Well you have to understand that this discussion has been going on here for quite sometime , with some using this forum moire for a pulpit than a true discussion or debate .
I was aware and in the midst of considering the points you raised since you posted , and you are responding to what amounts to my general hope , that every child is a wanted child . I would also go even farther than most and not differentiate , and just say life is a continuous and all sacred . But if one is to approach one of the most intricate and complex debates one could imagine...all too often here I've seen the evangelkical religious pov put forth with confrontational absolutism . This not a subject to be worked thru with subjective sledgehammers and/or with pounding Bibles of moral absolutism.
In the case of life's beginings , that debate will go on and on...yet still there are two entities to consider that of the mother/host and that of the embryo , and your focus is directed more on the embryo as a feeling entity. This ofcourse is again at the heart of one side of the debate , the other the rights of the mother , and all the circumstances in between.
As the one lost post I made here much earlier from one site makes clear, this intricate issue has many looking at it from many pov's....some from the religious and some from the scienctific...and some from the philisophical. Each discipline hopefully will lend clarity to another . When do we consider personhood to begin , sustained coodinated neuralogical developement , whence a soul , the beginnings of sentience & feeling . Which hopefully starts with us .
<<<When Does Human Life Begin?>>> (good)
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This site covers most sides quite well starting with earlier societies and their historical thinkers and the religious /biblical ideas down to current scientific embryological and neurological data ...surrounded also including the phisophical , towards the end .
For me now personally , my feelings somewhere in the middle of what appears to be extremes , with forgetting this is not a perfect world , though so many new modern advances and techniques have challenged us all with the speed they have developed in our current lives .
As with you , posts often get lost or ignored , but on what can be a taxing subject yours was a refreshing input and pov...my purpose is to enage this subject only in kind , without and projected absolutism . There are certainly many out there on the front lines more qualified than I , as well living women .
regards
M
PS: Excuse the typos , working on PC with broken screen this am . |
