I concur with all that you wrote. People are always coming up with reasoning to justify their actions. They are making themselves “gods”. They put their own needs and wants before everything else. Self absorbed—selfish.

Response to “me”: Animals and humans are not the same. All creation was vegetarian…read.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v17/i4/differences.asp
http://bible.com/bibleanswers_result.php?id=167

There is suffering of all sorts in this world. It is all due to the fall of man and the curse. Satan is behind all of it. We should all have a heart for those who are oppressed and afflicted; the poor, the widow, those who are raped, those who are hungry, those who are murdered, beat, enslaved, lost, confused, cheated, hurt, etc. Yes even the unborn!

There is a better way: adoption. So many married couples are unable to have a baby and want one…They gladly will want aborted babies.

By the way a fetus is a life, a baby. Keep saying “tissue” because it sounds better. Go ahead, conform yourself to the ways of this world and be everyone’s puppet even the devil’s. Your flesh wants to have its way so continue to please it and harden your heart to the truth. Yes, that’s a lot better than standing up for what is RIGHT.

The next time you enjoy something so pleasurable (ice cream, a warm bath, a breath of fresh air, a cozy bed), just remind yourself you would have never experienced that had you been aborted.

Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. [The Hebrew words rendered fool in Proverbs denote one who is morally deficient.]

Many of your arguments, about the gruesomeness of abortion, the baby grabbing onto the doctor’s fingers, the heartbeat and brain – apply only to a fetus which is, as you say, more than 40 days old, and even at that age it still more akin to a clump of cells than a baby. So how do those arguments hold for clump of cells that is less than 40 days old? Yes, they are more than just a clump of cells, but why, at that particular age and state of growth are they given more importance than those human beings and creatures that are actually alive and suffering in the world? And why are pro-lifers more concerned about a less than 40 day old fetus than a child of a rape victim who may grow up with all the trauma associated with his parentage and the ill-prepared and pyschologically damaged mother. Not to say that no victim of rape can successfully mother, but if a person feels that she cannot provide adequate emotional and financial support for her child, than it is also an act of love compassion toward the future child to not bring it into a life of misery.
Personally, if someone had aborted me (before 40 days), that would have been okay because I wouldn’t even have had a brain to know that I was supposed to have been born and I wouldn’t have had a heart to feel any sorrow. I’d much rather be saved in that way than to have some pro-lifer force my mother to have me and then abandon all concern for my welfare once I’ve been born, leaving me to struggle through life with emotional trauma, an ill-prepared mother and the whims of adoption