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To: MHGinTN
law has become (perhaps always has been) transactional in nature where civil law is practiced, that's why they're called 'rulings'.

Are you confusing civil and criminal law? In a civil case the court hears the facts and makes a decision, which might include payment of child support, spousal support etc. What you seem to be advocating is making a failure to automatically provide for the needs of another absent any civil adjudication requiring such behavior into a criminal act. Do you support Good Samaritan laws requiring a witness to take all necessary action to save a life? We do have some laws dealing with an immediate crisis requiring a positive action on the part of one individual to provide aid to another, but making failure to provide months of nourishment and shelter, absent a civil injunction, a crime is unprecedented.

235 posted on 11/26/2001 3:30:57 PM PST by Free the USA
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To: Free the USA
Law is not my strong suit. I merely cited civil adjudication as an example of the transactional nature of our legal system. In the world of Dr. Pangloss, all conceived life would be valued as individual human life and afforded the protection at max the society could give, but to criminalize without clear understanding of the issues is absurd; I agree with you there.

I have as my goal to expose the truth regarding the issues and let my fellow Americans come to an informed decision. What the scientists now seeking to exploit embryonic life stage are trying to accomplish is more of the muddleheaded reasoning, where obfuscation leaves wide gaps in truth which the scientists will then exploit with no regard to whether it is right (as in according to our founding principles) or wrong (as in contrary to the truth regarding human life and our founding principles regarding life endowed by our Creator).

As an aside, I do not believe government has any business dictating to a woman that she cannot practice contraception. However, when a second life comes into being within her body, I weigh the few remaining months until birth against her continued existence and feel the new life should have the nod; we are looking at a few months of inconvenience and difficulties associated with the natural process called pregnancy as weighed against killing that ends an entire lifetime already begun in the preborn! The only way the phrase 'a woman's right to choose' should have any validity when one considers the preborn to be human beings is the absolute right of a woman to not conceive if she doesn't want to! That is reproductive right unalienable, in my honest opinion. But to then extend that right to beyond reproduction, to the serial killing of the already alive individual human beings preborn, is a travesty of reason and anti-life. I will not support such wrong, for a woman's convenience or for scientific exploitation.

240 posted on 11/26/2001 4:52:34 PM PST by MHGinTN
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