A Blog Concerning Issues Related to the 5th Commandment

 Abortion 

This subject is tough for me to explain my view on. 

I'm not sure if abortion should necessarily be outlawed. That's taking away personal rights of the woman, and man, if it is the parent's mutual decision. If it is her body, and she is willing to do it, then that is her choice to live with. 

However, I myself, would never choose to do that. Personally, I think that once a baby is conceived, it is a living being. It should be allowed to live, to grow, to learn. I would not be able to kill my own child. 

I may be against taking away someone's right to decide for themselves, but why would someone choose to kill their baby? What instances and/or circumstances would lead one to terminate a pregnancy, and scratch out human life?  

Maybe the excuse is that you feel that you are too young to be a parent, and you would not do a good job at raising a baby. Well if this is the case, then you should not be having sex. Why should an innocent being be punished for your irresponsible decision? 

Or perhaps, the excuse this time is that the baby has a birth defect or some kind of disability, and you don't want to have to make it live that way, or you don't want to have to deal with that. When you make the decision to have sex, you are also accepting the fact that a child could be a possible consequence of this action. You should be able to love and care for that child no matter what. God gave that child whatever "defect" it may have because he knew the child could handle it,  and that you could handle it as well.  

If the child is a result of a rape....it is an unfortunate thing to have happen to any woman, no matter what. But if a baby comes as a result of that, the woman could always give it up for adoption. The woman may not want the baby because it's the "spawn" from the monster that raped her, but by killing a human being, how does that make her any less of a monster? 

If, for whatever reason, you do not want a baby that you are the parent of. Let it live, you may not be able to or want to take care of it, but I'm sure someone out in the world would. Put it up for adoption. 

I guess what I'm getting at here is that people's right to choose should not be taken away, but it doesn't necessarily mean I am for abortion. 

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.  

Everyone deserves the chance to live. You still have your freedom, so make the right choice. 

Self defense 

If someone is coming at you with the blatant intention of harming you in any way, by all means, do whatever it takes to protect yourself. 

This doesn't mean that you should use excessive force in stopping your perpetrator. It should be just enough to stop their attack on you, and safe yourself.  

Embryonic Stem-Cell Research 

I agree with the Church on this issue. It should not be conducting using stem cells from human embryos. If there are other, and equally efficient ways to conduct this research, and there definitely are, then those should be used instead. 

In place of using stem cells from human embryos, and killing the embryo, scientists should try and use umbilical cord blood, adult skin cells, and bone marrow. These methods result in no harm at all to the donor, and the human embryos that would have been killed in the research otherwise, will be able to live.