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Do Black Baby's Lives Matter?

18.7 million black babies killed by abortion.

Blacks comprise 13% of the population.

Blacks comprise 36% of the abortions.

Viewed through any rational lens this would be considered genocide.

But what is more important? The "narrative"? Or human lives?


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Planned Parenthood was the brain-child of a white supremacist, Nazi-collaborating, eugenicist. It is doing, albeit it too slowly, what she wanted.

Abortion is still an unjustified homicide (murder), which those like Snyper refuse to admit in the face of biology, physiology, logic, or any other argument. It is also a eugenicist Nazi's dream, which they also refuse to admit.


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Originally Posted by JoeMama
Do Black Baby's Lives Matter?

18.7 million black babies killed by abortion.

Blacks comprise 13% of the population.

Blacks comprise 36% of the abortions.

Viewed through any rational lens this would be considered genocide.

But what is more important? The "narrative"? Or human lives?


So you want 18.7 million more people plus their babies collecting welfare?




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Originally Posted by antelope_sniper
Originally Posted by JoeMama
Do Black Baby's Lives Matter?

18.7 million black babies killed by abortion.

Blacks comprise 13% of the population.

Blacks comprise 36% of the abortions.

Viewed through any rational lens this would be considered genocide.

But what is more important? The "narrative"? Or human lives?


So you want 18.7 million more people plus their babies collecting welfare?




Come on, AS. Are you saying that it is OK to kill someone if we think they might be on welfare someday? Putting aside from the obvious moral issues raised there for a moment, you must see that that is a very slippery slope, no? After all, suppose we decide that it's OK to kill under employed economists because they might one day go on welfare too. You wouldn't want that, would you?


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That's 18.7 million people that are not on welfare.


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Originally Posted by achadwick
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Do Black Baby's Lives Matter?

18.7 million black babies killed by abortion.

Blacks comprise 13% of the population.

Blacks comprise 36% of the abortions.

Viewed through any rational lens this would be considered genocide.

But what is more important? The "narrative"? Or human lives?


So you want 18.7 million more people plus their babies collecting welfare?




Come on, AS. Are you saying that it is OK to kill someone if we think they might be on welfare someday? Putting aside from the obvious moral issues raised there for a moment, you must see that that is a very slippery slope, no? After all, suppose we decide that it's OK to kill under employed economists because they might one day go on welfare too. You wouldn't want that, would you?


AC,

Now we are into definitions. By our current legal definitions, the vast majority of abortions in this country are legal, and not classified as murder. Just because some may equate the cessation of potential life with murder for religious reasons, does not make it so.

The slippery slope goes both ways. How much of your religious beliefs should you be allowed to force upon others?

Additionally, when you call for an end to individual families being allowed to make their own reproductive choices, you need to think through the consequences of such a policy.

What would be the consequences of 60+ million more unwanted welfare drawing, Hillary voting, gang banging middle school drop outs in this country?


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Originally Posted by Leonten
That's 18.7 million people that are not on welfare.


And their kids.....and grand-kids....


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Have a good night my friend.



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"The slippery slope goes both ways. How much of your religious beliefs should you be allowed to force upon others?

Additionally, when you call for an end to individual families being allowed to make their own reproductive choices, you need to think through the consequences of such a policy."


Playing devil's advocate here for a minute:

Since the Muslims believe that female mutilation and marriage to 12 year old girls is okay, as is rape of non-Muslim women, should we not be able to force our religious-based moral laws on Muslim immigrants?

Regarding families being allowed to make their own reproductive choices by permitting killing of fetuses before birth, then why not give them, say, maybe a year after the birth to decide if they want to terminate the life of their child. By then they will have more information to base their decision on. Some marriages fail within the first year after a birth. Wouldn't life be so much simpler for all parties if that pesky little infant was no longer in the picture?

Slippery slopes can tilt in all directions.


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So you want 18.7 million more people plus their babies collecting welfare?




The average person collects $980.000.00 in welfare benefits in their lifetime. Why not offer 200 grand for a non reversable sterilization procedure. The killing stops, the welfare payout is cut by 3/4s, and democrats end within 2 generations. Adoption becomes mainstream.



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Originally Posted by nifty-two-fifty
"The slippery slope goes both ways. How much of your religious beliefs should you be allowed to force upon others?

Additionally, when you call for an end to individual families being allowed to make their own reproductive choices, you need to think through the consequences of such a policy."


Playing devil's advocate here for a minute:

Since the Muslims believe that female mutilation and marriage to 12 year old girls is okay, as is rape of non-Muslim women, should we not be able to force our religious-based moral laws on Muslim immigrants?

Regarding families being allowed to make their own reproductive choices by permitting killing of fetuses before birth, then why not give them, say, maybe a year after the birth to decide if they want to terminate the life of their child. By then they will have more information to base their decision on. Some marriages fail within the first year after a birth. Wouldn't life be so much simpler for all parties if that pesky little infant was no longer in the picture?

Slippery slopes can tilt in all directions.


You are confusing your secular values for religions ones. Male circumcision has a long history in Judeo-Christianity. Islam just applies this practice to the opposite sex. Not mutilating the gentiles of children is a secular, not a religious value. Same thing with the age of consent. It's a modern secular value, not a religions one.

As for your one year old strawman, you are really equivocating, comparing a mass of undifferentiated cells with a live birth.

As for what the Bible says about the treatment of women and children of different religions, perhaps you should acquaint yourself with Numbers 31 and the Massacre of the Midianites.

And you are still advocating for the addition of 60+ million more unwanted welfare drawing, Hillary voting, gang banging middle school drop outs in this country.



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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/21/j-kenneth-blackwell-black-abortions-a-crisis-in-am/
Note that the author of this piece is a radical black politician, former mayor of Cincinnati, and big within the NAACP.
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Black lives matter” has become the slogan of anti-police protests across the nation, but the target of the protests is so misplaced that the motives of the so-called civil rights leaders behind the movement must be questioned. Do they really care about black lives? Or are they cynically exploiting isolated incidents, such as the death of Michael Brown, to inflame the black population and advance their own political interests?
Today, on the somber anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, it’s time for black leaders to face up to the real danger threatening black lives in America. It isn’t the police. According to an anti-police brutality organization, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, 313 blacks were killed by “police, security guards and vigilantes” in 2013. It isn’t even black criminals, who, as Rudy Giuliani famously pointed out on “Meet the Press,” are responsible for 93 percent of violent deaths among blacks. Sources estimate that between 6,000 and 8,000 blacks are murdered each year.
No, the greatest danger to blacks is found precisely where we ought to be safest: in our mothers’ wombs. In 2010, the most recent year for which statistics are available, 138,539 black babies were aborted.
Thankfully, abortion is on the decline in America, down 3 percent between 2007 and 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Strikingly, the number of surgical abortion clinics has plummeted, from 2,176 in 1991 to 551 today. Nevertheless, the CDC report that in 2010, a staggering 765,651 abortions were performed in the United States. Black women continue to have the highest abortion rate of any ethnic group, with a gruesome 483 abortions for every 1,000 live births.
The bottom line? I’ll say it again: 138,539 black babies, nearly one baby in three, were killed in the womb in 2010.
According to the CDC, between 2007 and 2010, innocent black babies were victimized in nearly 36 percent of the abortion deaths in the United States, though blacks represent only 12.8 percent of the population. Some say the abortion capital of America is New York City. According to LifeSiteNews, the city’s Department of Health reported that in 2012, more black babies were aborted (31,328) than born (24,758). That’s 55.9 percent of black babies killed before birth. Blacks represented 42.4 percent of all abortions.
Legalized abortion is working out exactly as Margaret Sanger intended. Sanger, the founder of the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, was part of the eugenics movement back in the 1930s. Her goal was to use abortion to cull what she considered inferior races from the human gene pool. According to Sanger, “Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.” She opened her first abortion clinics in inner cities, and it’s no accident that even today, “79 percent of Planned Parenthood’s abortion facilities are located in black or minority neighborhoods.”
We mustn’t forget that babies aren’t the only victims of abortion. Sadly, more and more of the mothers are suffering and dying as well. Though many people continue to deny it, the link between abortion and breast cancer has been amply documented, and this deadly consequence of abortion is plaguing greater and greater numbers of black women.
Ironically, black women used to suffer from breast cancer less frequently than white women. Not any longer. The Black Women’s Health Imperative notes that according to an American Cancer Society report, black women now develop breast cancer almost as frequently as whites, and are more likely to die from the disease. LifeSiteNews also cites an American Cancer Society report that black women under age 40 now are more likely to develop breast cancer than their white counterparts. They can thank Margaret Sanger — and some of today’s so-called civil rights leaders.
Sanger relied on black ministers to act as Judas goats leading their sisters to abortion mills. According to LifeSiteNews, Sanger wrote in 1939, “We do not want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten that idea out if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
Some black leaders are still acting as Judas goats today. LifeSiteNews cites black pro-life activist Ryan Bomberger: “Back in 2005, the NAACP praised the high black abortion rate as compared to the percentage of the population at a NARAL fundraising gala. When more black babies are aborted than are born alive in NYC and the NAACP responds by supporting Gov. [Andrew] Cuomo’s radical abortion expansion via the misnamed ‘Women’s Equality Act,’ one can understand how the targeting of minorities continues unabated.”
Abortion is the greatest threat to black lives in America today. People who claim to represent the black community while also abetting the black holocaust — abortion — are hypocrites. Any “civil rights leader” who genuinely believes that “black lives matter” should be working to see that every black baby is accorded the very first civil right — the right to life.
• J. Kenneth Blackwell is a policy board member of the American Civil Rights Union.


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My first CPA, when discussing tax deductions, said it's not what you do it's what you call it.
So if we think of abortions as retroactive birth control, it meets society's needs and relieves guilt. Heck everybody, excluding the Pope are birth control.

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Originally Posted by 4ager
Planned Parenthood was the brain-child of a white supremacist, Nazi-collaborating, eugenicist. It is doing, albeit it too slowly, what she wanted.

