[MattMusson]

According to Jewish tradition a fetus is not considered viable until it graduates from Medical School.

[MattMusson]

According to Jewish tradition a fetus is not considered viable until it graduates from Medical School.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

It’s stupid making it religious. Just plain murder.

[markomalley]

The dude claims that the Catholic Church didn’t have any teaching on abortion before the 16th Century. BS.

The Catholic Church explicitly proscribed abortion since before the Bible was written. From the Didache (c. 65AD):

“Chapter 2. The Second Commandment: Grave Sin Forbidden. And the second commandment of the Teaching; You shall not commit murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not commit pederasty, you shall not commit fornication, you shall not steal, you shall not practice magic, you shall not practice witchcraft, you shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill that which is born...”

Source: http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/didache-roberts.html

[Telepathic Intruder]

"will likely overturn the constitutional right to an abortion"

Well since there is no constitutional right to an abortion, rightly so. It falls under the 10th amendment instead.

[Robert DeLong]

Historically, abortion was not completely illegal, even in Puritan New England. The first abortion restrictions were enacted in the U.S. in the 1820s.

Because there was no need to, for it was against the Lord's law.

[NetAddicted]

Oh, goodie! Another thoroughly stupid Yapoo article.

[Sacajaweau]

It’s really not a Religious Issue. We all know that murder is wrong except in self defense. Period!!

[piasa]

The old New England argument he uses is like justifying stealing beer from the store by pointing out Mom told you not to steal candy. She didn’t make a rule not to steal beer, after all.

[vpintheak]

I am pro-life because God is.
All a person needs is simple understanding & consideration of human life, to be pro-life. A woman hosts another life for 9 months. A woman doesn’t have a penis because she has a male baby. Not her body.
You don’t have to be religious.

[17th Miss Regt]

a majority of Supreme Court justices will likely overturn the constitutional right to an abortion granted in Roe v. Wade.

If the court granted the right then the court can take it away.

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[fidelis]

Even if I were the most hardcore atheist on the planet, I would still be pro-life. The issue at it’s core is that it is the unjust and savage murder of the most innocent of human lives— the baby inside it’s mother’s womb. This is where every abortion debate should focus. Every other argument against it, no matter how legitimate, is still a secondary diversion to the real issue.

[Jewbacca]

True. Canaanites would have loved abortion.

[TigersEye]

I know what the Buddhist teaching is on when a life begins (conception) but the scientific POV seems a better way to convince a nation of many religions to me.

At the moment of conception a new being comes into existence with the characteristic of constantly replicating its own cells according to the coding of its DNA. It has unique DNA that, with the exception of identical twins, no other being has ever or will ever again have. Those are defining characteristics of a discrete living being. Its DNA is specifically human which categorically makes it a living human being.

The question of whether it has a spirit, a soul or a mind may not be possible to answer with science but science does answer, without equivocation, that it is an individual living human being from the moment of conception or at least very shortly after when the two half-strands of DNA combine.