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To: TampaDude; grellis
“If it is our consciousness and self-awareness that make us human, wouldn’t murder be legal through toddlerhood, possibly beyond?”

Big *If*.

We are human because of our DNA. Human egg and human sperm = human being.

Cells growing and dividing= life.

Stopping that life at any stage is murdering a human being.

Consciousness and self-awareness are arbitrary criteria in determining humanness, as is age.

The only reason that anyone would even want to question the humanity of the unborn baby is so that they can do as they wish with that child without (supposedly) fear of moral or legal consequences. If it's not *human*, then it's not murder and our conscience is clear. Except that it is human.

If someone did to a three year old what is done to those babies during an abortion, cutting them limb from limb, burning them to death in a chemical solution, sucking them apart, they would be considered a heinous, sub human monster with no conscience that would be deserving of the death penalty. Yet doctors can do it in the safety and security of an abortion clinic every day and they are protected. Except when they botch the abortion and the victim is born alive, then they can be sued.

So this is what you're in favor of?

721 posted on 04/18/2007 2:10:11 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
So this is what you're in favor of?

I sure hope I've made it perfectly clear that those are not my views.

882 posted on 04/19/2007 5:35:54 AM PDT by grellis (Femininist)
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