Rick Perry does it again....

[Autumnlicious]

Had you interpreted my response as written, I did not imply that there is a good cutoff in the womb.

Also, the braindead and anacephalous, which both meet my guidelines of being "not human" through virtue of not even a partial personality, do not deserve rights.

They are more akin to automatons.

But nice attempt at recasting my statement to imply partially cogniscent people like survivors of a severe aneuryism have no right.

I will state it clearly using small words:

If a human form is devoid of a personality, it has lesser to none in rights compared to any human being that has a senblance of personality.

Embryos, fetuses, new born infants all have no cognitive development. Anacephalous and Persistent Vegetative State bodies are functionally lesser.

Unless, of course, you'd like to conjecture basic cognitive development takes place sooner.

Or that the functionally brain dead really aren't brain dead.

Ball's in your court.

My standards are adjustable based on evidence of emergence.

Are yours?

[TaraJo]

There is probably nothing wrong with Texas.

Texans, OTOH, are fucked up beyond belief.

Girl from Houston is now glaring at you, Min.

Really, Texas is suffering from whatever fundamentalist takeover has afflicted the rest of the southern US. The state has been solidly red since the democrats started supporting racial minorities. The state may be rapidly turning purple, though. There's a very large hispanic population here and they tend to vote democrat. The only reason Texas is still a red state is because, traditionally, hispanic voters just don't show up to vote. This last election that changed and the dems got a big boost for it. Now the TX branch of the DNC has been making a concerted effort to get hispanic voters out to vote, which would further empower the democrats.