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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (6406)2/23/2001 10:11:21 PM
From: average joe  Read Replies (4) of 82486
 
Comic Farce

newadvent.org is not a favorite of mine but it is the official site of the Catholic Encyclopedia which would make it a favorite of the Catholic Church.

To be fair to Aquinas there is no way he could imagine the modern ways devised to dispose terminate and hack up new life. There is really no point even talking about Aquinas or Aristotle with respect to a modern procedure that they had never seen or could imagine.

Obviously human life starts when sperm meets egg. Killing it at two minutes with RU486, two months with an abortion procedure or at two years with a gun is still killing it.

The right or wrong of killing it at any stage is a completely different matter. You can argue that there are too many people in the world therefore terminating a cell cluster, even though immoral since it deprives that cell cluster of a future which contains value is OK. Ok because it provides you with more elbow room, more clean air and more bean sprouts to eat which give your life value. However in doing so you have selfishly imposed your morality on the cell cluster which can't defend itself.

It certainly does not need to be "sentient" or "truly alive" by E's classification to be human. I guess "truly alive" to you would be E burning her bra at a street party. But is that really sentient?
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