<<It does, in fact, have a body, only not one that resembles a human being at the earliest embryonic stages.>>
I assume that means that you are saying that newly joined gametes don't have a brain, but that doesn't matter when deciding whether to force its gestation on an unwilling American citizen using the power of the state;
that they don't have an individual "personality," but that is of no moment when deciding whether to force its gestation on an unwilling American citizen using the power of the state;
but as for a "body," you feel, they do have one of those, the gametes -- except that this kind of "body" just happens not to resemble a human being's body -- being microscopic, consisting of only a few cells, having no head, trunk, internal organs, limbs, flesh, bones, veins, arteries, face, skin, hair, eyes....
What it resembles is some cells. Naturally. But that isn't important in deciding whether to force its gestation on an unwilling American citizen using the power of the government.
But it has something, is your "supporting point," I think, something, a sort of "humanness" you feel is more significant in its existing reality than in its mere potential, a "something" that, as I understand it, makes you think it would be worse to draw a line later than it would be to force a woman to gestate against her will using the power of the government.
But, as I understand you, the thing it has is not a human "soul."
And in spite of its notable lack of resemblance to a human person who DOES have one or two of those minor "extras" -- like a personality, a brain, a head, neck, shoulders, arms, trunk, groin, legs, internal organs, skin, blood, bones, hair, nerves, or senses...
it still has something very very valuable.
So valuable it justifies forcing an unwilling woman to gestate it using the power of the state.
Neocon, how is it that you aren't an academic? It's hard to imagine anyone except an echt academic, or a Jesuit priest, making such an argument!
Actually, I had an idea that you supported a woman's right to choose not to gestate, if she made the decision in the first trimester, but i'm not sure where I got that idea. |
