Justices: Fetus is not a 'person'

Houston Chronicle ^ | Aug. 29, 2004 | JANET ELLIOTT

[justshutupandtakeit]

Idiot plaintiffs. Where oh, where is John Edwards when their is money to be filched?

[justshutupandtakeit]

Idiot plaintiffs. Where oh, where is John Edwards when there is money to be filched?

[twhitak]

SAVE THE WHALES, KILL THE CHILDREN!

[hocndoc]

http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/opinions/Case.asp?FilingID=17264

Here's the rulings.
If I understand:
At the time of the injury, the new law was not in effect. Justice Smith makes the point that this is not a Roe v. Wade case.

[TOUGH STOUGH]

I don't believe in characterizing the odds worse than what they really are either, which is, in my humble opinion, what Askel does, however sincere she may be about this mis-characterization.

[TOUGH STOUGH]

"However there are more than a few good Christians who are trying. In some small ways momentum is building. Those good Christians DO have a right to proclaim with Christ all things are possible."

Which is the reason God has shown some mercy on our nation; i.e. we have not utterly destroyed ourselves....yet.

[Askel5]

I'm not being gloomy in the least ... I'm merely stating the FACT of the matter.

If you fix the contraceptive mentality among Christians, the rest will follow. It's just the math. Plain and simple.

You can't eat your cake where contraception's concerned and have it too where abortion takes the "right" of Contraception to its only logical and reasonable conclusion.

[cpforlife.org]

Agreed.

[TOUGH STOUGH]

I certainly hope you get to go back.

[Askel5]

=== Which is the reason God has shown some mercy on our nation; i.e. we have not utterly destroyed ourselves....yet.


I'm sure you're going to think I'm a gloomy Gus too but I think the fact we're still "cushioned" somehow from the reality of our destruction wreaked at home and abroad is not exactly an indication of God's mercy.

I think there is an efficacy in suffering to which those faithful who endured 80 years of militant atheist can attest but which we have yet to learn.

[cpforlife.org]

I agree with Askel's 47. Absolutly.

And I believe Askel is NOT characterizing the odds worse than what they really are. In fact in more than a few ways they are worse. If I listed what I know it would crush most people's hopes.

But it does not help the Cause to spend much time on that. It is but dust to God. We can win, with Him.

Better to focus the energy on what can be done in the here and now.

[Askel5]

I wouldn't mind dying there, actually.
I've been fascinated by Russia since I was in 5th grade.

[TOUGH STOUGH]

"I'm sure you're going to think I'm a gloomy Gus too"

After reading my posts I am certain you are just being facetious.

I don't agree with your assessment. That the faithful in other countries, may have deserved the mercy of God as much as or even more than the faithful in our own, is not the point. The point is if we were ALL totally lacking in faith and goodness, he would not have shown us any mercy whatsoever.

[TOUGH STOUGH]

"And I believe Askel is NOT characterizing the odds worse than what they really are. In fact in more than a few ways they are worse. If I listed what I know it would crush most people's hopes."

I strongly disagree with your first sentence.

What do you know? And how do you know that you know more than what other people know?

"But it does not help the Cause to spend much time on that."

Agreed.

[cpforlife.org]

"I wouldn't mind dying there, actually."

ROFLOL--No, Askel's not a gloomy gus!

shall we nickname you SUNSHINE!

[AnimalLover]

When did folks get the notion they not only had a "right" to a child but a "right" to a perfect birth?

It's what the Nazi's tried to create - the MASTER RACE!

[mil-vet]

"A fetus is not a person." Hmmmmm. What is a fetus? A dog? A cat? A horse? Perhaps, surprising and revolutionary as it may seem, it is a human being with, after a surprisingly small number of weeks post-conception, all the electrical activity they look for if an adult is laying on the operating table and they're trying to figure out if said adult is alive or not.

Clearly, the inmates are running the assylum....

[cpforlife.org]

"And how do you know that you know more than what other people know?"

I don't. I'm certain others know far more. I sure hope and pray they do.

[Askel5]

=== The point is if we were ALL totally lacking in faith and goodness, he would not have shown us any mercy whatsoever.


What sort of Old Testament god do you have in mind here?

[Askel5]

=== Better to focus the energy on what can be done in the here and now.


I'm agreed on that, you know.

I guess I'm still unsure that that keeping the truth from folks or allowing them "hope" via "wins" which are heavy on symbol but light on substance may not be the ticket.

It's really only once the truth began to dawn on me that I became the person I am. (Not so "gloomy" in person, you know ... )