Nothing personal to all of you anti-folks, but believe it or not, most Americans do not want to outlaw abortion. Sure, partial birth abortion should be outlawed, but preventing women from RU-486 is your agenda, not ours.
You can call me "baby killer" all you want, but most of us do not believe that a 10-day old glob of cells is human. You do; your preacher tells you so. We don't. So vote.
but most of us do not believe that a 10-day old glob of cells is human
"After fertilization has taken place a new human being has come into existence. This is no longer a matter of taste or opinion. Each individual has a very neat beginning, at conception." Dr. Jerome Lejeune, genetics professor at the University of Descartes, Paris. He discovered the Down syndrome chromosome.
"From the moment a baby is conceived, it bears the indelible stamp of a separate distinct personality, an individual different from all other individuals." Ultrasound pioneer, Sir William Liley, M.D. 1967.
"It is scientifically correct to say that an individual human life begins at conception." Professor M. Matthews-Roth, Harvard University Medical School.
"By all the criteria of modern molecular biology, life is present from the moment of conception." Professor Hymie Gordon, Mayo Clinic.
"The fusion of the sperm (with 23 chromosomes) and the oocyte (with 23 chromosomes) at fertilization results in a live human being, a single-cell human zygote, with 46 chromosomes - the number of chromosomes characteristic of an individual member of the human species." http://www.l4l.org/library/mythfact.html
"Scientifically, the international consensus of embryologists is that human beings begin at fertilization (or cloning)--i.e., when their genetic code is complete and operative; even before implantation they are far more than a "bunch of cells" or merely " potential human beings."" http://www.stemcellresearch.org/statement/
"The question as to when a human person begins is a philosophical question - not a scientific question. I will not go into great detail here, but ""personhood"" begins when the human being begins - at fertilization." http://www.l4l.org/library/mythfact.html This objective argument refutes all metaphysical speculations stating otherwise.
With all dubious respect, you don't speak for "most of us", and you sure as hell don't speak for me. If you "get your rocks off" killing, or advocating killing, the unborn, I don't suppose anything will stop you. Your "freedom to kill" is intact.
But do not DARE presume to speak for me, included in "most of us".
If this "glob of cells" continued its growth unhindered, please let us know just what in the hell would pop out in nine months. A human being or a labrador retreiver?
Is a lit match "fire", or does it only count when it has engulfed the house?
"... but most of us do not believe that a 10-day old glob of cells is human."
Does "most of us" include Democrats and other assorted liberals?
"Most of us" conservatives see a developing human being in that "10-day old glob of cells".
Nothing personal to you either, but please save the loaded, canned rhetoric for somewhere else. Most of us here, are quite "pro" in all areas, including "choice" when you are using it in an honest context.
We? Speak for yourself. You certainly don't speak for the majority of Freepers. Nobody needs a preacher to tell them MURDER is wrong.
Baby killer...
You know, it's amazing what short memories we are developing these days. Back in 1964 even Planned Parenthood knew that human life begins at conception. Even so, Margaret Sanger, the Hitlerite anti-minority founder of said group was willing to kill children in the name of Eugenics. Have you ever noticed that most abortion clinics are in predominantly Afro-American neighbourhoods?