--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 10/26/06 5:51:12 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Based upon my understanding of the Buddhist concept that > > life begins at conception it is complete with spirit.You > > would have to ask them why they believe that. If it is, > > why should they not have the most fundamental right of > > all innocence, life? Who gets to decide when life starts > > and when it needs to end? That is a very dangerous > > position to let anybody have. Better to err on the side > > of caution than set a precedent that can be arbitrarily > > moved about. > > Two questions: Who is endangered by taking this position, > and in what way? And what exactly do you mean by "err on > the side of caution"? What exactly would that involve? > > I'm not sure I understand your first question.
You said (see above), "That is a very dangerous position to let anybody have." I'm asking who is it dangerous *to*, and what exactly is the danger? > To err on the side of caution means if one doesn't know at what > point the fetus is a human being and not a lump of tissue why > would you risk making the mistake of taking it's life. Yes, I understood that. I'm asking what you *do* about this (other than not having an abortion yourself). C'mon, MDixon, stop being evasive. > What man/politician gets to decide when its ok to deliberately > destroy innocent life. Some of us kinda think it's the woman who is pregnant who gets to decide whether she wants to devote her body to nurturing a clump of cells for months and months until it matures into a human being capable of living outside her body. > Can you imagine sometime in the future when health care > dollars are too short and some politicians come up with > the idea that maybe Healthcare benefits need to be > withheld from certain age brackets so the rest can have > better care? Or the only procedure you are allowed is > euthanasia? These would all be post-birth age brackets, right, actual human beings? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
