RE: How do the So-called Prol-Lifers Feel About Teratomas?
April 25, 2015 at 7:04 pm
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2015 at 7:05 pm by Hatshepsut.)
(April 24, 2015 at 7:43 am)polar bear Wrote: In the minds of fundies, a fetus is alive when the first cell splits. I am not sure that 2 cells have a soul...
Yet it's obvious that first cell is alive. It even has its own genome, distinct from the parents.' Why the shrill cries of "mass of cells" anyway? The abortion issue isn't really about whether the fetus is alive, or even whether it has a soul. It's a question of whether the fetus' "right to life" outweighs the "right of women not to be forced to carry unwanted pregnancies." Both of these rights are reasonable. A fetus has a definite interest in its chance to be born whether it's able to articulate that or not. Pregnancy represents a major burden on the mother. Nor do women generally seek abortions in a cavalier way, "for convenience," as we keep hearing from the anti-sin crowd. Roe v. Wade attempts to resolve the conundrum via a compromise with arbitrarily demarked "trimesters." Perhaps unsatisfying to the partisans on all sides, yet workable in our day and age.
