God Opposes Abortion

From the offset I'm really not sure what your argument is. You've stated your position, but have not given any real reasons why I should think it is true. "As I've indicated elsewhere, almost all the foundations anti-abortion arguments are badly flawed. One such foundation is the notion that God has a negative opinion of abortion." I'm unaware of any serious pro-life apologist who uses the notion that God is against abortion as a foundational argument for their case. I don't know what arguments you've made against the pro-life position in the past, but I do know that the pro-life position is in fact very simple. As a pro-life supporter, I contend that it is wrong to kill human beings without proper justification. From a scientific perspective, unborn children are unmistakably human beings. Philosophically I contend that there is no morally relevant difference between a human being during pregnancy and a human being after birth. Therefore I conclude that it is morally wrong to intentionally kill an unborn child unless the reasons for doing so would be sufficient to justify killing a human being who has been born. Perhaps you disagree, but that is the pro-life case in a nutshell. I'm unsure why you find it necessary to debate this particular topic about whether or not God is against abortion. "Sure, the Bible and other religious works make various claims that can be interpreted as opposing abortion. But God didn't sit down and write any of those religious works. Humans did. And humans are known to be able to tell lies to benefit themselves." Frankly, this is a suicidal argument because it fails to meet its own criteria of validity. Essentially you are saying that because humans are capable of lying or making errors, we have no reason to believe anything that is written in religious texts. By the same token, however, you are a human being who is capable of lying and making errors. Therefore, I have no reason to believe what you have just said. Your argument just refuted itself. Granted, people can tell lies and make interpretation errors, but you can't simply assume from the offset that they are going to do so. If you were correct in this assertion, we couldn't believe anything that anyone said or wrote down, including what you say or write down. If you are trying to claim that you know all religious texts stating that God is against abortion are the result of human lies and misinterpretation, then the burden of proof rests on you to defend this claim. How do you know that every religious text (and there are quite a few) stating that God is against abortion is the result of human lies and misinterpretation? You have to give reasons as to why you think this is true. To merely assert it to be true is to beg the question. "If this Challenge is accepted, then, based on the title of this Debate, the Contender will be Pro and I will be Con. What evidence can Pro offer, besides the mere claims of various religious works, which were written by self-interested humans, that God opposes abortion?" Once again, this is a suicidal claim. All written works and arguments, religious or not, are written by self-interested humans. Using this logic, I have no reason to believe your claim that God does not oppose abortion. In any case, here is why I believe God opposes abortion. Assuming God exits, he is the ultimate creator of the universe and the ultimate source of moral truth. It is self-evidently true that killing innocent human beings is morally wrong. Therefore, this notion is grounded in God himself, and God opposes human beings killing other innocent human beings. Scientifically and philosophically, the unborn are innocent human beings. Since God opposes the unjust killing of innocent human beings, God opposes abortion. Granted I haven't argued for my position that the unborn are unmistakably innocent human beings, but that was not the purpose of this debate. Any readers interested in this case should check out www.caseforlife.com. "I need to clarify my Debate position a bit. I am against the idea that God opposes abortion. But I am also against the idea that God is pro-abortion. That is, being Con to one notion does not automatically equate to being Pro of the opposite notion." Perhaps that is true in some cases, but in the case of abortion there is simply no middle ground. If the unborn are not human beings, no justification for abortion is necessary; but if they are, no justification is adequate. Either God recognizes the unborn as human beings and thus opposes their unjust killing, or He does not, and he has absolutely no qualms with abortion. Neither of these positions are neutral. I should hope that by now I have demonstrated that there is only one morally relevant question here, "What is the unborn?" How we answer that question is the only relevant information to whether abortion is moral or immoral and therefore whether God opposes it or not. "Personally, I think God is laughing at the stupid humans, perhaps literally rolling in the Heavenly Aisles, over the Abortion Debate. The topic doesn't matter to God at all, because abortion is about human bodies, not human souls." You are free to believe whatever you want, but I simply ask how you know this is true? Did God tell you this? Also, if God is only concerned about human souls and not human bodies, God does not oppose murder in any form. A murderer kills only a person's body and not a person's soul. By your logic, God would therefore not oppose murder. Since this claim is largely counterintuitive, you cannot merely assert it. You must provide reasons for why I ought to believe that this is true. Until you do, you really haven't made an argument at all.