I am pro choice...

[Tommy]

Scott,
I take your use of the phrase "pro choice" and your reference to God's role in pregnancy to mean you are in favor of laws prohibiting abortion based on your religious beliefs. If my assumption is wrong, please disregard everything that follows. If you believe in God and you believe God says abortion is wrong, there are no words I can say to sway you. It would be pointless to try. But I will try to sway your thinking about whether human laws should be used to force people of other beliefs to conform with the religious beliefs of the majority.

Imagine for a moment that Amish people had grown to be a majority of the population in the USA and had used their political power to persuade government to pass laws requiring all to forgo modern conveniences such as automobiles. I'm sure they could come up with rational explanations to disguise the religious basis for their position (e.g., look at how much we save on road construction costs), but would you like it? I wouldn't. And being in the minority now, I don't like putting up with laws based predominantly on the religious beliefs of the majority (e.g., Blue Laws prohibiting alcohol sales on Sunday). So I ask that those of strong religious beliefs do this. Live your own life the best you can and do everything within your own family the way your God directs. But, as this is the USA, please let me and my family live our lives the way we wish. If there is a God to greet you in the afterlife, I suspect he'll be quite pleased with your actions.