Posted on 03/11/2002 12:20:49 PM PST by Quester
Is a baby (fetus) truly an intuder in the womb or is he/she an invited guest?
Hasn't the host acted to send out an invitation?
Would not it be the height of irresponsibility (or worse) for a host to send out invitations, but to hope that nobody shows up ... or even worse, to determine to evict any who respond to the invitation and show up, knowing that such an eviction means certain death for your guest(s)?
Place yourself as a non-Jew in Nazi occupied Europe. You know that the Jews are being hounded and herded by the Nazis, ultimately, to the death. You hear, through the grapevine, that some, in your community, have determined to discretely put the word out on the streets that their homes are available for use as sanctuaries to hide Jews from the Nazis. Those that have done this are quietly being considered 'heroes' in your community. You determine that you would like to be held in such high honor as these, and so, you let it be known that you are willing to take in Jews, as well. But, secretly, you have absolutely no intention of hiding any Jews ... after all, in reality, it would put you in danger and, infringe upon your societal freedoms (after all, Jews in hiding will have needs that only you will have the ability to meet). You hope that no one takes you up on your offer. But, your backup plan is that, if anyone does accept your invitation, you will, at your earliest convenience, discretely contact the Nazis and turn your 'guest(s)' over to them to be taken away to death. Once freed from your emcumbrance, you will put your 'invitation' (to death) back out on the street again.
Is this not immoral behaviour?
He has always told us that in any situation, you would never have more of a burden put upon you than you could bear. That DNA blob you speak so glibbly of was a "gift", he sent that gift to that person for a reason. Billions of those gifts have been sent back to him mangled and "unopened", but they are free now, and they are no longer mangled.
You speak about all of the terrible things these mothers go through, but I'll bet you'll not find one that was not at least given a shot at life. It was not their little bodies that were mutilated and their brains that were scrambled, it was those little blobs, but take comfort for those little souls, for they suffer no more, in case you ever gave a second thought to one of them.
Those chosen mothers will never know the suffering they put the children through, no matter how hard they try. No suffering on earth will ever compare to what they did to those "Babies".
I am sure these are fine sentiments, but they are just as wasted on a one-celled zygote, as they are on a one-celled sperm. Why shouldn't I feel exactly the same way about a wasted sperm as you do about a wasted zygote? Why shouldn't we tear out our hair and weep bitter tears every time I have to deny my god-given lust for becoming strangers? Why shouldn't that be treated as manslaughter, and any woman who resists me as a murderer?
Your friend Mom_Grandmother
I am sure these are fine sentiments, but they are just as wasted on a one-celled zygote, ...What I wonder is ... why you persist in utilizing such highly (purposely?) misleading terminology? You know that by the time any abortion is ever considered, the fetus is long past the one-celled zygote phase. I know you do. We've discussed this before.
I responded to this in post 219, but you did not come back to the issue--I'll be less succinct:
It is not misleading terminology, it is precisely to-the-point terminology--except to those who plan to bury the exact nature of the moral problem in a blizzard of crocodile tears.
May I assume that it is your position that a zygote may be aborted? May a two-celled fertilized human egg be aborted? A four cell? What is the criteria you wish to use? May I assume that you see no moral problem with the morning-after pill? How about a D&C as soon as I miss my period? How about a D&C a week after sex?
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