(March 9, 2016 at 8:04 pm)1994Californication Wrote:bold mineQuote:"In the late 1960's the pro-choice movement made a deliberate, strategic decision to trivialize the abortion debate by dismissing all pro-life arguments as mere Catholic dogma. This made it easy to gloss over the inconvenient, undeniable scientific embryological fact that human life begins at conception in favor of specious arguments regarding church/state separation and accusation that religion "is being forced down our throats." Planned Parenthood today still insists that the question of when life begins is a religious one which varies from woman to woman, apparently mind-dependent rather than reality-dependent. They do draw the line at the old Mayan practice of throwing infants into volcanos, although I don't see why, under their theory, that wouldn't be a protected exercise of religion as well. I've seen more of a reliance on science - embryology, ultrasound - on the pro-life side than on the pro-choice side. In fact, the mainstream pro-choice organizations oppose showing women who are considering abortion ultrasound pictures of the child on the grounds that they are "confusing." It should be noted that the pro-choice side isn't opposed to raising religious arguments when it suits them. Planned Parenthood has hired clergy to promote abortion from a theological standpoint. The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice devotes its very existence to that endeavor. Ironically, even the atheistic Freedom from Religion Foundation employs a religious argument when it comes to abortion - it argues that the practice should be permitted because it isn't expressly forbidden by the Bible."
Not. Change to ....."potential" human life begins at conception....
Define conception. Easiest is fertilization of ovum with sperm. That's a sad definition for human life. That does not take into account of the millions of things that need to take place to develop into a viable human that can sustain life on it's own, even with the aid of medical science.
Want evidence? Look up Molar Pregnancy. Look up Ectopic Pregnancy Stats. Look up the stats for estimate of fertilized eggs that do not implant. Look up fatal birth defects stats (cdc). Go to any pathology web site and look at placental/uterine pathology.
You can give credence to this over simplified wiki essay if you like. I choose not to.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
