(February 27, 2012 at 2:08 am)Undeceived Wrote: So being biologically connected gives you power over another individual's rights? I don't think Siamese twins are allowed to murder each other.
No one gets an abortion simply because their nutrients are being sapped. A person is a person. You don't want to share your food? Don't have a kid. (You're not arguing about rape victims so neither am I.)
It seems we're having trouble putting a definition on "person," and when a baby becomes one. Think about this: 50% of the time the baby is a different gender from the mother, and 50% of the time they have a different blood type. A pregnant woman goes in for a blood transfusion. She says, "I need A positive for myself and O negative in here." She points to her belly. "And by the way, it's a male." Are you telling me that baby is still only tissue? Where do you draw the line? Is a baby tissue at 24 weeks but a human being at 24 weeks and 1 day? How can you tell?
The siamese twins gambit. Is that another example of gods grace and compassion, horrendous physical deformity? One of the risks that they take if they decide (or their parents decide) to separate is death, so yeah, they actually are. That isn't murder though, and neither is abortion.
How do we decide this? Like so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade
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