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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Father Terrence who wrote (13027)	7/25/2001 1:10:55 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Terrence we are disagreeing about different things. I am saying the fetus is a human being. You are saying it is not a person. I say A, you say not B. The questions that then arise are what is the definition of person and human being and what is the moral significance attached to each. Also how do you define what makes a person? You could say I am giving a greatest benefit of the doubt to the thing that's life is in danger in this situation. I would say that any human being, any member of the species homo sapiens, does have atleast some measure of natural rights that should be respected. In particular I would find this to be true when the human has at least the potential to develop ability to formulate cognitive thought or personality. I would describe the creation of mindless human somas as sickening. Perhaps the best way to determine when it becomes an individual with all the basic rights is when it starts to exhibit brain wave activity commensurate with that in most newborns. What about brain wave activity commensurate with earliest viability? Or any brain wave activity? We use the lack there of as a sign of death. In any case abortion is legal in the US at any point in a pregnancy so your standard would be a move to outlaw some abortions. Are you just floating the idea or do you actually support it? Tim