RE: If you're pro-life, how far do you take that?
August 6, 2018 at 3:38 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2018 at 3:48 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
For those who may be interested, I have been teasing out my position on a parallel thread. And having made three long, and I believe thoughtful, posts about the topic I don’t want to merely cut-and-paste. Here are the links:
HERE
and HERE...
...and HERE
My intention is to thread hop, to join the more rational and civil conversation here. FWIW the Scholastics, such as Aquinas, did not consider the unborn ensouled until "quickening", that is when the mother feels the movements of the child within her. It was only until Pope Pious IX when the RC Church decided that ensoulment happened at conception. That was in the late 1800's
HERE
and HERE...
...and HERE
My intention is to thread hop, to join the more rational and civil conversation here. FWIW the Scholastics, such as Aquinas, did not consider the unborn ensouled until "quickening", that is when the mother feels the movements of the child within her. It was only until Pope Pious IX when the RC Church decided that ensoulment happened at conception. That was in the late 1800's
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