Abortion is still an unjustified homicide (murder), which those like Snyper refuse to admit in the face of biology, physiology, logic, or any other argument. It is also a eugenicist Nazi's dream, which they also refuse to admit.

Yeah, I agree a bit... but sure is nice not to have all those extra thugs around.

Although I'd prefer it by repsonsibility IE birth control...


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Originally Posted by 4ager
Planned Parenthood was the brain-child of a white supremacist, Nazi-collaborating, eugenicist. It is doing, albeit it too slowly, what she wanted.

Abortion is still an unjustified homicide (murder), which those like Snyper refuse to admit in the face of biology, physiology, logic, or any other argument. It is also a eugenicist Nazi's dream, which they also refuse to admit.

Yeah, I agree a bit... but sure is nice not to have all those extra thugs around.

Although I'd prefer it by repsonsibility IE birth control...


They don't bother.. Whitey will pay for it.. Our Health System gives out enough free condoms in a year to build a Goodyear blimp out of the latex..


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By our current legal definitions, the vast majority of abortions in this country are legal, and not classified as murder.
As was Germany's final solution.


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The best course of action to reduce abortions is to make birth control readily available and affordable, preventing unwanted pregnancies is pretty simple.

One could also make the financial costs of giving birth a non issue and make the adoption process much easier, basically make it easy to choose life.



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Originally Posted by antelope_sniper
Originally Posted by nifty-two-fifty
"The slippery slope goes both ways. How much of your religious beliefs should you be allowed to force upon others?

Additionally, when you call for an end to individual families being allowed to make their own reproductive choices, you need to think through the consequences of such a policy."


Playing devil's advocate here for a minute:

Since the Muslims believe that female mutilation and marriage to 12 year old girls is okay, as is rape of non-Muslim women, should we not be able to force our religious-based moral laws on Muslim immigrants?

Regarding families being allowed to make their own reproductive choices by permitting killing of fetuses before birth, then why not give them, say, maybe a year after the birth to decide if they want to terminate the life of their child. By then they will have more information to base their decision on. Some marriages fail within the first year after a birth. Wouldn't life be so much simpler for all parties if that pesky little infant was no longer in the picture?

Slippery slopes can tilt in all directions.


You are confusing your secular values for religions ones. Male circumcision has a long history in Judeo-Christianity. Islam just applies this practice to the opposite sex. Not mutilating the gentiles of children is a secular, not a religious value. Same thing with the age of consent. It's a modern secular value, not a religions one.

As for your one year old strawman, you are really equivocating, comparing a mass of undifferentiated cells with a live birth.

As for what the Bible says about the treatment of women and children of different religions, perhaps you should acquaint yourself with Numbers 31 and the Massacre of the Midianites.

And you are still advocating for the addition of 60+ million more unwanted welfare drawing, Hillary voting, gang banging middle school drop outs in this country.




If that "mass of cells" turns into a donkey, then you may have a point, since it doesn't, you don't.


Abortion crosses more than just religious lines. It's a moral issue, or the lack there of. Christians don't have a monopoly on being anti abortion.


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That "mass of undifferentiated cells" has the same exact genetic code that it has when it "differentiates."

Of course, you know full well that the mass of cells is not undifferentiated anyway. But your "argument" fails based on the ontology of the genetic code contained therein.

Abortion is the premeditated unjust act of killing a defenseless human. Start there, and argue for it.

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This is alway the topic that makes us, as conservatives, look like giant hypocrites. We want freedom for all and less government, but at the same time want to control everyone's sexual preference.

If we could just live our lives and let others live there's, it would be tough to beat.


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Originally Posted by DakotaDeer
That "mass of undifferentiated cells" has the same exact genetic code that it has when it "differentiates."

Of course, you know full well that the mass of cells is not undifferentiated anyway. But your "argument" fails based on the ontology of the genetic code contained therein.

Abortion is the premeditated unjust act of killing a defenseless human. Start there, and argue for it.


Now we are into definitions.

What does it mean to be human, and who decides?

Is the Sin of Onan, since it contains your genetic code also the same as a 100 million acts of murder?


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The best course of action to reduce abortions is to make birth control readily available and affordable, preventing unwanted pregnancies is pretty simple.

One could also make the financial costs of giving birth a non issue and make the adoption process much easier, basically make it easy to choose life.



Explain to me how birth control - covered in a myriad of forms by ever health insurance in the nation, and especially by Medicaid, on top of condoms being cheaper than chewing gum - is not already "affordable".

Giving birth is a "non-issue" financially, as those who are most likely to abort are on Medicaid, and the taxpayer covers the costs of birth. Birth is also damned well covered by health insurance.

As to adoption - yes, the process sucks. It's a hell of a lot easier to buy a house or a dog or a car than to adopt a kid. Figure the responsibility, though.


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Originally Posted by antelope_sniper
Originally Posted by DakotaDeer
That "mass of undifferentiated cells" has the same exact genetic code that it has when it "differentiates."

Of course, you know full well that the mass of cells is not undifferentiated anyway. But your "argument" fails based on the ontology of the genetic code contained therein.

Abortion is the premeditated unjust act of killing a defenseless human. Start there, and argue for it.


Now we are into definitions.

What does it mean to be human, and who decides?

Is the Sin of Onan, since it contains your genetic code also the same as a 100 million acts of murder?


Being human is easy. DNA answers that question. When the DNA says "human", you have a human.

Next?


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America needs to understand that our troops are not 'disposable'. Each represents a family; Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Cousins, Uncles, Aunts... Our Citizens are our most valuable treasure; we waste far too many.
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This is alway the topic that makes us, as conservatives, look like giant hypocrites. We want freedom for all and less government, but at the same time want to control everyone's sexual preference.

If we could just live our lives and let others live there's, it would be tough to beat.


Wrong. There is justifiable homicide, which is well defined. Fall within those parameters, and you're good. That has nothing to do with sexual preference.


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Originally Posted by high_country_
This is alway the topic that makes us, as conservatives, look like giant hypocrites. We want freedom for all and less government, but at the same time want to control everyone's sexual preference.

If we could just live our lives and let others live there's, it would be tough to beat.


I think that you, sir, do not understand the argument. It is precisely my desire to let others live their own lives that keeps me firmly in the prolife camp. Here's a hint: children in the womb are people too, not just an undifferentiated mass of cells.

Look, a fetus has human parents so it is human too, right? It is growing so it is alive, right? So it is a living human being with intrinsic value and it is worthy of protection just like me and you, right?

It really not that difficult.


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The best course of action to reduce abortions is to make birth control readily available and affordable, preventing unwanted pregnancies is pretty simple.

One could also make the financial costs of giving birth a non issue and make the adoption process much easier, basically make it easy to choose life.



Explain to me how birth control - covered in a myriad of forms by ever health insurance in the nation, and especially by Medicaid, on top of condoms being cheaper than chewing gum - is not already "affordable".

Giving birth is a "non-issue" financially, as those who are most likely to abort are on Medicaid, and the taxpayer covers the costs of birth. Birth is also damned well covered by health insurance.

As to adoption - yes, the process sucks. It's a hell of a lot easier to buy a house or a dog or a car than to adopt a kid. Figure the responsibility, though.


What percentage of white people will adopt a black baby?

The reality is not very many will.

NeBassman and JoeMamma,

How many black babies have you adopted?


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Originally Posted by DakotaDeer
That "mass of undifferentiated cells" has the same exact genetic code that it has when it "differentiates."

Of course, you know full well that the mass of cells is not undifferentiated anyway. But your "argument" fails based on the ontology of the genetic code contained therein.

Abortion is the premeditated unjust act of killing a defenseless human. Start there, and argue for it.


Now we are into definitions.

What does it mean to be human, and who decides?

Is the Sin of Onan, since it contains your genetic code also the same as a 100 million acts of murder?


Being human is easy. DNA answers that question. When the DNA says "human", you have a human.

Next?


So, a batch of eggs are fertilized in a fertility clinic. Are they now a person? If every single one is not implanted and not brought to term, is that "murder"? How about discarding the unused ones?

And by your DNA standard, flogging the dolphin is not "murder".


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The best course of action to reduce abortions is to make birth control readily available and affordable, preventing unwanted pregnancies is pretty simple.

One could also make the financial costs of giving birth a non issue and make the adoption process much easier, basically make it easy to choose life.



Explain to me how birth control - covered in a myriad of forms by ever health insurance in the nation, and especially by Medicaid, on top of condoms being cheaper than chewing gum - is not already "affordable".

Giving birth is a "non-issue" financially, as those who are most likely to abort are on Medicaid, and the taxpayer covers the costs of birth. Birth is also damned well covered by health insurance.

As to adoption - yes, the process sucks. It's a hell of a lot easier to buy a house or a dog or a car than to adopt a kid. Figure the responsibility, though.


What percentage of white people will adopt a black baby?

The reality is not very many will.

NeBassman and JoeMamma,

How many black babies have you adopted?


Can you address the biology and defend abortion? Must not be able to.

If you're jumping to racism to defend abortion, you've already lost as you are essentially siding with Margaret Sanger in her Nazi-colloborating, white-supremacist, eugenicist utopia.

How many have we adopted? None. Would we? Yes. No question; no hesitation:

How about you?


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Originally Posted by antelope_sniper
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That "mass of undifferentiated cells" has the same exact genetic code that it has when it "differentiates."

Of course, you know full well that the mass of cells is not undifferentiated anyway. But your "argument" fails based on the ontology of the genetic code contained therein.

Abortion is the premeditated unjust act of killing a defenseless human. Start there, and argue for it.


Now we are into definitions.

What does it mean to be human, and who decides?

Is the Sin of Onan, since it contains your genetic code also the same as a 100 million acts of murder?


Being human is easy. DNA answers that question. When the DNA says "human", you have a human.

Next?


So, a batch of eggs are fertilized in a fertility clinic. Are they now a person? If every single one is not implanted and not brought to term, is that "murder"? How about discarding the unused ones?

