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Be they ever so humble in their origins. Besides, Horton knew that just because he could see someone didn’t mean that person didn’t exist.
Genetically speaking, there is a time before which an individual of a sexually reproducing species does not exist and after which, be it ever so humble, it does. From that moment to the moment of its dissolution it passes through definable stages of development and degeneration. Here are some that apply to us: zygote, embryo, fetus, newborn, infant, toddler, child, pre-adolescent, young adult, mature adult, old-aged. Upon this continuum of development place an asterisk where “it” becomes “human” and perhaps another where its humanity ceases as far as the empirical world is concerned. Many would place the asterisks at conception and death (death defined as the irreversible disruption of the continuum). I do. It is this creature appearing at conception and disappearing at death that is human.
Those less worthy are less equal and therefore we can do with them as we will.
It is amazing to me that nothing was learned from the atrocities of WWII from either the Germans or the Japanese.
If you accede to the naturalistic/secular view that might makes right then no one at all has any human rights.
The strong have every right to murder the weak even if they are adults.
This brave new world is neither very brave or very new..
It's as old as the cult of molek...
"Well, if you have to kill it to keep it from growing, it must be alive."
That is the reason for the desire for government funded stem cell research, to establish the principle of the government choosing to destroy individual humans or classes of humans for the benefit of favored individuals or classes. That is why the push for embryonic and foetal stem cell research in the face of the lack of results from it while adult and umbilical cord stem cell research has already provided useful medical advances without killing people to do it.
Too bad we cannot convince John McCain that everytime an embryeo is sacrificed to this type of research that another human being has been murdered.
This type of political calculation on his part that he apparently thinks is necessary to win the White House, along with his support of Global Warming, attacks against the 1st amendment, voting against tax cuts, etc, is why he will be a horrible President.
He has no leadership skills, only an over-reaching desire to be in the seat of power, and judging by his ever leftward march with respect to his positions on issues near and dear to conservatives, he is willing to sell his soul, if he thinks it is necessary, to gain the white house.
It is the logical progression of the argument but, hoo boy, that is a lot of toothpaste to be put back in the tube.
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Robert George will leave a historical legacy behind him as one of the few academics with the courage to buck the liberal mindsweepers to defend innocent human life.
When this pro-death age passes away, the academic lemmings will be nothing but bad memories-like the German academics who looked the other way, under Hitler, to save their own worthless hides.
Kudos, Professor George! -Doing the thinking and writing the faux scholars refuse to do.
Most people who are opposed to killing unborn children, however, have no problems with harvesting embryonic stem cells from non-fetal sources (say, the placenta, or other tissues which become obsolete when the baby is born).
Sadly though, any attempt to fund such research is routinely killed by the Democrats, because it doesn't serve their goal of sanctifying the most vile and disgusting things one human can do to another.
Some of us pro-life FReepers have been saying this for some time now.
And other pro-abortion FReepers have been arguing against it.
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Of course the HUMAN embryo is human. If not human, what??
WOW! Thank you!!