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 : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Street who wrote (125559)	2/6/2001 8:45:54 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Actually, you say "congratulations" as soon as it is ascertained that she is pregnant, generally within a month or two of conception. You have no doubt that the embryo will, uninterrupted, become an infant son or daughter, and therefore that it is a human life at a particular stage of development. You have no doubt that it is an organism distinct from, if dependent on, its mother. That is why even first term abortions should not be legal, even if they are treated less severely than late term abortions. Regardless of stage of development or condition of dependency, the reasons for terminating a human life should be highly restrictive, for example, rape, incest, and preservation of the mother's life. To cavalierly dispose of human life, even at a primitive stage of development, cheapens it and treats it with contempt, which becomes pervasive in our culture. Sentience is not the issue: pain is transient, and even animals that we slaughter for food feel pain. Upholding the dignity and value of human life is the issue. It is rather like the attempt to treat every homicide the same, regardless of whether the victim is a bum or elderly. We don't care if the person is socially useful or close to death anyway, it is simply wrong to take a human life without a highly circumscribed rationale, like self- defense.......