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http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/16425418/detail.html
DENVER -- State election officials say a proposed amendment to the state constitution defining a fertilized human egg as a person has enough petition signatures to get on the November ballot.
DENVER -- State election officials say a proposed amendment to the state constitution defining a fertilized human egg as a person has enough petition signatures to get on the November ballot.
The way I see it, is that a fertilized egg is a human life no different than a 100 year old invalid laying in a nursing home. One is in the very start of human life, the other is the very advanced, end stage. Point A and then Point B.
We can pretty much grow a person or animal from just a fertilized egg at this point.
I'm not touching the political implications because I just don't have a good answer.
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Of course I don't debate when life starts because the issue of bodily integrity has more bearing on abortion than this does, and it's much easier to legally define.
problem I have is if a woman is raped or gets preggo some horrible way and wants abortion, I think she has every right to get one. Life inside her or not.
adoption? why should she have to suffer even more because she was raped (or insest or whatever).
one last point - my sister in law had a miscarriage in the toilet. I'm not sure how far along she was, it wasn't very far. No insurance or anything, she used a spoon and scooped the glob out and buried it in the backyard. No shit. I didn't want any part of that odd situation.
for the record, to me, it doesnt matter what law they put out there.....people will find a way to do what they want anyway!
But seriously, I'm with dave on this one.
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...apparently.
nobody has a right to life. john lockes "natural rights" essay may say otherwise, and i swear by that document but in nature, its not a sin for a bear to kill a rabbit is it? its survival.
just the same as stealing is looked upon differently depending on your situation. and i say that as a person who believes a thief is the lowest of the low.
ive actually contradicted myself in both those statements. my point tho is this, survival comes first. if a baby is killed, consider it collateral damage. who cares if its a life or not? at the point of life we are discussing, that life is the property of the parents to do what they want with, no matter what you or i think is right.
My logical side says we are just animals anyway. There is no natural rights anymore than any other animals.
My human/humane side wonders about it. You can pull a 6 month old baby out of a mother's womb and you will have no doubt that is a person. At 1 second post fertilization not so much. But, that's perspective and it might just be wrong.
and yeah, its a life for sure. a living breathing human if you pull it out at 6 months. but sometimes you gotta crack some eggs to make an omelet. its a cold statement to make but its an efficient way of thinking.
The history of our country warns us against legislating these hot button moral issues. Think about the 18th and 21st amendments. Banning alcohol didn't stop people from drinking, and you can blame it for paving the way for organized crime. The point here is that if you want anything illegal and if you have the money, you can get it.
The heart starts beating 2 weeks after the egg is fertalized. I was involved with an abortion when I was younger and my wife had a late term abortion before I knew her. After we educated ourselfs on abortion it made my wife sick at what she did. 95 % of late term abortions can live outside the womb in an incubater before they are killed.
If more people watched videos or found out more about late term abortions I gaurantee that it would be banned. Another 4 inches and those are breathing babys.
1 Cor 7:9
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