[Peace-discuss] Re: Immigration Reform Rally!

[Brussel Morton K.]

On Dec 8, 2009, at 10:45 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:

> Whereas those who hold that ending the life of a newborn is murder, but doing
> the same thing a month or so earlier is morally neutral, are just being illogical.  (And perhaps politically driven, to minimize undesirables.)
> 
> The question is, Where in the life-cycle does ending human life becomes no longer acceptable.  Birth?  A month earlier? Three months?  Six?
> 
Yes, and courts (not the theological ones) have pronounced on this issue in considering the rights of the woman who would eventually bear the fetus. It's a human question. That there is a continuous evolution (bad word) in human and fetal development is then recognized and dealt with on reasonable, practical, humane  criteria.   --mkb




> Brussel Morton K. wrote:
>> Those who even believe that a sperm having entered a human egg is equivalent
>> to a developed human (in human rights, etc.), is theologically driven,
>> ludicrous, and beyond ethics or reason.
>> --mkb
>> On Dec 8, 2009, at 10:08 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>>> Mort, as usual, seems particularly interested in theology.  We're talking
>>> about ethics, which doesn't depend on theology.  That's why we all agree
>>> that our ending human lives in Afghanistan is wrong.
>>> Brussel Morton K. wrote:
>>>> Jennifer, you are dealing with theologically frozen minds on this issue.
>>>> The issue should have no place on the peace-discuss website, but fanatics
>>>> will not be restrained. --mkb On Dec 7, 2009, at 8:55 PM, C. G. Estabrook
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> It's a medical procedure that results in the death of a majority of
>>>>> those who undergo it.  That after all is the point of the procedure.
>>>>> --CGE Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
>>>>>> There is only ONE pro-choice argument, so far as I'm concerned: ALL
>>>>>> women should be able to choose whether to continue or terminate a
>>>>>> pregnancy, and because it's a medical procedure, ALL women should
>>>>>> have health insurance that covers termination, should they choose
>>>>>> that...
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