RE: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion...
March 13, 2013 at 5:52 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2013 at 5:56 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Meh, easy way to kill the whole bit. Neither are moral issues, they are legal issues. Sure, you can moralize endlessly about either and ultimately that's between you and the wall. There are plenty of good reasons why morality and legality are not entirely (or in some cases remotely) synonymous, sufficeth to say that a fetus (here) is not granted legal personhood - which is the thing that confers legal protection. Not that this protection is universal or unassailable, as the other example in the question clearly demonstrates that even with such protections in place your life can still be terminated.
IOW, it doesn't actually matter whether or not a fetus is a human being, as human beings can still be terminated due to circumstance. I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you wanted to really press the issue you'd find a fetus that was terminated through violent crime and attempt to charge that person with murder in the 1st. Not wax on endlessly about whether or not it's moral or immoral, human or not.
IOW, it doesn't actually matter whether or not a fetus is a human being, as human beings can still be terminated due to circumstance. I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you wanted to really press the issue you'd find a fetus that was terminated through violent crime and attempt to charge that person with murder in the 1st. Not wax on endlessly about whether or not it's moral or immoral, human or not.
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