And by your DNA standard, flogging the dolphin is not "murder".


Masturbation produces only 1/2 the genetic code necessary for life. That's a very poor argument on your part.

The reproductive lab is a better argument. However, it lacks implantation, which is the necessary step to create a human from a fertilized egg.


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Originally Posted by 4ager
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That "mass of undifferentiated cells" has the same exact genetic code that it has when it "differentiates."

Of course, you know full well that the mass of cells is not undifferentiated anyway. But your "argument" fails based on the ontology of the genetic code contained therein.

Abortion is the premeditated unjust act of killing a defenseless human. Start there, and argue for it.


Now we are into definitions.

What does it mean to be human, and who decides?

Is the Sin of Onan, since it contains your genetic code also the same as a 100 million acts of murder?


Being human is easy. DNA answers that question. When the DNA says "human", you have a human.

Next?


So, a batch of eggs are fertilized in a fertility clinic. Are they now a person? If every single one is not implanted and not brought to term, is that "murder"? How about discarding the unused ones?

And by your DNA standard, flogging the dolphin is not "murder".


Masturbation produces only 1/2 the genetic code necessary for life. That's a very poor argument on your part.

The reproductive lab is a better argument. However, it lacks implantation, which is the necessary step to create a human from a fertilized egg.


Sperm cells carry 23 chromosomes. In a human egg or sperm, there are 23 chromosomes, one of which is an X or Y. The number of chromosomes is reduced from 46 to 23 during the process of meiosis

So by your own admission, the measure is not the genetic code, and requires something more.


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Originally Posted by 4ager
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The best course of action to reduce abortions is to make birth control readily available and affordable, preventing unwanted pregnancies is pretty simple.

One could also make the financial costs of giving birth a non issue and make the adoption process much easier, basically make it easy to choose life.



Explain to me how birth control - covered in a myriad of forms by ever health insurance in the nation, and especially by Medicaid, on top of condoms being cheaper than chewing gum - is not already "affordable".

Giving birth is a "non-issue" financially, as those who are most likely to abort are on Medicaid, and the taxpayer covers the costs of birth. Birth is also damned well covered by health insurance.

As to adoption - yes, the process sucks. It's a hell of a lot easier to buy a house or a dog or a car than to adopt a kid. Figure the responsibility, though.


What percentage of white people will adopt a black baby?

The reality is not very many will.

NeBassman and JoeMamma,

How many black babies have you adopted?


Can you address the biology and defend abortion? Must not be able to.

If you're jumping to racism to defend abortion, you've already lost as you are essentially siding with Margaret Sanger in her Nazi-colloborating, white-supremacist, eugenicist utopia.

How many have we adopted? None. Would we? Yes. No question; no hesitation:

How about you?


I'm not the one trying to force my religious values onto others and force them to bear the cost.

Since it is you and those who believe like you attempting to impose your beliefs on others, you should bear the cost.

Annually, about 100,000 kids in the U.S come up for adoption, and only about half are actually adopted. The lowest adoption rates are for black babies, so there's plenty of opportunity if you wish to do so.


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AS,

You keep trying to pin the "religious" label on 4ager and me, but neither of us have used religion based arguments.

What else do you have?


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I'm very much not in favor of abortion, I'm sitting my 42 year old ass with my 11 month old whoopsie. I am however more against having the responsibility to run someone else's life. Most of us can hardly run our own lives well let alone someone else's.



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Let's push your argument to its logical conclusion, OK? You are fine with a mother killing her two hear old toddler because the mother is running her own life, right? After all, most of us can hardly run our own lives well let alone someone else's.

Did I get that right?


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AS,

You keep trying to pin the "religious" label on 4ager and me, but neither of us have used religion based arguments.

What else do you have?


I know both of you well enough to know the role you religion plays in your belief.

There is an organisation of absolutist pro-life atheist, but their membership is smaller than that of the Flat Earth Society.


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It's not about "running someone else's life."

It is about protecting another human's life from murder.

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Let's push your argument to its logical conclusion, OK? You are fine with a mother killing her two hear old toddler because the mother is running her own life, right? After all, most of us can hardly run our own lives well let alone someone else's.

Did I get that right?


Again, more equivocation between a mass of undifferentiated cells and a fully developed person.


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It's not about "running someone else's life."

It is about protecting another human's life from murder.


Again, generally not defined as murder in this country, and you attempting to impose your religious concept of when person hood begin upon others.


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'...to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our POSTERITY...'



My standard response when commenting on this topic is:

'...For the most part Republicans raise up little republicans and Democrats raise up little Democrats....

and, since Roe V. Wade there has been something on the order of 55,000,000 abortions in the USofA.....

And, the lions share of those have been performed on those that call themselves Democrat or Liberal....

That's a lot of swing vote...'



What is amazing is the indignation that follows from the 'buttercups' when presented with the notion that liberals abort more than conservatives.....

It is reported by the Gutzmacher(SP) Institute that more black babies are aborted in NYC than are born.....


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So how long is a fetus really, truly a mass of undifferentiated cells? Biology gives us a very clear and straightforward answer to that question.


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What, exactly, is a "fully developed person"?


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Originally Posted by DakotaDeer
It's not about "running someone else's life."

It is about protecting another human's life from murder.


I don't disagree with you, but what give you the right to decide someone else's fate? Isn't that God's job?

When you see someone spank their kid do you stop them?
Where does the line get drawn?

Again, we try to preach how Republicans are all about freedoms, unless it crosses the religious line, then we aren't.


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Do Black Baby's Lives Matter?

18.7 million black babies killed by abortion.

Blacks comprise 13% of the population.

Blacks comprise 36% of the abortions.

Viewed through any rational lens this would be considered genocide.

But what is more important? The "narrative"? Or human lives?


So you want 18.7 million more people plus their babies collecting welfare?




Come on, AS. Are you saying that it is OK to kill someone if we think they might be on welfare someday? Putting aside the obvious moral issues raised there for a moment, you must see that that is a very slippery slope, no? After all, suppose we decide that it's OK to kill under employed economists because they might one day go on welfare too. You wouldn't want that, would you?


I, for one, do NOT like that slippery slope. After all, what if someday our culture decided that under employed chemical engineers might someday be on welfare so we should kill them to prevent that possibility? No, thanks!

While neither you nor I are presently underemployed, we both have been in the past. (shiver! eek )


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Originally Posted by 4ager
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That "mass of undifferentiated cells" has the same exact genetic code that it has when it "differentiates."

Of course, you know full well that the mass of cells is not undifferentiated anyway. But your "argument" fails based on the ontology of the genetic code contained therein.

Abortion is the premeditated unjust act of killing a defenseless human. Start there, and argue for it.


Now we are into definitions.

What does it mean to be human, and who decides?

Is the Sin of Onan, since it contains your genetic code also the same as a 100 million acts of murder?


Being human is easy. DNA answers that question. When the DNA says "human", you have a human.

Next?


And how do you propose to collect said dna from inside another human?

See, someone's rights have to be violated....either the moms right to choose her fate, or your right to run someone else's life.


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Originally Posted by DakotaDeer
That "mass of undifferentiated cells" has the same exact genetic code that it has when it "differentiates."

Of course, you know full well that the mass of cells is not undifferentiated anyway. But your "argument" fails based on the ontology of the genetic code contained therein.

Abortion is the premeditated unjust act of killing a defenseless human. Start there, and argue for it.


Now we are into definitions.

What does it mean to be human, and who decides?

Is the Sin of Onan, since it contains your genetic code also the same as a 100 million acts of murder?


Being human is easy. DNA answers that question. When the DNA says "human", you have a human.

Next?


And how do you propose to collect said dna from inside another human?

See, someone's rights have to be violated....either the moms right to choose her fate, or your right to run someone else's life.


As I said, you obviously do not understand the argument. It is our responsibility to protect someone else's life that is at issue.

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I absolutely understand.I don't believe in abortion myself, but more than not believing in abortion I believe in minding my own life.

Lots of Christians like to play god. They apparently lack faith that God will be the judge.


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I absolutely understand.I don't believe in abortion myself, but more than not believing in abortion I believe in minding my own life.

Lots of Christians like to play god. They apparently lack faith that God will be the judge.


So, we should not have any laws concerning harm of others? Because God is omniscient and is a just judge?

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Originally Posted by high_country_
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Originally Posted by DakotaDeer
That "mass of undifferentiated cells" has the same exact genetic code that it has when it "differentiates."

Of course, you know full well that the mass of cells is not undifferentiated anyway. But your "argument" fails based on the ontology of the genetic code contained therein.

Abortion is the premeditated unjust act of killing a defenseless human. Start there, and argue for it.


Now we are into definitions.

What does it mean to be human, and who decides?

Is the Sin of Onan, since it contains your genetic code also the same as a 100 million acts of murder?


Being human is easy. DNA answers that question. When the DNA says "human", you have a human.

Next?


And how do you propose to collect said dna from inside another human?

See, someone's rights have to be violated....either the moms right to choose her fate, or your right to run someone else's life.


At what point did I say anything about DNA collection? Oh, that's right, I did not.

The DNA of the child is distinct, and makes it human. There's the point.

It seems that you have no problem with one person terminating the life of another without just cause. I differ on that.


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I absolutely understand.I don't believe in abortion myself, but more than not believing in abortion I believe in minding my own life.

Lots of Christians like to play god. They apparently lack faith that God will be the judge.


So, you'd rather other play God instead? The only people playing God are those killing children without just cause. Once you figure that out, you'll be ahead of the game.


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Originally Posted by antelope_sniper
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It's not about "running someone else's life."

It is about protecting another human's life from murder.


Again, generally not defined as murder in this country, and you attempting to impose your religious concept of when person hood begin upon others.


When does personhood begin according to your take on life?

That is a statement reached either through reason (philosophical) or observation (scientific/physical), not a religious one. A religious/moral decision can then follow. But of course, you know that already. Stop obfusticating and actually engage in a legitimate debate. Are you afraid of losing or something?

