all things work together for good to those who love God..." (Romans 8:28).
But God does not intend every event that happens on earth. I get sick, and God intends it? I fall down and break a dish, and God intends it? Pul-eeze.
Perhaps Mr. Mourdock agrees that if I drop a carton of eggs, God does not intend that.
Perhaps he only thinks that God's intention extends to fertilized eggs in my womb. God is very pro-life.
You know, I grant that God likes life in all its infinite variety of forms and shapes and modes of being.
But God has a lot on her plate: every fiber of her being vibrates with the deaths occurring in Syria this week, with the suicides among US soldiers, with women who die in childbirth, with children who are hungry and abused.
You just can't convince me that the Creator of the heavens and the earth cares so deeply about every embryo and ferilized human egg that She/He wants the US government to get involved and override the prayerful, weeping choices made by women who are raped.
Anybody who claims that the will of God and government should override the decision of a woman who has been raped must be worshipping some other god I don't know about.
It sounds like a male god: the Father, whom they have made in their own image.
Last I heard, the worship of a false god is called idolatry.
May the voters of Indiana throw out this idolatrous would-be Senator and elect Joe Donnelly, who in his anti-abortion views at least makes exceptions for women who are raped.
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