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| Hot Lava Location: Spokane, WA Posts: 782 | Well, it's finally time for an abortion topic. We all know the facts, so I'll start off with my opinion. I'm a stout supporter of a womens right to choose. As long as a. the embryos go towards stem cell research. b. if the woman is very far along in her pregnancy. Now for all you abortion is killing people, I'll tell you how I view the argument. a. embryos cannot think, and that makes them about as alive as a tree. Anti choice is a basic infringement on a woman basic rights. |
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| Igneous Magma Location: New York City Posts: 739 | I also believe in a Right to Choice (which is not the same as condoning abortion for the sake of having one. That's what contraceptives are for), but your logic bothers me. a) Trees are quite alive (not to mention great machines in the production of oxygen), and are far more developed than embryos. b) I think you mean, "If the woman is NOT very far along in her pregnancy," which - and I know you're oversimplifying - doesn't account for cases when the woman's own mortality is threatened. c - I add my own letters) Stem Cell research is a great benefit, one which many staunch Republicans actually were in favor of, mainly because there are quite a lot of old farts in their ranks who are currently or are soon to be afflicted with the forms of cancer the research is addressing. Of course it's amoral, but the government should not - I repeat, should NOT - be legislating morality. However, it can and should be protecting the lives of its citizens, and this can certainly be placed under that umbrella. d) Which lead us to the fact that embryos can't. They're not citizens. They're not citizens until they're born. They're not even people until they're born. To hold the belief that they are guaranteed the same rights as real, whole, live people is to hold court to medieval values as to the nature of what we're dealing with - ie; miniature beings. There is no medical evidence that they are to be considered individual beings, but there is plenty of medical evidence to the contrary - that they are essentially parasitic of their host until they're born. Which would make sense. Yes, again, it's amoral, but that's for the woman to decide - for she IS a citizen and thus has rights to her body and whatever parasitic beings are within it. . . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |
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| Avatar of Tiamut Location: Dallas, Texas (Irving) Posts: 848 | I suspect that section8 added the letters as an afterthought and did not realize how badly they mangled his point. Rebel OTOH obviously simply hates republicans and will even decide their motives for them if they have the odasity to agree with him. lol But I also do not believe that government has the right to legislate morality. It is ultimately the womans body that is affected and therefore her choice. Right or wrong is irrelevant |
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| Igneous Magma Location: New York City Posts: 739 | Well, how else would you justify in your mind the fact that many of those Republicans have voting records against abortion rights? Of course, there are equally as many old farts in the Dems, too... . . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |
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| Molten Ash Location: USA Posts: 115 | I agree with you guys... Women should have the sole right to do whatever they want to their own bodies... Its as simple as that. <span style='color:gray'><span style='font-family:Geneva'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;line-height:100%'>Kerry/Edwards 2004: He can't make up his mind, but at least he has one.</span></span></span> |
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| Igneous Magma Location: New York City Posts: 739 | Heh. There ain't much of a debate here, is there? Someone go get Fallen Angel... =p . . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |
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| Hot Lava Location: Spokane, WA Posts: 782 | For all those people who believe that God would never condone abortion. In Leviticus if a man punches a woman in the stomach and she has a miscarriage, then the man is not charged withe murder because according to the old testament a unborn baby isn't alive. |
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| Hot Lava Posts: 1,859 | if you are not biologically wired to be able to have an abortion, your opinion on the matter is not worth anything... "I really like this jacket, but the sleeves are much too long..." insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results... |
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| Igneous Magma Location: New York City Posts: 739 | We aren't biologically wired to operate ballistic missiles or play basketball, yet we still do anyway. We aren't biologically wired to do anything but eat, shit, and fuck, and I'm not even sure about fucking. Your point? . . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |
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| Molten Ash Location: Vancouver, BC Posts: 89 | Quote:
exodus 21:22-25: And in case men should struggle with each other and they really hurt a pregnant woman and her children do come out but no fatal accident occurs, he is to have damages imposed upon him without fail according to what the owner of the woman may lay upon him; and he must give it through the justices. But if a fatal accident should occur, then you must give soul for soul, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, branding for branding, wound for wound, blow for blow. | |
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| Molten Ash Location: Vancouver, BC Posts: 89 | Quote:
the word soul translated there was translated from the hebrew word "ne´phesh", which is also translated into "life" | |
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| Molten Ash Location: Vancouver, BC Posts: 89 | http://www.desiringgod.org/library/topics/...n/exodus21.html http://www.errantskeptics.org/Exodus_21_22.htm http://www.str.org/free/commentaries/abort...on/whatexod.htm some are subjective but have a lot of facts to back points up, directly relating to translation from hebrew words. a quick read. |
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![]() Fyrdman Location: Middlesbrough UK Posts: 4,152 | Quote:
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill | |
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| Molten Ash Posts: 63 | When I read such blatant false parsing like the following, I doubt the value of the discussion: For all those people who believe that God would never condone abortion. In Leviticus if a man punches a woman in the stomach and she has a miscarriage, then the man is not charged withe murder because according to the old testament a unborn baby isn't alive. The scriptures also refer to the unborn as children, and the added notation of 'no harm come to her or the child' is ignored by the specious posting. I guess we have yet another example of someone able to twist the Bible to support the wrongheaded notion of the twister. [My recent favorite has been 'He who is without sin ...'] |
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