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Why People Tolerate Contraceptives but Not Abortion

By Dambrath, published Jul 20, 2008
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To a lot of people the idea of abortion is unacceptable, for either religious or moral reasons. Strangely however most of those same people however don't have a problem with the use of contraceptives. Even most religions are ok with contraceptives but claim that abortion is evil and wrong. Which is something of a contradiction when they basically do the same thing, albeit at different stages.

People tolerate contraception more easily than abortion because they see contraception as a preventative measure, and abortion as killing a life that has already started. Contraception is also used by almost everyone at some point, whereas abortion is usually a result of particular circumstances and isn't something that people encounter on any kind of regular basis.

The main argument that a lot of people put forward against abortion is that every living thing is a creation of god, and so it isn't up to people whether another of god's creatures should live or die. This argument is flawed of course because people not only kill each other in the name of religious wars, and regimes letting people starve, but we all kill and eat animals as well. Not only this but the sheer number of religions in the world means that at least 99.9% of them are wrong anyway.

As well as which contraceptives as much as abortions stop things from being born because they prevent fertilization. Millions more of these events than abortions occur every single day, all over the world, and people only don't stand against them because they are too popular and accepted. So as much as abortions can be seen as prevention of a life entering the world, contraceptives are in reality just the same. And yet most religions don't have a problem with them, which surely undermines their entire argument about abortions in the first place.

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