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To: MHGinTN
Here are a few questions for you:

Is life created by human conception or by God?

If life is eternal don't we exist before as well as after human conception, development and death?

If enough people believe birth control is murder should that be put into law? (This is not asking whether YOU believe this particular means of terminating potential human life is murder - it relates to government control of reproductive matters)

Do you think that we have all the information there is about the process of conception, birth and human development?

If it becomes possible to remove and preserve a zygote or a fetus for possible later transplant to another mother to carry to term, how would you feel about that process?

Do you want the government to decide reproductive matters for a family when the potential death of the mother is involved?

195 posted on 06/19/2003 1:13:23 PM PDT by Semper
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To: Semper
Wow! Great questions ... I trust my limitations for answering them will not disappoint too much. [You've asked questions that Philosophers have spent lifetimes addressing; you wouldn't expect a simple man to now sweep them aside definitively, surely.]

Is life created by human conception or by God? Life in the broadest sense is a creation from God, and specifically, the life of every individual living thing on earth has its origin in God. The life force (I call that the soul) is species specific so that a rabbit has a rabbit soul and a bird has a bird soul, etc. The ability of the rabbit organism's chemical and other spacetime limited makeup determines whether the rabbit soul fits the rabbit organism sufficiently to allow a lifetime. [This is deep stuff, hard too!]

If life is eternal don't we exist before as well as after human conception, development and death? Before and after are terms relative to temporal reality. If something has origin in a non-temporal reality and returns to that non-temporal reality, it is somewhat meaningless to speak of beginning or end for the thing not originating in the non-temporal realm. Perhaps that is a definition for type(s) of infinity ... a much more adept math person could shed some light on this.

If enough people believe birth control is murder should that be put into law? (This is not asking whether YOU believe this particular means of terminating potential human life is murder - it relates to government control of reproductive matters) Wow, again! ... The process whereby a notion is written into law at the state level would reflect the majority opinion in that state, hopefully. I don't like the notion of a federal law written to override the states' rights in this regard, but if the science shows a type of birth control (like partial birth abortion) is infanticide, a federal ban is in order given the corruption of our states' rights via the fiat rulings by the SCOTUS. I couldn't address all birth control because there are many categories and some are abortifacient while others are not. [I had a vasectomy deacdes ago, for instance. That is a form of birth control. Perhaps if we narrowed it to contraceptives, I could be more specific and say that contraception is an issue of bodily sovereignty ... I believe no government has the right to disallow a woman OR MAN the option to NOT conceive. How absurd would it be to declare all Catholic Priests must conceive a child, or at least try to? That's illustrative of the 'body sovereignty' notion.]

Do you think that we have all the information there is about the process of conception, birth and human development? No, and I would strongly recommend we research the methods/processes using other higher mammals, rather than early aged individual human beings.

If it becomes possible to remove and preserve a zygote or a fetus for possible later transplant to another mother to carry to term, how would you feel about that process? There is already a program called 'Snoflake Adoption' whereby embryonic individual lives brought into existence via in vitro fertilization yet stored in freezers are adopted for implantation into other women ... by the consent of the parents of the embryonic individuals and the women into whom they are to be implanted. Someday, it will be possible to do what you've noted, but I suspect that even before that day, science will devise an artificail chamber in which to gestate an in vitro fertilized emrbyonic individual tot he 40 week term. it is well under research in Japan and elsewhere already, for use with prized horses and cattle.

Do you want the government to decide reproductive matters for a family when the potential death of the mother is involved? The concept of self defense makes it plain in our society that a woman should have the right to have a pregnancy terminated if it does what you inply. She should not have to go first to the government to obtain permission to save her own life. But that termination should in no way be construed to mean someone has a right to a dead child (the other individual) simply because the woman who is/was giving life support had to end her task.

200 posted on 06/19/2003 1:46:14 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
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