05-29-2019, 08:40 AM
(05-29-2019, 06:02 AM)BakertheBeast Wrote: Thanks for the info. That explains it. Its still taking a "life" though.
No more so than drinking a beer killing brain cells. It is a mass of living cells. According to the Bible, breath is what makes a thing living. The first breath is the breath of life, at which time the soul enters the body. This is why if a person causes a miscarriage, they pay restitution to the father/husband of the expectant mother; it is treated as a property crime. If they harm or kill the expectant mother, then it is a more serious crime against a person.
That is, of course, the religious argument. The legal one is that personhood occurs at birth, which is when rights are gained. An unborn fetus holds no rights and therefore the right to liberty of the expectant mother is the right that is to be protected. The unborn hold no legal standing (except for in Alabama, which will probably not be standing very long). Personally, I only care about the legal argument.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