Stop providing false information to "bolster" your argument. If you kill a pregnant woman in America, you will be charged with a double homicide in 38 states (a majority) and in over 60 federal crime-types. It's called the Unborn Victims of Violence Act on the federal level, passed in 2004. Public Law 108-212.

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virtually every culture and religion in the world is against abortion. Ain't just Christians.


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I absolutely understand.I don't believe in abortion myself, but more than not believing in abortion I believe in minding my own life.

Lots of Christians like to play god. They apparently lack faith that God will be the judge.


So, you'd rather other play God instead? The only people playing God are those killing children without just cause. Once you figure that out, you'll be ahead of the game.


I'd rather let people choose their own fate. I don't have to sleep with knowing that I killed a fetus nor knowing that I brought a baby with known life threatening problems into the world. .....nor anywhere in between. Site your verses that tell you to be the one who judoes when your neighbor should be unable to make choices, or the one that says you should judge when others make choices.

It's a fundamentalist thing, much like Muslims, they feel the world must conform to their beliefs or suffer.


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What percentage of white people will adopt a black baby?

The reality is not very many will.

NeBassman and JoeMamma,

How many black babies have you adopted?


Two at last count. One is attending Grand Valley State College and the other is still in high school The younger one was considered a "special needs" adoption because he was 3 lb, 3 oz at birth. There were "complications".

And they are not coffee with a lot of cream. They are semi-sweet chocolate brown. Just getting ahead of your next question.


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I absolutely understand.I don't believe in abortion myself, but more than not believing in abortion I believe in minding my own life.

Lots of Christians like to play god. They apparently lack faith that God will be the judge.


So, you'd rather other play God instead? The only people playing God are those killing children without just cause. Once you figure that out, you'll be ahead of the game.


I'd rather let people choose their own fate. I don't have to sleep with knowing that I killed a fetus nor knowing that I brought a baby with known life threatening problems into the world. .....nor anywhere in between. Site your verses that tell you to be the one who judoes when your neighbor should be unable to make choices, or the one that says you should judge when others make choices.

It's a fundamentalist thing, much like Muslims, they feel the world must conform to their beliefs or suffer.


Great. So, when does the child get to determine their own fate? It's not a fundamentalist thing; it's a logical and consistent thing. The parents made a host of choices that led to the pregnancy. Any one of those choices prior could have prevented it. Once it happens, it's a human life. There is no legal, logical, or rational reason to kill another human without just cause - and inconvenience isn't a just cause.


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If you kill a pregnant woman in America, you will be charged with a double homicide in 38 states (a majority) and in over 60 federal crime-types.
It's called the Unborn Victims of Violence Act on the federal level, passed in 2004. Public Law 108-212.



Kill her & unborn maliciously and premeditated?
Kill her & unborn maliciously but not premeditated?
Kill her & unborn because as a driver on illicit drugs & alcohol you pass out and run over her?
Kill her & unborn because as a driver you had a heart attack at the wheel and unintentionally run over her?
Kill her & unborn in justifiable self-defence because she was a violent ice-addict who directly and intentionally
presented as an imminent threat to your life?

Not all those acts of 'killing' a pregnant woman are necessarily deemed as criminal or heinous,( or as) heinous
as another in the eyes of the law.


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The point is: the unborn are considered "human" for matters of crimes against others. Abortionists here are trying to say that the unborn child is not human, and claiming that American jurisprudence backs that assertion. It does not.

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Planned Parenthood was the brain-child of a white supremacist, Nazi-collaborating, eugenicist. It is doing, albeit it too slowly, what she wanted.

Abortion is still an unjustified homicide (murder), which those like Snyper refuse to admit in the face of biology, physiology, logic, or any other argument. It is also a eugenicist Nazi's dream, which they also refuse to admit.


Bullshit.
You just want to force your standards on everyone else, when it's really none of your business.

You'd make a good ISIS recruit.
They like forcing their beliefs on others just like you.
They just aren't as hypocritical about it as you.

And don't waste your time on a reply because I only see your drivel when someone quotes it, since I've heard all the same bullshit from you already.


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The point is: the unborn are considered "human" for matters of crimes against others. Abortionists here are trying to say that the unborn child is not human,
and claiming that American jurisprudence backs that assertion. It does not.


Ok, well are there any of those 38 states you tell of, that have the Unborn Victims Violence Act,
but that also allow legal abortion?



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virtually every culture and religion in the world is against abortion. Ain't just Christians.


correction: sections of virtually every culture and religion in the world are against abortion.
You could also say virtually every diiferent nation, culture or religion, each has a section of its people either pro , neutral ,or against guns.
there are Christians (but not just Christians) ,who are either pro, neutral or oppose on gun ownership or abortion, correct?


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Let's push your argument to its logical conclusion, OK? You are fine with a mother killing her two hear old toddler because the mother is running her own life, right? After all, most of us can hardly run our own lives well let alone someone else's.

Did I get that right?

No you haven't gotten anything right.

You know that's an irrational argument to begin with since it advocates doing something illegal.

You won't get it right until you realize you only get to control what you do, not what anyone else does.


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Planned Parenthood was the brain-child of a white supremacist, Nazi-collaborating, eugenicist. It is doing, albeit it too slowly, what she wanted.

Abortion is still an unjustified homicide (murder), which those like Snyper refuse to admit in the face of biology, physiology, logic, or any other argument. It is also a eugenicist Nazi's dream, which they also refuse to admit.


Bullshit.
You just want to force your standards on everyone else, when it's really none of your business.

You'd make a good ISIS recruit.
They like forcing their beliefs on others just like you.
They just aren't as hypocritical about it as you.

And don't waste your time on a reply because I only see your drivel when someone quotes it, since I've heard all the same bullshit from you already.


You've run from the argument every time, because you cannot refute biology, logical, philosophy, or morality.

Run away again; it's the only play you have.


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Let's push your argument to its logical conclusion, OK? You are fine with a mother killing her two hear old toddler because the mother is running her own life, right? After all, most of us can hardly run our own lives well let alone someone else's.

Did I get that right?

No you haven't gotten anything right.

You know that's an irrational argument to begin with since it advocates doing something illegal.

You won't get it right until you realize you only get to control what you do, not what anyone else does.


Reverting to legalism? Great; that could be used just as easily to justify and excuse slavery, or the Holocaust, as both of those were legal at the time. Female genital mutilation, the stoning of homosexuals and of women even accused of adultery, or just walking without a male relative as a chaperone, are also legal in parts of the world. Your reliance on legalism to excuse any action justifies those.

As to the "controlling only what one does, and not that of another" is exactly the point - the child is a human and ought to have the same rights as any other. You, and those like you, take those rights away from the child based upon mere convenience. Slavery has nothing on that.

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What percentage of white people will adopt a black baby?

The reality is not very many will.

NeBassman and JoeMamma,

How many black babies have you adopted?


Two at last count. One is attending Grand Valley State College and the other is still in high school The younger one was considered a "special needs" adoption because he was 3 lb, 3 oz at birth. There were "complications".

And they are not coffee with a lot of cream. They are semi-sweet chocolate brown. Just getting ahead of your next question.


Nope, there was no next question.

I applaud you for living your convictions, choosing to personally shoulder the associated costs and burdens to make a difference. Willingly taking on a special needs adoption takes special kind of person. I hope you kids bring you much joy and happiness.


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The problems that the defenders of abortion face start with biology, followed by logic, and the Constitution (supported by philosophy and morality).

First, they must try to deny the biological fact that the child is human, which cannot be done. Logically, then, that child must be a distinct human and therefore a person, which they must also attempt to deny and that denial fails.

If the child is, in fact, a human and therefore a person, then it ought to be protected by the Constitution as would any other person. To deny this goes against the philosophical and moral underpinnings of American culture that holds that all men/persons are created equal, and that all are entitled to the life, livery, and the pursuit of happiness. In order for the pro-abortion stance to be justified, they must deny those rights to the child and they must hold that the mother has rights beyond that of any other person (that to simply kill another person for mere convenience). Those are anathemas to the Constitution and to the foundation of American freedoms.

In the end, they are left with having to defend an indefensible position that denies biology and logic, goes against the Constitution and thus the moral and philosophical basis of America, and they must hold that some are created inferior to others while others are created superior to the rest. To base a position like that, justified only by legalism echoes perfectly with the claims of slave traders, Nazis, Chinese communists, and the most hard-line of Islamists. They will, of course, attempt to deny this as well, but facts prove plainly otherwise.


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Do Black Baby's Lives Matter?

18.7 million black babies killed by abortion.

Blacks comprise 13% of the population.

Blacks comprise 36% of the abortions.

Viewed through any rational lens this would be considered genocide.

But what is more important? The "narrative"? Or human lives?


So you want 18.7 million more people plus their babies collecting welfare?




Come on, AS. Are you saying that it is OK to kill someone if we think they might be on welfare someday? Putting aside the obvious moral issues raised there for a moment, you must see that that is a very slippery slope, no? After all, suppose we decide that it's OK to kill under employed economists because they might one day go on welfare too. You wouldn't want that, would you?


I, for one, do NOT like that slippery slope. After all, what if someday our culture decided that under employed chemical engineers might someday be on welfare so we should kill them to prevent that possibility? No, thanks!

While neither you nor I are presently underemployed, we both have been in the past. (shiver! eek )


AC, historically, if a person remained unemployed and unproductive for too long starvation resolved the issue for them.

As for your example, I consider it invalid for a couple different reasons. What you are describing is a government intervening to end peoples lives where I"m advocating restraint upon the government intervention into the affairs of families. Once again I do not accept your false equivalence between an embryo and an adult Chemical Engineer.


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Planned Parenthood was the brain-child of a white supremacist, Nazi-collaborating, eugenicist. It is doing, albeit it too slowly, what she wanted.

Abortion is still an unjustified homicide (murder), which those like Snyper refuse to admit in the face of biology, physiology, logic, or any other argument. It is also a eugenicist Nazi's dream, which they also refuse to admit.


