“Politically, what its saying is that the state can mandate who is a person worthy of life.”
Yes. I got into a big argument with someone the other day about it, and he finally got frustrated because I was intractable.
When I argue abortion, I take the word “baby” out of it, and use the word “life.” Once the pro-death crowd admits that whatever is growing inside of the woman is LIFE, I ask them to define when it’s okay in their view to destroy that life. That pins them down a little, because most of them don’t want to come out in favor of killing the unborn one 5 minutes before he or she is due to pop out into the world. However, to me, that 5-minutes-away from birth life is JUST as much a life (the SAME life, in fact) as the one that began 9 months earlier when the first two cells began to split and grow. If they don’t agree... ask them when THEY think it becomes a “life” - three months? Four? Six? -— and why. If you get them to admit it’s been a life all along, then ask them how taking life CANNOT be considered murder.
Anyway, sorry for jumping in in the middle of a discussion.
Good points!
It's not just any life, either. It's HUMAN life. It doesn't grow into anything other than a human being. God designed us that way.
And if it's 'just a piece of tissue' -- then why do they get bothered when they see an ultrasound or an aborted fetus? Too disturbing even for their in-denial psyches? The abortion 'industry' is all about money, power and lifestyle convenience.