Dear friends , I am novice to the joynet network and I am totally impressed that such controversial issues such as abortion are being openly discussed on the network.
I think Lina's "anti-abortion: pro-mtp" stand is perfectly reasonable.I see her point of view that scrapping the mtp act may not be a constructive move towards stopping abortions .Infact scrapping the law might only make it more dangerous for all involved in the abortion procedure.Repealing the law would mean only that the mother's life might also be put in the balance along with the child's, while with the law in existence, only the child's life will be endangered. I was also wondering if , as christians, our task was to inform and create an awareness among people, because after all Jesus Christ in the incident with prostitute did not try to amend or change the jewish law condemning the prostitute to death by stoning ,but tried to change people's attitude towards the same by stating that he who has not sinned shall cast the first stone.The point that i am trying to convey is that, as christians, to change a particular pratice in society the method to be adopted might be to convince people rather than to amend the law. Extending the same to the question of abortion,probably our mission should be to change people's attitudes towards abortion rather than to repeal the law. Infact the former might be the more effective way of dealing with the problem Kripa, 2nd year ,LLB Bangalore. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp **************************************************************** This mail is generated from JOYnet, a Jesus Youth mailing list. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to this mailing list, visit http://www.jesusyouth.org/joynet For automatic help, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case of any issue related to the mailing list contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ****************************************************************
