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To: snowstorm12; TArcher
If all it takes to be "OK" is mutual consent and a transfer of money, why, again, is selling babies and children illegal?

There are all kinds of ways to make money which are, nevetheless, inhuman. Porn "actresses" permit themselves to be degraded, violated, and filmed for money; there was a case a couple of years ago in Germany about a guy who "voluntarily" agreed to be killed and cannibalized by another guy: yes, there was a contract and money had been handed over.

Some things have a value which goes beyond money: that would include the sanctity of life; the marital bond, which implicitly involves having sexual relations and offspring only with one's wedded spouse; and the maternal bond, which naturally, intimately, fiercely links a woman to the child she carried and to whom she gave birth.

These bonds are natural forms of attachment, significantly related to human flourishing, which, in wise and civilized societies, are involate in custom and supported by law.

In societies which are in the process of de-civilizing and de-humanizing: not so much.

And to make it all, if possible, worse: handing two baby girls over to a couple of sexually deviant males who will guarantee that these little girls will never know their genetic mother, their gestational mother, a familial mother --- any mother of any sort, ever.

And we--- we're supposed to accept that babies have no human rights. Whose humanity has been tested and found wanting here: theirs? Or ours?

9 posted on 12/29/2012 11:01:21 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("God bless the child that's got his own." Billie Holiday / Arthur Herzog Jr)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
 
These bonds are natural forms of attachment,

That is self-evidently true. 


"...and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. "

--Thomas Jefferson, 1786
http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/sacred/vaact.html
 

10 posted on 12/29/2012 11:24:39 AM PST by TArcher
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