(May 28, 2014 at 6:25 pm)Heywood Wrote:(May 28, 2014 at 5:20 pm)Beccs Wrote: And it's my position that:
1. Your definition of what constitutes a human being is based on your own opinion and not accepted medical fact.
2. A living, breathing person should always be given priority over a fetus - a POTENTIAL human - especially before the age of viability
3. That after viability, removing a fetus that is a danger to its mother and letting "nature take its course" - especially when that course is a slow, agonising death - is itself barbaric.
Why is that so hard for you to understand?
1. What constitutes a human being is not a medical fact but rather a fact of biology. A zygote is an organism. It is the starting point in the life cycle of every human being. It is a human being. Pretending that fact of nature doesn't exist isn't going to make it go away. Abortion is the act of one human being killing another....usually for reasons of convenience.
2. You do not take this position. You take the position that only the mother has the right to life and that the fetus has no rights whatsoever.
3. To be consistent in this position requires you to advocate euthanizing anyone who is terminal who can't speak for themselves.
1. Biology: the basis of modern medicine. Hence all doctors are required to study biology. Just because that is your opinion doesn't make it factual. I've already answered the "killing human beings" nonsense and will not do so again.
2. No that's what YOU read into my position. Don't tell me what I think!
3. This is just a desperate attempt to stretch the truth. Try again
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"