| SkippyPB 2007-05-17, 6:55 pm |
| On Wed, 16 May 2007 10:41:33 -0600, Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net>
wrote:
>On Wed, 16 May 2007 12:29:30 -0400, SkippyPB
><swiegand@Nospam.neo.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
>Actually, the Bible has when the head passes the birth canal. But
>churches are very good at picking and choosing what parts of the Bible
>apply - the poster child of this is in the anti-homosexual tirades.
>
That's what Leviticus (old testment says). There are a few places
where it says it is at conception. I don't have the passages handy.
>
>If it is just a moral "abortion is wrong", then it certainly is a
>woman's decision. If it is determined that an embryo or a fetus is a
>person, then it no longer is just her choice.
>
If it can be definitely stated and proven that an embryo is a person,
then abortion is certainly murder and should be illegal. That level
of definition has not happened, so we are left with our own opinions
and morals on the issue.
>
>That it is a person except in case of rape or incest? or is it that
>"good girls should be allowed to have abortions, but bad girls should
>be punished with motherhood"?
No, I guess the right thing would be to legislate that abortion is
only legal in a case to save the mother's life. No other reason makes
sense.
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