[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] AWARE Minutes-10-10-04

[C. G. Estabrook]

Ethics is usually a discussion about who's going to get hurt.  A central
question is, under what circumstances can one end a human life? Some (but
not all) proponents of the view that abortion is ethical avoid the
question by asserting that an unborn child is not a human life, but that
does seem odd to me.

(I take it your two questions are rhetorical, and not serious; no serious
person could answer them affirmatively.)  --CGE


On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, jencart wrote:

> Never could understand why -- if a fertilized ovum is "a human being"
> -- it's okay to "murder" it under ANY circumstances.  It's not like
> pregnancy/having a child is a punishment for a woman's having
> consensual sex, is it??  Or maybe a "child" conceived because of rape
> or incest has a greater measure of original sin and therefore less
> worthy of "living??"
> 
> Jenifer
>