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Trumpet the joys of abortions if you want, but don't misrepresent Christian beliefs on the subject. It is incorrect to label Sherri Shepherd's beliefs "irreponsible" and "ignorant" if you don't have the decency to understand them.
Christians believe in the resurrection. They believe that every person who dies comes back again, not as the elderly person who died, or as the fetus, or as the child or teenager, but as a redeemed, perfect being that resembled the person on earth but is also something entirely different. This resurrected being is a perfected form of the human. The deaf can hear, the lame can walk, and so on. A person who dies a quadriplegic is not resurrected a quadriplegic.
In the same way, a killed fetus comes back as a living, and yes, talking being. So what Shepherd is saying is consistent with Christian doctrine. The point of Christian doctrine is that all living humans have a soul, and that soul is perceived by God as "mature," even if the person is physically immature.
If you find Christian doctrine absurd, that's another issue entirely. But given her belief system, Shepherd's assertion is not at all absurd. The point is, if you are going to write about Christian belief, get a book out and learn the first thing about it. C S Lewis discusses this topic repeatedly in his works, most notably in either The Problem of Pain and the Abolition of Man.
