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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (20009)	5/12/2005 3:02:54 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"Show some guts, if you can." Is that necessary? I have not avoided any questions unless they are loaded or misrepresenting of my position. I believe it is morally evil to kill your own children for the sake of convenience at any stage of development. I don't believe there is a graduated scale of human worth that depends on the size of the human being being killed. Do you? It is no less of a crime to kill a grandmother than a child. You have already grudgingly conceded that a new and unique Human life does indeed come into existence at the moment of conception. The onus therefore is on you to justify the taking of that life since you also agree that murder is morally wrong in any other case. So far you have tried to say the unborn are parasites and therefore can be disposed of for any reason but when I pointed out that dependence implies responsibility with suckling children, you said the difference was the location of the child outside of the womans body. Pointing to partial birth abortion as an example of the irrationality of such a position you mentioned some people who talked about "Quickening" however as a strict materialist I know you don't believe a newborn has any more of a soul than an unborn child so I am left wondering how you distinguish between those who are worthy of protection and those who are not. Surely you are not in favor of killing all unwanted children so why again is it OK to kill unwanted fetuses? The objection that those who disagree with abortion on demand must provide personally for every unborn childs financial and physical needs is also completely besides the point of the question which is why can we say it is legitimate to kill a child five minutes before it is born but if you did the same thing five minutes later you would be charged with murder? I have heard no decent answers from you on this at all.