IMOO, I think the Left is slowly moving, as fast as is
acceptable, to a sentience definition of humanity, which is to
say, the more counsciousness one possesses, the more 'human'.
Now this is defintely slowed by reactions left over from the
early IQ tests and Nazis, but I think it is definitely coming (If
AI ever get around to being made, they'll bring this to a boil).
If all life truly were sacred and valuable, then they'd find it
pretty hard to justify eating meat, brushing their teeth,
fighting off illnesses (I'm Pro-choice, for anti-biotics!), and
allowing pet pounds to euthanize animals (Don't kill them, give
them up for adoption!). They clearly see sentience as the issue,
but cloak it in religious rhetoric, about man's soul, how the
spirit is what separates a human from an animal etc.
It applies very easily to abortion: the moment it develops a
nervous system, it counts at the very least as much as a dog, or
cat.
Viability isn't a very good criteria Dan, because the date of
viability of pre-emies is constanly moving backwards, and what
precisely is viable? A full-term newborn, abandoned to its own
devices surely isn't viable.
~Maru
> From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sorry, I didn't finish a thought.
>
>
> >
> > But, the legal system doesn't have murky lines....It can't.
> The
> present,
> > enlightened standard, is a full term fetus that is not
> delivered is not
> > human; a delivered 10 week premature fetus is human. It is
> true that
> > biology is
>
> a bit murkey...but I'd argue that, between the two arbitrary
> lines, a more
> consistent arguement could be made for conception than birth.
>
> And, if you agree that persons do not exist for as long as
> there can be
> twinning, then one allows things like morning after pills, but
> not
> abortions performed after a woman knows she is pregnant. In
> short, the
> standards of the left look even more arbitrary than the
> standards of the
> right do to me.
>
> Dan M.
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