(November 28, 2015 at 6:51 pm)RaphielDrake Wrote:(November 28, 2015 at 5:04 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I think killing someone in the womb is just as morally wrong and unjust as killing someone out of the womb, but that is precisely why I don't agree with bombing abortion clinics. Or with the death penalty for convicted criminals.
And that doesn't extent to just humans, either. My friend just recently found a pregnant stray cat and took her to the vet to get her kittens aborted. She asked me for money to help pay for it because we are both the neighborhood cat ladies. I told her I would gladly help pay for and find homes for the kittens, but that I would not give her any money for the abortion. She went ahead and did it anyway, which made me sad. If we find stray kittens who need help, we take them in, we feed them, we help them. We do that because life is precious and we have a duty to help and protect the weak and vulnerable. But if they are still in their mom's womb we kill them? There is no difference. There shouldn't be.
Is a bundle of cells without consciousness, without a heart or a brain, without emotion or reason; Is this a human being?
Is methane a fireball? Is water a block of ice? Is anything the thing it is before it has become that thing?
Potential is not substance, it is the chance for something to take form and it is lost as easily as the conviction with which it is pursued.
Noone gets credit for what they could of been, they get it for what they are.
You didn't ask, so I will: after the embryo develops into a fetus, is this a human being, or a least a candidate for being human?
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