Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : To be a Liberal,you have to believe that..... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (3326)	9/21/1999 9:20:00 AM
From: Null Dog Ago	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6418

Where does morality come from, then? Is it ok to murder? To steal? To rape? I think not. But if a woman has a right to abort a fetus, because it is her body, does this mean a murderer has the right to end a life because it's his body? Does a thief have the right to let his hands wander because it is his body? Does a rapist have the right to force sex on someone because it is his body? To control one's own body does not mean that bad consequences result. Would you give up your life if someone didn't want you? This is a rough question, I know, and some do, so it's not out of insensitivity I post this, but I'm trying to explain my respect for life, the respect to give one a chance. Everyone's had it rough at one point or another, and some of us have had it very rough, but the vast majority of us still want to live despite this. It scares the hell out of me thinking I may never have had a chance if my mother had decided not to have me.

To: Ilaine who wrote (3326)	9/21/1999 2:59:00 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6418

The issue is not whether the fertilized egg is a "baby" but if life is to be held as a sacred commodity (and I do think that is a common belief in our society), at what point does terminating the fertilized egg become homicide or tantamount to it. The belief that "life" begins at conception need not derive from religion but could also derive from the inability of our scientific technology to determine with unerring certainty the exact boundaries of such concepts such as what is "life" and what is "death". How do we know for sure when a fertilized egg becomes a "life" and in the absence of knowing for sure how can we not err on the side of caution if we are to properly value human lives? I do not derive such opinions from religion, but from scientific uncertainty. And I'm damn tired of hearing that those who have the opinion that we should err on the side of life on the issue of abortion are all religious zealots and nut cases. To use your phrase, it makes me very cross. JLA