Exactly!
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Foetus is Latin for “Baby”.
It’s the very word used in Luke 1:41, where it says, “...the babe leaped in her womb...”, talking about John the Baptist’s in-utero reaction when his Aunt Mary entered the room bearing Jesus in her womb.
Ambiguous definitions and corruption of the language result in the collapse of a culture.
Everyone knows darned well that the fetus is a human being, a human child, a human person, from the first moment of their creation. None of us needs a bioethicist to explain this to us. It’s self-evident.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are CREATED EQUAL, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men...”
— The Declaration of Independence
Which means that, according to the laws of God, according to the first natural law principles of our republic, and according to the absolute, explicit, imperative requirements of our Constitution, the supreme law of our land, they MUST be equally protected.
“No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law.”
— The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
“No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
— The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
“You shall not murder.”
— Exodus 20:13
It’s not optional.
The Tuskegee syphilis study may have become ethically flawed, over time. But it certainly wasn't comparable to anything Mengele did.
I even see wild claims, presented as history, that the Tuskegee doctors deliberately infected men with syphilis. Absolutely not true. The study recruited men who were already infected. These men received care and treatment. Problem was, at the time the study began, there was no effective treatment for syphilis.
Then antibiotics were developed during WWII. Apparently these newly-invented antibiotics were not offered to the men who had enrolled themselves in the study, many years earlier. That was the moral problem with the Tuskegee study.
Would antibiotics, if offered, have helped any of these men, who at that point may have been in the tertiary stage of syphilis? I suspect it was too late for these men to have been helped. Should the new medicine have been offered to them? Probably. Although I think it is debatable whether a doctor should offer medication, when it is very unlikely to help a patient. An analogy might be starting chemotherapy on a patient who is already in final-stage organ failure.
Congress has failed for 45 years to commission the legal definition of when human life begins.
It can only be at conception because there is no other demarkation along the continuum of cell division that can be scientifically established as the point of being human.
No debate in me. Abortion is murder. Period.
It states that vital unpaired organs cannot be obtained unless the donor has died a natural death.
Would natural death include an accidental death like a car crash?
This is what I call the liberals "Poof Theory" of when human life begins (and should be ridiculed at every opportunity):
When a pregnant woman decides she's going to keep her baby, a signal travels from her brain, goes down the spine, worms its way into the womb, and POOF! It's a baby!