To: AgThorn
The answer to winning the abortion debate does not center around "when life starts" but rather around the issue of "freedom" and where the right to be "free" originates. If freedom is controlled by man, there is in fact no such thing as freedom. If freedom is an "inalienable" right from God, as claimed by our very own Declaration of Independence, then no man can deny it from us. Life itself is the purest form of freedom. If man is in control of "when life begins or ends", then there can be no such thing as freedom. For freedom to exist, life and death must be out of the reach of mankind to decide.
This means that the issue surrounding "when life begins" is not within the scope of man himself to decide. Not if we wish to believe in freedom itself.
To: Uncle Sham
The answer to winning the abortion debate does not center around "when life starts" On that you are precisely wrong IMO. On this mortal coil, it is left to man to decide what is true, and what isn't, or what is problematical. Man may be wrong, but it is his given gift to make wrong judgments. If he is wrong, and there is a higher power, then and only then will it all be sorted out. In the meantime, you will have to argue the factual details in a nation of free conscience. Playing some absolutist trump card is doomed to failure in the public square. Of that much I am fairly confident.
25 posted on
11/24/2001 2:41:33 PM PST by
Torie
To: Uncle Sham
"For freedom to exist, life and death must be out of the reach of mankind to decide."--
EXCELLENT!!! and the truth.
God is Pro-Choice
36 posted on
11/24/2001 3:42:27 PM PST by
d14truth
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