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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (17657)	7/16/2001 12:11:43 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"If I am begging the question by considering an unborn human life to pocess rights and deserve protection, you are similarly begging the question by assuming the opposite" NO. NOT TRUE. Social policy derives from facts. The facts of social interest are recorded in our dictionaries, encyclopedias, case law, social convention, etc. As I said: if you wish to discuss whether or not embryos should have rights...fine. That does not beg the question. You state that they have rights because YOU say they do. I find that very interesting, and I will get back to you on it. But in the meantime--your opinion has nothing to do with the fulfillment of social policy! You say they don't have rights because either YOU say they do not OR because someone in a courtroom or someone who wrote a book or encyclopedia article says they do not. Either you are begging the question or you are relying on the authority of another who begs the question. I think you have been intentionally "weaselling." I thing you have been evasive and insincere. I don't think I have been at all evasive, and I know I have been completely sincere in this debate. Tim