Bullshit.
You just want to force your standards on everyone else, when it's really none of your business.

You'd make a good ISIS recruit.
They like forcing their beliefs on others just like you.
They just aren't as hypocritical about it as you.

And don't waste your time on a reply because I only see your drivel when someone quotes it, since I've heard all the same bullshit from you already.


You've run from the argument every time, because you cannot refute biology, logical, philosophy, or morality.

Run away again; it's the only play you have.


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Originally Posted by 4ager
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Let's push your argument to its logical conclusion, OK? You are fine with a mother killing her two hear old toddler because the mother is running her own life, right? After all, most of us can hardly run our own lives well let alone someone else's.

Did I get that right?

No you haven't gotten anything right.

You know that's an irrational argument to begin with since it advocates doing something illegal.

You won't get it right until you realize you only get to control what you do, not what anyone else does.


Reverting to legalism? Great; that could be used just as easily to justify and excuse slavery, or the Holocaust, as both of those were legal at the time. Female genital mutilation, the stoning of homosexuals and of women even accused of adultery, or just walking without a male relative as a chaperone, are also legal in parts of the world. Your reliance on legalism to excuse any action justifies those.

As to the "controlling only what one does, and not that of another" is exactly the point - the child is a human and ought to have the same rights as any other. You, and those like you, take those rights away from the child based upon mere convenience. Slavery has nothing on that.


Once again.


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Originally Posted by 4ager
Planned Parenthood was the brain-child of a white supremacist, Nazi-collaborating, eugenicist. It is doing, albeit it too slowly, what she wanted.

Abortion is still an unjustified homicide (murder), which those like Snyper refuse to admit in the face of biology, physiology, logic, or any other argument. It is also a eugenicist Nazi's dream, which they also refuse to admit.

You are correct. Her name was Margaret Sanger. She founded the American Birth Control League, later morphed into Planned Parenthood, a more P.C. sounding name.

Libs think she was great because they don't know who she was or what she espoused. She wasn't too Politically Correct, but what do facts matter when it's the agenda that rules.

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The problems that the defenders of abortion face start with biology, followed by logic, and the Constitution (supported by philosophy and morality).

First, they must try to deny the biological fact that the child is human, which cannot be done. Logically, then, that child must be a distinct human and therefore a person, which they must also attempt to deny and that denial fails.

If the child is, in fact, a human and therefore a person, then it ought to be protected by the Constitution as would any other person. To deny this goes against the philosophical and moral underpinnings of American culture that holds that all men/persons are created equal, and that all are entitled to the life, livery, and the pursuit of happiness. In order for the pro-abortion stance to be justified, they must deny those rights to the child and they must hold that the mother has rights beyond that of any other person (that to simply kill another person for mere convenience). Those are anathemas to the Constitution and to the foundation of American freedoms.

In the end, they are left with having to defend an indefensible position that denies biology and logic, goes against the Constitution and thus the moral and philosophical basis of America, and they must hold that some are created inferior to others while others are created superior to the rest. To base a position like that, justified only by legalism echoes perfectly with the claims of slave traders, Nazis, Chinese communists, and the most hard-line of Islamists. They will, of course, attempt to deny this as well, but facts prove plainly otherwise.


Your argument falls at it's first premise.

An embryo is not a child, it is an embryo.


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The problems that the defenders of abortion face start with biology, followed by logic, and the Constitution (supported by philosophy and morality).

First, they must try to deny the biological fact that the child is human, which cannot be done. Logically, then, that child must be a distinct human and therefore a person, which they must also attempt to deny and that denial fails.

If the child is, in fact, a human and therefore a person, then it ought to be protected by the Constitution as would any other person. To deny this goes against the philosophical and moral underpinnings of American culture that holds that all men/persons are created equal, and that all are entitled to the life, livery, and the pursuit of happiness. In order for the pro-abortion stance to be justified, they must deny those rights to the child and they must hold that the mother has rights beyond that of any other person (that to simply kill another person for mere convenience). Those are anathemas to the Constitution and to the foundation of American freedoms.

In the end, they are left with having to defend an indefensible position that denies biology and logic, goes against the Constitution and thus the moral and philosophical basis of America, and they must hold that some are created inferior to others while others are created superior to the rest. To base a position like that, justified only by legalism echoes perfectly with the claims of slave traders, Nazis, Chinese communists, and the most hard-line of Islamists. They will, of course, attempt to deny this as well, but facts prove plainly otherwise.


Your argument falls at it's first premise.

An embryo is not a child, it is an embryo.


Is the DNA human, or not? The embryonic stage is very short, between conception and implantation, and abortion does not occur during this stage. The embryo, once implantation takes place, is a HUMAN fetus, by definition a human offspring, ergo a child. That's biology, and undeniable, though you must try to deny it as everything else stems from it.


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The problems that the defenders of abortion face start with biology, followed by logic, and the Constitution (supported by philosophy and morality).

First, they must try to deny the biological fact that the child is human, which cannot be done. Logically, then, that child must be a distinct human and therefore a person, which they must also attempt to deny and that denial fails.

If the child is, in fact, a human and therefore a person, then it ought to be protected by the Constitution as would any other person. To deny this goes against the philosophical and moral underpinnings of American culture that holds that all men/persons are created equal, and that all are entitled to the life, livery, and the pursuit of happiness. In order for the pro-abortion stance to be justified, they must deny those rights to the child and they must hold that the mother has rights beyond that of any other person (that to simply kill another person for mere convenience). Those are anathemas to the Constitution and to the foundation of American freedoms.

In the end, they are left with having to defend an indefensible position that denies biology and logic, goes against the Constitution and thus the moral and philosophical basis of America, and they must hold that some are created inferior to others while others are created superior to the rest. To base a position like that, justified only by legalism echoes perfectly with the claims of slave traders, Nazis, Chinese communists, and the most hard-line of Islamists. They will, of course, attempt to deny this as well, but facts prove plainly otherwise.


Your argument falls at it's first premise.

An embryo is not a child, it is an embryo.


Is the DNA human, or not? The embryonic stage is very short, between conception and implantation, and abortion does not occur during this stage. The embryo, once implantation takes place, is a HUMAN fetus, by definition a human offspring, ergo a child. That's biology, and undeniable, though you must try to deny it as everything else stems from it.


Does an embryo have consciousness? The ability to react to stimuli and feel pain or comfort?



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The problems that the defenders of abortion face start with biology, followed by logic, and the Constitution (supported by philosophy and morality).

First, they must try to deny the biological fact that the child is human, which cannot be done. Logically, then, that child must be a distinct human and therefore a person, which they must also attempt to deny and that denial fails.

If the child is, in fact, a human and therefore a person, then it ought to be protected by the Constitution as would any other person. To deny this goes against the philosophical and moral underpinnings of American culture that holds that all men/persons are created equal, and that all are entitled to the life, livery, and the pursuit of happiness. In order for the pro-abortion stance to be justified, they must deny those rights to the child and they must hold that the mother has rights beyond that of any other person (that to simply kill another person for mere convenience). Those are anathemas to the Constitution and to the foundation of American freedoms.

In the end, they are left with having to defend an indefensible position that denies biology and logic, goes against the Constitution and thus the moral and philosophical basis of America, and they must hold that some are created inferior to others while others are created superior to the rest. To base a position like that, justified only by legalism echoes perfectly with the claims of slave traders, Nazis, Chinese communists, and the most hard-line of Islamists. They will, of course, attempt to deny this as well, but facts prove plainly otherwise.


Your argument falls at it's first premise.

An embryo is not a child, it is an embryo.


Is the DNA human, or not? The embryonic stage is very short, between conception and implantation, and abortion does not occur during this stage. The embryo, once implantation takes place, is a HUMAN fetus, by definition a human offspring, ergo a child. That's biology, and undeniable, though you must try to deny it as everything else stems from it.


Does an embryo have consciousness? The ability to react to stimuli and feel pain or comfort?



See the above you quoted re: embryonic stage.

To further answer your rather irrelevant question; the reaction to stimuli occurs very early in human development, within the first month which is generally before a mother knows she is pregnant.

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At what point does consciousness begin? It certainly well beyond the embryonic stage.


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The point is: the unborn are considered "human" for matters of crimes against others. Abortionists here are trying to say that the unborn child is not human, and claiming that American jurisprudence backs that assertion. It does not.


No, they are not.

They are considered either an embryo or a fetus depending upon their stage of development.


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The problems that the defenders of abortion face start with biology, followed by logic, and the Constitution (supported by philosophy and morality).

First, they must try to deny the biological fact that the child is human, which cannot be done. Logically, then, that child must be a distinct human and therefore a person, which they must also attempt to deny and that denial fails.

If the child is, in fact, a human and therefore a person, then it ought to be protected by the Constitution as would any other person. To deny this goes against the philosophical and moral underpinnings of American culture that holds that all men/persons are created equal, and that all are entitled to the life, livery, and the pursuit of happiness. In order for the pro-abortion stance to be justified, they must deny those rights to the child and they must hold that the mother has rights beyond that of any other person (that to simply kill another person for mere convenience). Those are anathemas to the Constitution and to the foundation of American freedoms.

In the end, they are left with having to defend an indefensible position that denies biology and logic, goes against the Constitution and thus the moral and philosophical basis of America, and they must hold that some are created inferior to others while others are created superior to the rest. To base a position like that, justified only by legalism echoes perfectly with the claims of slave traders, Nazis, Chinese communists, and the most hard-line of Islamists. They will, of course, attempt to deny this as well, but facts prove plainly otherwise.


Your argument falls at it's first premise.

An embryo is not a child, it is an embryo.


Is the DNA human, or not? The embryonic stage is very short, between conception and implantation, and abortion does not occur during this stage. The embryo, once implantation takes place, is a HUMAN fetus, by definition a human offspring, ergo a child. That's biology, and undeniable, though you must try to deny it as everything else stems from it.


Does an embryo have consciousness? The ability to react to stimuli and feel pain or comfort?


