2./ Well, that counts as knowing, I'd say. I've never known anyone who used meth. Where I used to live, marijuana and cocaine seemed to be the drugs of choice. Here, it's mostly marijuana (and I swear, it's like EVERYONE here uses marijuana, or used to).
3./ See, I can understand your views on abortion. Actually, they remind me very much of another person's.
If you go by the Bible, the life and soul are in the blood (don't ask me the passage, but I'm fairly certain it's in Leviticus, as it's the reason why the Israelites are forbidden from drinking the blood of animals). A foetus doesn't have it's own blood until the 6th week of development. You can add that to your considerations if you want.
Hopefully the support systems will get better with time, so there are less women who think they have to have an abortion, otherwise they won't have any support for raising the child or finding it a home where it can be taken care of. Although I don't know if this will happen, as I once got in an argument with someone online who thought it was "stupid" and "ridiculous" that a Christian charity would give pregnant women and new mothers anything they needed to raise the child through toddler-hood for little or nothing, yet wouldn't offer birth control or abortions. (The annoying part of that argument was that random passers-by proceeded to get on MY case when I argued that the owners of the charity might not agree with abortion, and were instead offering support so that maybe a woman who felt like she had no choice but abortion might reconsider. That, and why should a group focused on providing child care supplies, like formula/food and car seats, provide medical care as well?)
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3./ See, I can understand your views on abortion. Actually, they remind me very much of another person's.
If you go by the Bible, the life and soul are in the blood (don't ask me the passage, but I'm fairly certain it's in Leviticus, as it's the reason why the Israelites are forbidden from drinking the blood of animals). A foetus doesn't have it's own blood until the 6th week of development. You can add that to your considerations if you want.
Hopefully the support systems will get better with time, so there are less women who think they have to have an abortion, otherwise they won't have any support for raising the child or finding it a home where it can be taken care of. Although I don't know if this will happen, as I once got in an argument with someone online who thought it was "stupid" and "ridiculous" that a Christian charity would give pregnant women and new mothers anything they needed to raise the child through toddler-hood for little or nothing, yet wouldn't offer birth control or abortions. (The annoying part of that argument was that random passers-by proceeded to get on MY case when I argued that the owners of the charity might not agree with abortion, and were instead offering support so that maybe a woman who felt like she had no choice but abortion might reconsider. That, and why should a group focused on providing child care supplies, like formula/food and car seats, provide medical care as well?)