Life at 8 weeks.
Simply miraculous!
Catholic Ping - please freepmail me if you want on/off this list
Posted on 01/11/2005 12:29:05 PM PST by beavus
Although not properly elaborated upon here, this statement is the crux of the fallacious thinking on the part of many who support anti-abortion legislation. It involves their denial of the fact of space-time continuity.
The simple fact is that there is no point of meaningful transition from non-human-being to human being. The process of conception involves millions of individually similar and insignificant chemical events occuring serially and in parallel. On some time scale, the process appears quite smooth and gradual. Life can be said to exist at specific time points, but it does not start at any point.
So, if anyone askes "When does life start?", the answer is simply, "It doesn't."
In short, there is no poof.
Jeeze, those rotten belligerent activists continually coming to the aid of the unborn
How dare you post this? You defy the democrat party's rigid position that its vast abortion industry in only cleansing wombs of non-viable tissue.
Simply miraculous!
Catholic Ping - please freepmail me if you want on/off this list
Pro-life ping!
Activism based upon a fallacy can be only accidentally moral. No one wants to be both belligerent and wrong. I'm only trying to help.
This would certainly justify those who want to keep a fetus away from second hand smoke.
I could get into the fallacious thinking of the pro-choice activists, but for obvious reasons, it is more interesting on this forum to reveal the problems with the pro-life view.
Well, the case is now made for euthanasia....
If nothing else, keeping a fetus away from second hand smoke shows an active consideration for risk minimization and a strong concern for the health of the fetus. This is true even if smoke has no effect on fetuses.
My second daughter managed to tie a true knot in the cord, not to mention wrapping it three times around her neck.
BERT: Well, the case is now made for euthanasia....
I don't follow. How do you mean?
Life doesn't start; ergo, no life; ergo, nothing to end.
That is precisely the fallacy I'm exposing here. Let me ask you, on the electromagnetic spectrum, where does "red" begin? It doesn't, because red falls along a continuum of electromagnetic wavelengths. Does that mean that there is no red? Of course not.
You (and the many others who fall for this fallacy) have not incorporated into your thinking the concept of continua.
Continua are everywhere in our everyday experience, especially in physics and biology. And yet, this fact is denied by statements such as yours.
So, individual human life does exist, but it does not start. That is the nature of the space-time continuum.
Sounds like my car.
Well, Dr. Singer's case for post-natal abortion is hereby proved every bit as logical as those who promote pre-natal abortion.
Which is to say, not much.
Sounds like my car.
The car didn't stop, either....
Uh, yeah, kinda. LOL!
Well, partruition is dramatic, but it probably has no bearing on the issue of a human's rights, unless the human we are talking about is the mother.
HUH??? I've never seen anything "behave" without its being alive. How could it?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.