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JUST FOR FUN, let's imagine (1) God exists, (2) God is on your side of the Overall Abortion Debate, (3) God is willing to do something to end it once-and-for-all, and (4) God will review suggestions regarding how to go about doing that.
GIVEN THOSE PARAMETERS, what might you suggest God do, so that your side of the Overall Abortion Debate wins? Please note that while most folks understand that God is able to kill human persons with impunity, most human persons object to such things as Acts of God killing their families (in an earthquake, for example). So, while I'm sure some folks would be willing to suggest that God simply cause all the folks on one side of the Overall Abortion Debate to simply drop dead, even they might not like the consequences (having to clean up millions of sudden corpses everywhere, causing car accidents and plane crashes and other damage to civilization's infrastructure, after which the corpses also start rotting and spawning diseases, due to the time it will take to address the scale of the clean-up operation).
SO: Try to suggest something intelligent and less backfirey. For example: While this particular suggestion kills actual persons, at least they have a chance to change their minds, or even avoid attention: Any woman who publicly opposes abortion is cursed to die of pregnancy complications. Any man who publicly opposes abortion is cursed to have all wives and daughters die of pregnancy complications.
ALTERNATE EXAMPLE: I like this one better because no actual persons are killed: All offspring of those who oppose abortion miscarry. Unfortunately, I can see this having a backfire effect, in that these abortion opponents will want others to be forced to carry to term, so that their offspring can be adopted by the abortion opponents.
SO, THIRD EXAMPLE: God invokes a global plague of human miscarriages, 100% rate, for 40 years. This would make it perfectly clear that God cares not-at-all if a pregnancy does not get carried to term, and that God, regardless of what lying preachers have claimed for thousands of years, does not insist that humans "be fruitful and multiply". Also, since the global death rate from all causes is currently roughly about 50 million per year, after 40 years of no successful births the total global human population would have slowly dropped by about 2 billion, relieving a lot of overpopulation pressure. ALSO, when the plague ends, the global pool of women able to have children will all be 40 years old or older. They generally have to be more careful about having children than 20-year-old women, but most of them could do it just fine. However, many will be in the midst of careers they won't want to interrupt, and at least those will be vehemently against becoming forced breeders by doomsday-blatherers. Besides, plenty of women will want to have offspring, and I fully expect there will be sufficient millions of them to prevent the extinction of the human species, even if global population drops some more over the next 20 years.
GIVEN THOSE PARAMETERS, what might you suggest God do, so that your side of the Overall Abortion Debate wins? Please note that while most folks understand that God is able to kill human persons with impunity, most human persons object to such things as Acts of God killing their families (in an earthquake, for example). So, while I'm sure some folks would be willing to suggest that God simply cause all the folks on one side of the Overall Abortion Debate to simply drop dead, even they might not like the consequences (having to clean up millions of sudden corpses everywhere, causing car accidents and plane crashes and other damage to civilization's infrastructure, after which the corpses also start rotting and spawning diseases, due to the time it will take to address the scale of the clean-up operation).
SO: Try to suggest something intelligent and less backfirey. For example: While this particular suggestion kills actual persons, at least they have a chance to change their minds, or even avoid attention: Any woman who publicly opposes abortion is cursed to die of pregnancy complications. Any man who publicly opposes abortion is cursed to have all wives and daughters die of pregnancy complications.
ALTERNATE EXAMPLE: I like this one better because no actual persons are killed: All offspring of those who oppose abortion miscarry. Unfortunately, I can see this having a backfire effect, in that these abortion opponents will want others to be forced to carry to term, so that their offspring can be adopted by the abortion opponents.
SO, THIRD EXAMPLE: God invokes a global plague of human miscarriages, 100% rate, for 40 years. This would make it perfectly clear that God cares not-at-all if a pregnancy does not get carried to term, and that God, regardless of what lying preachers have claimed for thousands of years, does not insist that humans "be fruitful and multiply". Also, since the global death rate from all causes is currently roughly about 50 million per year, after 40 years of no successful births the total global human population would have slowly dropped by about 2 billion, relieving a lot of overpopulation pressure. ALSO, when the plague ends, the global pool of women able to have children will all be 40 years old or older. They generally have to be more careful about having children than 20-year-old women, but most of them could do it just fine. However, many will be in the midst of careers they won't want to interrupt, and at least those will be vehemently against becoming forced breeders by doomsday-blatherers. Besides, plenty of women will want to have offspring, and I fully expect there will be sufficient millions of them to prevent the extinction of the human species, even if global population drops some more over the next 20 years.
