Monday, May 28, 2012

Abortion

At mass yesterday, my priest brought up the topic of abortion-not surprising for a Catholic. I will layout his specious argument against abortion.  Each of us was put on Earth for a special reason.  Einstein was put on Earth to produce his famous Theory of Relativity. If his parents had aborted him-we would never has the theory.  I disagree that no other scientist would have developed the theory. Calculus was developed independently by Newton and Leibniz.  Neptune was discovered independently by John Couch Adams and Urbain Le Vernier.  We did not abort the person who would have cured cancer, as he claimed.

If we are to argue that a loss of one life can have a negative impact, such as his examples of Einstein and Walt Disney, what about a positive impact.  What if Stalin's parents had an abortion or Mao.  Millions would have been saved. The argument goes both ways.

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