I guess we'd have to define consciousness, but reaction to stimuli, pain, etc. Yes.

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The point is: the unborn are considered "human" for matters of crimes against others. Abortionists here are trying to say that the unborn child is not human, and claiming that American jurisprudence backs that assertion. It does not.


No, they are not.

They are considered either an embryo or a fetus depending upon their stage of development.


No, he's right. For the purposes of the criminal statutes he is referencing, they are treated as a person.

The law is split on when a person is a person based upon who is killing it and when. The mother is held to be more equal than others and allowed to kill a person for mere convenience when that other person is very young. No one else can do so without facing criminal prosecution.


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At what point?


At what point, what? Respond to stimuli? That's irrelevant in determine whether a human is biologically a human, and if the child is human, then all the rest of my post and the problems that abortionists face follows.


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The point is: the unborn are considered "human" for matters of crimes against others. Abortionists here are trying to say that the unborn child is not human, and claiming that American jurisprudence backs that assertion. It does not.


No, they are not.

They are considered either an embryo or a fetus depending upon their stage of development.

Kill a pregnant woman and see what "jurisprudence" charges you with...

Yeah, a double murder. But when the rule of law gets in the way of the agenda, the agenda prevails...

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Absolutely relavent if one believes that beginging of consciousness is the moment a soul begins. The concept of "quickening" is historically relevant in the in Old English law as to whether or not murder has been committed or not.

Once again, when does consciousness begin?


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Absolutely relavent if one believes that beginging of consciousness is the moment a soul begins. The concept of "quickening" is historically relevant in the in Old English law as to whether or not murder has been committed or not.

Once again, when does consciousness begin?

Or, what is consciousness?

From the Biblical context, begins at conception, as in "being known".

From a scientific basis, not as clear cut.

Sucking one out is killing a human organism. And, it seems flawed to let time become the determiner of when an organism is indeed an organism. Time is such a variable factor, subject to the whims of the observer.

But you need a sliding scale to scale down moral and Biblical precepts. There's no bottom to quicksand...

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From a scientific point consciousness seems pretty clear to me, it is the ability to respond or react to stimuli.

From a biblical point of "being known", is this similar to "I think, therefore I am", or something else?


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Call me conflicted.


Me too.


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It's not about "running someone else's life."

It is about protecting another human's life from murder.


Again, generally not defined as murder in this country, and you attempting to impose your religious concept of when person hood begin upon others.


When does personhood begin according to your take on life?

That is a statement reached either through reason (philosophical) or observation (scientific/physical), not a religious one. A religious/moral decision can then follow. But of course, you know that already. Stop obfusticating and actually engage in a legitimate debate. Are you afraid of losing or something?


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I wasn't obfuscating, I was just waiting for someone to ask the obvious question. Unfortunately, so many Christian are so absolutist in their views on abortion they are unable to even think about that question.

Viability begins around 22 weeks.
A woman can typically feel kicks sometime between weeks 16 and 22.
The Fetal brain can begin to experience sensation during the 4th month, and 91% of all abortions occur within the first 13 weeks. In other words, the vast majority of abortions in this country occur before these milestones. The consensus of those outside the two extremes support the use of abortion into the early second trimester, but not into the third.


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Absolutely relavent if one believes that beginging of consciousness is the moment a soul begins. The concept of "quickening" is historically relevant in the in Old English law as to whether or not murder has been committed or not.

Once again, when does consciousness begin?


The brain splits into two hemispheres and memory begins during month six.


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Call me conflicted.


This is the ultimate American dilemma; life vs. liberty, government control vs. individual rights.


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The problems that the defenders of abortion face start with biology, followed by logic, and the Constitution (supported by philosophy and morality).

First, they must try to deny the biological fact that the child is human, which cannot be done. Logically, then, that child must be a distinct human and therefore a person, which they must also attempt to deny and that denial fails.

If the child is, in fact, a human and therefore a person, then it ought to be protected by the Constitution as would any other person. To deny this goes against the philosophical and moral underpinnings of American culture that holds that all men/persons are created equal, and that all are entitled to the life, livery, and the pursuit of happiness. In order for the pro-abortion stance to be justified, they must deny those rights to the child and they must hold that the mother has rights beyond that of any other person (that to simply kill another person for mere convenience). Those are anathemas to the Constitution and to the foundation of American freedoms.

In the end, they are left with having to defend an indefensible position that denies biology and logic, goes against the Constitution and thus the moral and philosophical basis of America, and they must hold that some are created inferior to others while others are created superior to the rest. To base a position like that, justified only by legalism echoes perfectly with the claims of slave traders, Nazis, Chinese communists, and the most hard-line of Islamists. They will, of course, attempt to deny this as well, but facts prove plainly otherwise.


Your argument falls at it's first premise.

An embryo is not a child, it is an embryo.


Is the DNA human, or not? The embryonic stage is very short, between conception and implantation, and abortion does not occur during this stage. The embryo, once implantation takes place, is a HUMAN fetus, by definition a human offspring, ergo a child. That's biology, and undeniable, though you must try to deny it as everything else stems from it.


Implantation doesn't occur until up to week 4, so are you ok with abortifacients up to week 4?


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The embryo, once implantation takes place, is a HUMAN fetus, by definition a human offspring, ergo a child.
That's biology, and undeniable,..


Embryo implantation takes place between days 7-8 ( i.e; fixation of the embryo—at blastocyst stage—in the woman’s uterus)

From the 8th week onwards is when it is then first considered and referred to as a fetus,
why?...because the embryonic phase is now completed to make way for the fetal phase.


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Planned Parenthood was the brain-child of a white supremacist, Nazi-collaborating, eugenicist. It is doing, albeit it too slowly, what she wanted.

Abortion is still an unjustified homicide (murder), which those like Snyper refuse to admit in the face of biology, physiology, logic, or any other argument. It is also a eugenicist Nazi's dream, which they also refuse to admit.


Bullshit.
You just want to force your standards on everyone else, when it's really none of your business.

You'd make a good ISIS recruit.
They like forcing their beliefs on others just like you.
They just aren't as hypocritical about it as you.

And don't waste your time on a reply because I only see your drivel when someone quotes it, since I've heard all the same bullshit from you already.


You've run from the argument every time, because you cannot refute biology, logical, philosophy, or morality.

Run away again; it's the only play you have.


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There's nothing to run from.

You spout the same mindless BS rhetoric in every post, and pretend what other people do is your business.

I don't care what you think about biology, logic philosophy or morality because you only want to control what other people do.

You are only important to yourself
You don't mean anything to me and you have no right to dictate to anyone.

You're just one more A-hole in a world full of them.

You're not much of a lawyer either if you think abortion is murder, since one is legal and one is not.





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Let's push your argument to its logical conclusion, OK? You are fine with a mother killing her two hear old toddler because the mother is running her own life, right? After all, most of us can hardly run our own lives well let alone someone else's.

Did I get that right?

No you haven't gotten anything right.

You know that's an irrational argument to begin with since it advocates doing something illegal.

You won't get it right until you realize you only get to control what you do, not what anyone else does.


Reverting to legalism? Great; that could be used just as easily to justify and excuse slavery, or the Holocaust, as both of those were legal at the time. Female genital mutilation, the stoning of homosexuals and of women even accused of adultery, or just walking without a male relative as a chaperone, are also legal in parts of the world. Your reliance on legalism to excuse any action justifies those.

As to the "controlling only what one does, and not that of another" is exactly the point - the child is a human and ought to have the same rights as any other. You, and those like you, take those rights away from the child based upon mere convenience. Slavery has nothing on that.


Once again.

If I wanted to hear his mindless repetition I would take him off ignore.
Since you seem to have no mind of your own, I'll just ignore you too.
Neither of you says anything I haven't heard countless times before.


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The point is: the unborn are considered "human" for matters of crimes against others. Abortionists here are trying to say that the unborn child is not human, and claiming that American jurisprudence backs that assertion. It does not.

That's your fantasy.
Of course it's "human"

And it's still none of your business.
American jurisprudence backs that



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.. the reaction to stimuli occurs very early in human development, within the first month which is generally
before a mother knows she is pregnant.


Unborns in the embryo-blastocyst stage well prior to the fetal stage, respond to stimuli?

What is the medical educational source you obtained that from...the same one that wrongly
told you that a blastocyst becomes a fetus immediately at the moment of implantation?


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Originally Posted By 4ager
Planned Parenthood was the brain-child of a white supremacist, Nazi-collaborating, eugenicist. It is doing, albeit it too slowly, what she wanted.

Abortion is still an unjustified homicide (murder), which those like Snyper refuse to admit in the face of biology, physiology, logic, or any other argument. It is also a eugenicist Nazi's dream, which they also refuse to admit.


Bullshit.
You just want to force your standards on everyone else, when it's really none of your business.

You'd make a good ISIS recruit.
They like forcing their beliefs on others just like you.
They just aren't as hypocritical about it as you.

And don't waste your time on a reply because I only see your drivel when someone quotes it, since I've heard all the same bullshit from you already.


You've run from the argument every time, because you cannot refute biology, logical, philosophy, or morality.

Run away again; it's the only play you have.


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There's nothing to run from.

You spout the same mindless BS rhetoric in every post, and pretend what other people do is your business.

I don't care what you think about biology, logic philosophy or morality because you only want to control what other people do.

You are only important to yourself
You don't mean anything to me and you have no right to dictate to anyone.

You're just one more A-hole in a world full of them.

You're not much of a lawyer either if you think abortion is murder, since one is legal and one is not.



So, that's an admission that you still don't have any answer for the biological, logical, moral, or philosophical truths that you continue to deny and cannot overcome. Great; thanks for playing, and have fun with that reliance on legalism that also justifies every other atrocity mentioned.


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Absolutely relavent if one believes that beginging of consciousness is the moment a soul begins. The concept of "quickening" is historically relevant in the in Old English law as to whether or not murder has been committed or not.

Once again, when does consciousness begin?


The brain splits into two hemispheres and memory begins during month six.


