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posted by Ruby Arngna'naaq on December 17, 1999 at 10:20:06:
in reply to: Counterpoint... posted by Jack Butler on December 01, 1999 at 19:13:52:
Breath of Life/Who has the right to life? Jack and Sheila: If I have not told you that I am so pleased and grateful for both your ways of thinking that questions - or is it a state of learning lifestyle. Having searched the whole of this website a number of times I am struck by it everytime of its warming/humane learning and thinking. I like, the Biblical King David half sing: "Marvel in awe how amazing and wonderfully made, you have created me." and the hymn going throughmy mind of: "O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder; consider all the world thy hands have made..." And how often I sadly think of the times precious humans have been turned of by His supposed priests/deciples how far we have looked through "the vail" and how oft we deliberately cover the truth, the life and the freedom His son meant to bring. Your questions of when and how did "the breath of life" enter and how does it end and what can we do to prolong the breath of life. I am reminded of: "And God breathed on his creation of dust and soil and he became a LIVING BEING.", and also of words within the same books: "He gave up the ghost..." Again in the same set of Books in Isaiah and again I believe in The Psalms: "I knew you when I formed you in your mother's womb." bein an Inuk, I too, like my anscestral people believe that "abortion only when the life of the mother is in danger." Unlike the feminists and proabortionist know that a fetus is not part of the mother's body otherwise we would all be physically connected to our mothers. As Attuat, one of our late elders once blatently stated: "In many ways us women/mothers are just bags and carriers of another human being." Inuit (most) believe that we have no more right to interrupt/kill a pregnancy than we do in killing another (born) human being. the truth is, we had little to do with being formed, nor of where we were born to so where do we get off snubbing someone else's life? the question is asked: did you decide to be formed and born? If you have no control of your own birth then where do you get off? being a sigle parent, I have to admit I had to answer those very questions and not having killed, and now 24 years later no one know the joy, releif I feel of not having aborted someone who has taught me to give my all. Also in relexion against those whom I know have aborted/ended an embroyo I have a fuller and reer life than they do. Just couple months back, I watched a little 7 year old fight for life after a heart-lung operation, she fought for 36 hours, and watching her dying for water/juice any liquid during those hours was one of the hardest "good for you act" I have ever done. Her fight seemed so ironic when she started to fight fluid build-up around her upper chest around her lungs. during those hours as I prayed I have to admit I had your artworks visible going through my mind - there were times I was at a loss for words - liquid is so needed but too much sure can make physical life very painful, thoughts that some of those breathes might be her last - and watching the oxygen air bag, in-out, in-out, the longest a seconds or so later of out, relief flowing through me. I must admit those 3 weeks were the longest seconds and minuites i have every gone through. For the sake of continueing life/abortion opinion, I also knew taht her life was in jeopardy during the first month of her growth sends shivers and rejection of those kinds of thoughts go through me - can not imagine death of her - how much more richer and and giving I have learned because their lives were spared as they were just beginning to enjoy life. Follow Ups:
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