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

To: one_less who wrote (20446)	6/15/2005 6:07:18 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"A fetus may be scientifically homo-sapien but does it qualify as a person with a soul, and if so at what point? I doubt that we can make a conclusive determination on that." I have intentionally left the issue of the Soul out of the discussion for the reasons you mentioned. From a strictly materialistic POV the fetus is as much alive and Human as a child, or a teen, or an adult. All humans are by nature also persons. If it is not possible to determine when a Human being becomes a person, then that is all the more reason to error on the side of life in case you are wrong and actually kill a Person unknowingly. Life begins at conception, therefore it should be considered worthy of protection from that point forward unless there is a compelling reason to act otherwise. A clear and direct threat to the mother's life might reasonably be considered to be an an exception but simple inconvenience; NEVER!