I've not once said a word about "soul" or "quickening", as it is irrelevant.


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Originally Posted by 4ager
The problems that the defenders of abortion face start with biology, followed by logic, and the Constitution (supported by philosophy and morality).

First, they must try to deny the biological fact that the child is human, which cannot be done. Logically, then, that child must be a distinct human and therefore a person, which they must also attempt to deny and that denial fails.

If the child is, in fact, a human and therefore a person, then it ought to be protected by the Constitution as would any other person. To deny this goes against the philosophical and moral underpinnings of American culture that holds that all men/persons are created equal, and that all are entitled to the life, livery, and the pursuit of happiness. In order for the pro-abortion stance to be justified, they must deny those rights to the child and they must hold that the mother has rights beyond that of any other person (that to simply kill another person for mere convenience). Those are anathemas to the Constitution and to the foundation of American freedoms.

In the end, they are left with having to defend an indefensible position that denies biology and logic, goes against the Constitution and thus the moral and philosophical basis of America, and they must hold that some are created inferior to others while others are created superior to the rest. To base a position like that, justified only by legalism echoes perfectly with the claims of slave traders, Nazis, Chinese communists, and the most hard-line of Islamists. They will, of course, attempt to deny this as well, but facts prove plainly otherwise.


Your argument falls at it's first premise.

An embryo is not a child, it is an embryo.


Is the DNA human, or not? The embryonic stage is very short, between conception and implantation, and abortion does not occur during this stage. The embryo, once implantation takes place, is a HUMAN fetus, by definition a human offspring, ergo a child. That's biology, and undeniable, though you must try to deny it as everything else stems from it.


Implantation doesn't occur until up to week 4, so are you ok with abortifacients up to week 4?


If the embryo is not implanted, it cannot be viable. Not being "okay" with that process would also call into question the millions/billions of fertilized eggs (embryos) in frozen stasis in reproductive facilities.

I have never, not once, wavered from the implantation stance.

Beyond implantation, there is the traditional rule of self-defense (not mere convenience), and that covers the rare exceptions within pregnancies that abortionists reach for when cornered.

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Originally Posted by achadwick
Let's push your argument to its logical conclusion, OK? You are fine with a mother killing her two hear old toddler because the mother is running her own life, right? After all, most of us can hardly run our own lives well let alone someone else's.

Did I get that right?

No you haven't gotten anything right.

You know that's an irrational argument to begin with since it advocates doing something illegal.

You won't get it right until you realize you only get to control what you do, not what anyone else does.


Reverting to legalism? Great; that could be used just as easily to justify and excuse slavery, or the Holocaust, as both of those were legal at the time. Female genital mutilation, the stoning of homosexuals and of women even accused of adultery, or just walking without a male relative as a chaperone, are also legal in parts of the world. Your reliance on legalism to excuse any action justifies those.

As to the "controlling only what one does, and not that of another" is exactly the point - the child is a human and ought to have the same rights as any other. You, and those like you, take those rights away from the child based upon mere convenience. Slavery has nothing on that.


Once again.

If I wanted to hear his mindless repetition I would take him off ignore.
Since you seem to have no mind of your own, I'll just ignore you too.
Neither of you says anything I haven't heard countless times before.


Just admit you're a coward (which you are), and have no argument other than a reliance on legalism (which you don't) that also justifies every atrocity mentioned. The truth - a first for you - shall set you free.


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The point is: the unborn are considered "human" for matters of crimes against others. Abortionists here are trying to say that the unborn child is not human, and claiming that American jurisprudence backs that assertion. It does not.

That's your fantasy.
Of course it's "human"

And it's still none of your business.
American jurisprudence backs that



Ah, legalism.... so glad to know that you finally admit that the child is human. The rest of the logical progression follows from there.

Legalism justified slavery, the Holocaust, the Chinese "Great Leap Forward", and now justifies Sharia law (among others); good to know where you stand on those now, too.


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I absolutely understand.I don't believe in abortion myself, but more than not believing in abortion I believe in minding my own life.

Lots of Christians like to play god. They apparently lack faith that God will be the judge.


So, you'd rather other play God instead? The only people playing God are those killing children without just cause. Once you figure that out, you'll be ahead of the game.


I'd rather let people choose their own fate. I don't have to sleep with knowing that I killed a fetus nor knowing that I brought a baby with known life threatening problems into the world. .....nor anywhere in between. Site your verses that tell you to be the one who judoes when your neighbor should be unable to make choices, or the one that says you should judge when others make choices.

It's a fundamentalist thing, much like Muslims, they feel the world must conform to their beliefs or suffer.


Great. So, when does the child get to determine their own fate? It's not a fundamentalist thing; it's a logical and consistent thing. The parents made a host of choices that led to the pregnancy. Any one of those choices prior could have prevented it. Once it happens, it's a human life. There is no legal, logical, or rational reason to kill another human without just cause - and inconvenience isn't a just cause.


You got defensive and forgot to answer my question.

Furthermore, don't confuse my stance ad defending abortion, I don't defend it. What I'm defending is the right for an American to make choices regarding their own fate. If we force our decisions upon others, or take the rights to make difficult choices from others because we don't feel it's right we continue to stay divided as a nation.

I don't like a lot of people's choices, but I don't have to. ....they're not my choices to live with.


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I absolutely understand.I don't believe in abortion myself, but more than not believing in abortion I believe in minding my own life.

Lots of Christians like to play god. They apparently lack faith that God will be the judge.


So, you'd rather other play God instead? The only people playing God are those killing children without just cause. Once you figure that out, you'll be ahead of the game.


I'd rather let people choose their own fate. I don't have to sleep with knowing that I killed a fetus nor knowing that I brought a baby with known life threatening problems into the world. .....nor anywhere in between. Site your verses that tell you to be the one who judoes when your neighbor should be unable to make choices, or the one that says you should judge when others make choices.

It's a fundamentalist thing, much like Muslims, they feel the world must conform to their beliefs or suffer.


Great. So, when does the child get to determine their own fate? It's not a fundamentalist thing; it's a logical and consistent thing. The parents made a host of choices that led to the pregnancy. Any one of those choices prior could have prevented it. Once it happens, it's a human life. There is no legal, logical, or rational reason to kill another human without just cause - and inconvenience isn't a just cause.


You got defensive and forgot to answer my question.

Furthermore, don't confuse my stance ad defending abortion, I don't defend it. What I'm defending is the right for an American to make choices regarding their own fate. If we force our decisions upon others, or take the rights to make difficult choices from others because we don't feel it's right we continue to stay divided as a nation.

I don't like a lot of people's choices, but I don't have to. ....they're not my choices to live with.


What question was overlooked? The request to "cite verses"? Please show me where I've made a religious argument in opposition to abortion, and your request becomes relevant. You cannot, because I have not.

Also, once you admit that the child is a person, and therefore ought to have the same rights, the rest of your position becomes extremely difficult to defend as it is self-conflicting.


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I'd rather let people choose their own fate. I don't have to sleep with knowing that I killed a fetus nor knowing that I brought a baby with known life threatening problems into the world. .....nor anywhere in between. Site your verses that tell you to be the one who judoes when your neighbor should be unable to make choices, or the one that says you should judge when others make choices.

It's a fundamentalist thing, much like Muslims, they feel the world must conform to their beliefs or suffer. [/quote]

Great. So, when does the child get to determine their own fate? It's not a fundamentalist thing; it's a logical and consistent thing. The parents made a host of choices that led to the pregnancy. Any one of those choices prior could have prevented it. Once it happens, it's a human life. There is no legal, logical, or rational reason to kill another human without just cause - and inconvenience isn't a just cause. [/quote]

You got defensive and forgot to answer my question.

Furthermore, don't confuse my stance ad defending abortion, I don't defend it. What I'm defending is the right for an American to make choices regarding their own fate. If we force our decisions upon others, or take the rights to make difficult choices from others because we don't feel it's right we continue to stay divided as a nation.

I don't like a lot of people's choices, but I don't have to. ....they're not my choices to live with. [/quote]

What question was overlooked? The request to "cite verses"? Please show me where I've made a religious argument in opposition to abortion, and your request becomes relevant. You cannot, because I have not.

Also, once you admit that the child is a person, and therefore ought to have the same rights, the rest of your position becomes extremely difficult to defend as it is self-conflicting. [/quote]

Fundamentalists, be it christian or Muslim will always defend their interpretation of religion.

I guess I'm a fundamentalist American, I believe that people should be allowed to make and live with their choices. I don't believe that I nor you can run our lives so well that we should be allowed to control another from personal success nor harm.

No verses sited......still.


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I'm not making a religious argument, as I am basing the argument on fundamentalist American ideals and not on religion. I've not once based my opposition to abortion on any faith. You're trying to paint it that way, and it's completely false. Since there is no religious basis to my argument, there is no need to cite any verses.

As to being fundamentally American; yep, that's my argument. I believe that all people within the United States (which includes the children in question) are protected are entitled to the same protections under the Constitution, the same rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that none are more or less equal than others.

Your position is directly counter to that.


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So, is anything that does not directly affect a person ok as its "not their business" ?


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I'm not making a religious argument, as I am basing the argument on fundamentalist American ideals and not on religion. I've not once based my opposition to abortion on any faith. You're trying to paint it that way, and it's completely false. Since there is no religious basis to my argument, there is no need to cite any verses.

As to being fundamentally American; yep, that's my argument. I believe that all people within the United States (which includes the children in question) are protected are entitled to the same protections under the Constitution, the same rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that none are more or less equal than others.

Your position is directly counter to that.


You are correct. I don't believe that anyone without any documentation showing they are American deserve any of the constitutional rights.

The problem with allowing you to control another person's decision on abortion is that opens the door for them to control your decisions. We've seen it with Obama's administration, no more large pop's because they're bad for you....etc.

Given the right lawyers and courts we could lose alcohol, tobacco and firearms. Think guns protection by the 2a saves us? If the argument that lead, noise, flash.....etc are all dangerous to health and you're suddenly facing the same fight as the libs are on abortion.

