1.) Since the New Testament supercedes the Old Testament, one should not follow the Old Testament's teachings except insofar as they are reiterated in the New Testament. The most important ones are, but many are not.
If you want to use the NEW Testament's prohibitions against killing as your basis for opposing abortion, then fine. But using the Old Testament as a basis for Christian opposition to abortion is not logically consistent.
To clarify: If, as a Christian, you take Mosaic Law (including the Ten Commandments) as your basis for opposition, you are forgetting that Mosaic Law was repudiated by Christ. He said that Mosaic Law was not to be followed after His death. If you continue to take Mosaic Law as your guide, you are in fact practicing Messianic Judaism, and should abide by the precepts of Judaism.
2.) Nope, the woman is still the only one affected by the removal of choice. The fetus is completely UNaffected if abortion is banned -- it gets to live to full-term (assuming nothing happens to cause miscarriage, or that there is no late-term gestational genetic abnormality that results in a non-viable fetus).
This is a woman's issue, and a woman's issue ALONE. |
