How ridiculous. Reductio ad absurdum much? But I shall try to treat this proposition seriously.
There are laws against (sometimes) killing the already born (except in Florida, where you can pretty much kill anyone you want)- because people outside of a womb are demonstrably people and bundles of cells are not. Although you can kill people legally in loads of circumstances (self defense, accident, stand your ground, war) and those people are already born people about whom there is no argument they are, in fact, people. When there is some doubt- like a bundle of cells- then you should probably keep your religion in your pants and let women decide for themselves. I don't think we call a bundle of doggy cells a dog, or a fertilized egg a chicken. Now if some people want to call a bundle of human cells a "person"- go ahead, just don't legislate it on other people, because that seems a religious entanglement.
As for the dreaded argument over partial birth abortion- those are rare, and the women who choose to do it (in the cases I am aware of) always do it for very decent reasons- like they don't want to give birth to a baby with no brain- that kind of reason. You might feel, for religious reasons, that a fetus without a brain is a precious gift from God, etc etc- and if you get such a baby yourself, knock yourself out and have it, and watch it die- but some women don't want to do that. And I think they, and their doctor, should make that decision. Not you and the state. |
