I see that no one has really broached the rights of the woman involved yet.
It's like an afterthought w/ the pro-lifers...
get real.....for a hundred years before Roe v Wade we had no trouble understanding that the unborn children were human beings and that abortions could be performed to save the life of the mother....it isn't suddenly complicated now except for the fact that liberals are committed to the concept of freely killing them.....your position is the aberration and it is simply solved by eliminating the bad idea......
It's not that it's complicated. It's that people have used common sense. If embryos/fetuses are human beings there can be no logical justification to kill them just because a woman has a defective body. And it's just as illogical to expect a woman to suffer grave damage by being forced to continue a pregnancy.
That's what I mean by thinking it through. It's fine to say embryos/fetuses are human beings but when we start to apply that rationale things start to fall apart as I've shown in numerous posts.
In the past people simply accepted authority, regardless. People never questioned things like they do today.
Society has advanced. Now people think things through. The days of people in authority simply passing laws and expecting the population to conform are quickly coming to an end. A position has to be logical. Lawmakers are now required to defend their reasoning. That's when/where the courts enter the picture.
That's where so-called activist judges enter the picture. They are judges who think things through and lawmakers are realizing that.
good lord...killing unborn children is about as far removed from common sense as you can get.....It's not that it's complicated. It's that people have used common sense.
If embryos/fetuses are human beings there can be no logical justification to kill them just because a woman has a defective body.
Society has advanced.
You keep inferring that someone is mistakenly calling fetuses and embryos human beings, and we've already established what biological fact says they are. This is not up for debate, it is simply NOT a matter of opinion. A human fetus or embryo, is a human life.... end of discussion on that. Unless you can provide some kind of biological evidence that the life form is not human, or it's not living, then you have to accept it is indeed a human life. Is this sinking in? We can't 'debate' something that isn't debatable! You continue to remain in DENIAL of what is being done here, you want to think a fetus or embryo is something besides what biology tells us it is.
Judges and courts have often gotten things wrong. In the 1800's, black people were not considered "persons" by the courts, they were considered "property" and given NO constitutional rights. Was that right? Neither is this false claim of "a woman's right to choose." A woman shouldn't have the right to choose to kill other human beings. We give that right to very few people in very rare circumstances.
Apple seems to believe that if you take the fertilized egg from a human and put it in a chicken, that you'll get breakfast.
/shrugs.....and?.....I'm not basing my position on the accessibility of "soul".....it's simply an observable scientific truth that there is no rational basis for distinguishing between an unborn child and a birthed one, and therefore, denying rights to one that are afforded to the other is arbitrary and capricious.....
Or at best, he and others like him, think this is a subjective opinion we can have... like we can legitimately have the opinion a tree isn't a tree or an apple is an orange. Biological facts are NOT opinions, there is no debate about what a fetus and embryo are, they are human life. This can't be debated and can't be refuted. It's not a matter of opinion, it's a matter of fact!
Weren't you arguing on the evolution/genesis thread that there is no such thing as a conclusive scientific fact?
I'll dig it up; man, you really could debate with yourself all day...
oh my.....a gotcha post![]()
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"This can't be debated and can't be refuted. It's not a matter of opinion, it's a matter of fact! "
Versus
"Science has never determined a single thing as conclusive fact.
That's a fact!"
and I believe it is the soul that distinquishes humans from other animals...
So did St Thomas Aquinas.
a "soul-less human being" is a non sequitur
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so, what is your alternative.....God emails the souls down at the moment of birth.....or is the soul imparted by means of the doctor's slap on the butt.....do incubator babies have to wait till they are off oxygen to get their souls?......