generalfrevious said:

I wish I could just go back in time and stop that decision from ever being made. There is no safe stance on this issue anymore. The church will rant and rant forever about abortion, and in the end it will be an either/ or situation: the mother or the child. The church says our country permits abortion up until birth; the law says up until viability.

Actually, the "Church" doesn't say that, because the Church is spread across the world, not just America. In Canada, for instance, there are absolutely NO laws restricting abortion. A baby/fetus can be killed up until the moment of birth up here. It is funded by the government and tax payers' money to top it off.

The church says that rape victims have no choice but to carry to term.

The argument for that is summed up as: "why commit a violence because a violence was done to you?" There are problems, but the idea is pretty much that it is better to give a baby up for adoption than to kill it.

I don't what is true anymore. It has become more important in Roman Catholicism than Jesus himself.

I believe Pope Francis has hit the nail on the head with his statements about forgetting about these issues and instead focusing on loving one another.

Middle grounds don't exist anymore: you always have to choose between one of several unpleasant and reprehensible extremes. I hate Christianity and want to kill myself.

Well that's extreme... I pray that you don't actually mean that, GF.