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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (21089)	7/8/2005 10:51:45 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"That is why the cutting of the cord is a good legal definition." No one disputes that birth is a definite event and could be used as a legal determinate, but it fails because of two main reasons. First you admit that; "there is no way to determine the exact second of awareness just as there is no way to determine to the exact second of viability and no practical way to determine the moment of conception." If there is no way to know these things then the logical choice would be to err on the side of caution and not just pick an arbitrary point that is way way past the point of viability. If you see a child that is born and survives at 20 something weeks and is considered fully Human with all the inherent rights, yet people are killing unborn children at 40 weeks there is obviously something wrong with this position. Secondly it is completely arbitrary. One year or six months or three days could all be used just as easily. I disagree BTW that there is no way to know when conception takes place. It is simply a biological fact that conception happens when egg and sperm combine. There is a limited time frame where if it going to happen it will happen. "a fetus which will (if left alone) A fetus, if left alone, will die. It requires a lot of care." More word games.