Thread by NYer.
Almost anyone with a high school education can correctly answer the question “When does human life begin?” by responding “at conception” or at “fertilization” of a human egg by a sperm cell. While we may not understand, or only vaguely recall, the precise process by which an egg and sperm combine to create a new unique human being, this basic truth about human life falls into the category of things we can’t not know.
Yet today, many educated people who do know better assert that human life begins at some later stage of development.
They arbitrarily push forward the starting point to implantation or viability, or even birth and beyond, to accommodate their approval of abortifacient drugs and devices, in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures, lethal embryo research (including embryonic stem-cell research), chemical and surgical abortion, and eugenic infanticide...
Ah, but it’s above the one’s “pay grade” to decide when a living being has civil rights... Obama’s having a little honeymoon right now but he’s the biggest abortionist in D.C. He’s an odd kind of Christian, isn’t he? Does black liberation theology go for abort all the way?
Thread by GonzoII.
ROME, DEC. 4, 2008 (Zenit.org).- The U.N. International Day of Persons With Disabilities focused attention on a convention that aims to stop prejudice against the handicapped, but the agreement is fundamentally flawed, attests the Holy See.
The U.N. day, celebrated Wednesday, had the theme: "Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities: Dignity and Justice for All of Us."
The convention has been signed by 136 member states, but the Holy See is not one of them and will not be if the wording is not changed. This is because in various propositions, the convention leaves the door open to aborting the handicapped because of their disabilities.
Though the Holy See contributed to the preparation of the text, its request to include an explicit rejection of the aborting of the disabled was not accepted...