I'll just stick to running my life and let people enjoy and suffer their decisions.


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I'm not making a religious argument, as I am basing the argument on fundamentalist American ideals and not on religion. I've not once based my opposition to abortion on any faith. You're trying to paint it that way, and it's completely false. Since there is no religious basis to my argument, there is no need to cite any verses.

As to being fundamentally American; yep, that's my argument. I believe that all people within the United States (which includes the children in question) are protected are entitled to the same protections under the Constitution, the same rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that none are more or less equal than others.

Your position is directly counter to that.


You are correct. I don't believe that anyone without any documentation showing they are American deserve any of the constitutional rights.

The problem with allowing you to control another person's decision on abortion is that opens the door for them to control your decisions. We've seen it with Obama's administration, no more large pop's because they're bad for you....etc.

Given the right lawyers and courts we could lose alcohol, tobacco and firearms. Think guns protection by the 2a saves us? If the argument that lead, noise, flash.....etc are all dangerous to health and you're suddenly facing the same fight as the libs are on abortion.

I'll just stick to running my life and let people enjoy and suffer their decisions.


Tony,

I respect you, and your opinions. Could you, perhaps, flesh out how you equate having a child within the US protected under the Constitution from being put to death out of mere convenience is connected to the repeal of the 2A? I'm just not following that line of thinking.

Thanks.


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Describe "having a child". I see it as being pregnant.


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"Having a child protected...", not "having a child".

Somehow you are drawing a line between keeping kids from being killed for mere convenience to a loss of enumerated rights. How you get from one to the other is unclear.

Try again, please. No insult intended.

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Not-with-standing the moral aspects of abortion, if we were to go back to the OPs initial supposition.....

Do BLM???

It is difficult for me to jump on the bandwagon and offer much help. I do think that there are good people that are trying, however the rest is very vocal, loud, obnoxious, feel entitled, demanding and are about 99.9% Democrat wanting to do little but throw my money at 'something' claiming that it will fix 'it', whatever 'it' is....

Sorry!

Given www.heyjackass.com and the FACT that more black babies are aborted in NYC than are born.....

It strikes me that BL-don't-M to BLACKS, or the rest of the Democrat populous for that matter, and until they do, as disgusting as it is, you can call me ambivalent....

I had a family member that suggested I should have attended weddings 4 and 5.......... Sorry, but if YOU can't take it seriously I'm not going to either....

IMHO.

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Originally Posted by muffin

It strikes me that BL-don't-M to BLACKS, or the rest of the Democrat populous for that matter, and until they do, as disgusting as it is, you can call me abivalent....



On that, I agree, save two exceptions (linked) a they matter dead when they can be used a political pawns, and when (alive or dead) they can be used by the family to win a sick version of the "ghetto lotto" by suing the city and/or white folks. Other than that, no, clearly BL-don't-M to blacks.


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So, is anything that does not directly affect a person ok as its "not their business" ?

That covers most things quite well.
I realize you're just trying to use an extreme generalization though.

It especially applies to "moral" issues since "morals" are a matter of opinion.

Religion is the same thing. If you like yours, that's fine.
You just can't force it on anyone else.


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Abortion is homicide, people kill each other for all kinds of reasons and justify it in just as many ways, human life has always been expendable... cracks me up when folks try to deny that truth.

Our umbrella of protection from others is small in reality, a few care if we live or die, if your mama don't want you to live chances are you won't.

Why be an apologist for homicide/abortion... be proud, carry a sign, kill another.

My give a chit for folks that support homicide and then caterwaul how they have rights and need personal protection to live is nonexistent, protect yourself without my support or tax dollars... good luck.

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I'm not making a religious argument, as I am basing the argument on fundamentalist American ideals and not on religion. I've not once based my opposition to abortion on any faith. You're trying to paint it that way, and it's completely false. Since there is no religious basis to my argument, there is no need to cite any verses.

As to being fundamentally American; yep, that's my argument.

You mean fundamentally bullshit.

The true American way would be freedom of choice and independence, while you want to play dictator and tell others how to live.

You're a hypocrite and a control freak as well as being a professional bullshitter.


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Just a reminder of what we (Nationally) are dealing with:

https://youtu.be/RBqjZ0KZCa0

"Somebody needs to be held accountable"....... because Lord knows pumping out 15 kids with no way to support them shouldn't be her responsibility 😡.


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I'm not making a religious argument, as I am basing the argument on fundamentalist American ideals and not on religion. I've not once based my opposition to abortion on any faith. You're trying to paint it that way, and it's completely false. Since there is no religious basis to my argument, there is no need to cite any verses.

As to being fundamentally American; yep, that's my argument.

You mean fundamentally bullshit.

The true American way would be freedom of choice and independence, while you want to play dictator and tell others how to live.

Your a hypocrite and a control freak as well as being a professional bullshitter.


Seems you've proven yourself both a liar (saying you have me in ignore and only read what is quoted) as well as a coward. Congratulations; that's a pair to be proud of.

You still have no argument other than legalism, and that one fails miserably.

Your screeching like a bitch only adds to the satisfaction of knowing you've been bested and have nothing left to bring to the table.

But, carry on...your melting snowflake and shrill responses are enjoyable.


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Originally Posted by krp
Abortion is homicide, people kill each other for all kinds of reasons and justify it in just as many ways, human life has always been expendable... cracks me up when folks try to deny that truth.

Our umbrella of protection from others is small in reality, a few care if we live or die, if your mama don't want you to live chances are you won't.

Why be an apologist for homicide/abortion... be proud, carry a sign, kill another.

My give a chit for folks that support homicide and then caterwaul how they have rights and need personal protection to live is nonexistent, protect yourself without my support or tax dollars... good luck.

Kent



Exactly. There is justifiable homicide, and those parameters are well defined, and there is unjustified homicide.


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So, is anything that does not directly affect a person ok as its "not their business" ?

That covers most things quite well.
I realize you're just trying to use an extreme generalization though.

It especially applies to "moral" issues since "morals" are a matter of opinion.

Religion is the same thing. If you like yours, that's fine.
You just can't force it on anyone else.


Yet, you are advocating the lethal force of one's judgment/decisions upon another, and basing it on....legality?

Glad to know you would sit idly by whilst slavery, or a Holocaust, or the Chinese "Great Leap Forward" happened, and that you are content sitting idly by while slavery in the ME, female genital mutilation happens in many areas, women are kept as chattel goods across the Muslim world, and of course while child and spousal abuse happens in your neighborhood. Those things are "none of your business" as they don't impact you directly, and you certainly cannot claim to be one to impose your morals (since you have none) upon anyone else.

Thanks for playing; you lose.

Now, whine like a bitch, then run off and go cry again. It's the only play you have.


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Homicide and it''s justification should be individually accessed, this includes abortion... or we should just go pick up dead bodies from roads, homes, bombings, shootings, wars.. and throw them in a mass grave of 'cullings' and not question the why.

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Originally Posted by krp
Homicide and it''s justification should be individually accessed, this includes abortion... or we should just go pick up dead bodies from roads, homes, bombings, shootings, wars.. and throw them in a mass grave of 'cullings' and not question the why.

Kent


Exactly. Re: abortion - self-defense laws are well-defined and solid. If they fit those parameters, so be it. Mere convenience does not fit.


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This is exactly why we need more than two parties. I believe 80% of what most conservatives do, yet the remaining 20% make me view them as fundamentalist religious nut cases just like the muzzies....and they view me as a murderous hate filled noncaring sob.

The truth is, I just want people to make their own choices and live with them and stop being dependant upon the government to micromanage our lives.


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This is exactly why we need more than two parties. I believe 80% of what most conservatives do, yet the remaining 20% make me view them as fundamentalist religious nut cases just like the muzzies....and they view me as a murderous hate filled noncaring sob.

The truth is, I just want people to make their own choices and live with them and stop being dependant upon the government to micromanage our lives.


I agree with that wholeheartedly, and the fact that you are implying that I am a "fundamentalist religious nutcase" makes me laugh. That is rather hysterically funny.


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From a scientific point consciousness seems pretty clear to me, it is the ability to respond or react to stimuli.

From a biblical point of "being known", is this similar to "I think, therefore I am", or something else?

One can choose to travel the road of speculation or the road of revelation.

It takes some effort to untangle revelation into the morass of speculation.

So often one's world view prevails, backed only by one's personal bias. We see that so prevelant in today's politics and news cycles. After a while Truth gets trampled into the muck of relativism, where good is called evil and evil is called good.

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Does an embryo have consciousness? <b>The ability to react to stimuli</b> and feel pain or comfort?


This is EXTREMELY useful information.

I cannot tell you how many times I have been frustrated by sales people who are so involved with their Obama phones that I was unable to get their attention.

I am sure that my attorney will be thrilled to have the benefit of your legal reasoning AFTER I shoot all the non-sentient millennials that are in range.

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The problems that the defenders of abortion face start with biology, followed by logic, and the Constitution (supported by philosophy and morality).

First, they must try to deny the biological fact that the child is human, which cannot be done. Logically, then, that child must be a distinct human and therefore a person, which they must also attempt to deny and that denial fails.

If the child is, in fact, a human and therefore a person, then it ought to be protected by the Constitution as would any other person. To deny this goes against the philosophical and moral underpinnings of American culture that holds that all men/persons are created equal, and that all are entitled to the life, livery, and the pursuit of happiness. In order for the pro-abortion stance to be justified, they must deny those rights to the child and they must hold that the mother has rights beyond that of any other person (that to simply kill another person for mere convenience). Those are anathemas to the Constitution and to the foundation of American freedoms.

In the end, they are left with having to defend an indefensible position that denies biology and logic, goes against the Constitution and thus the moral and philosophical basis of America, and they must hold that some are created inferior to others while others are created superior to the rest. To base a position like that, justified only by legalism echoes perfectly with the claims of slave traders, Nazis, Chinese communists, and the most hard-line of Islamists. They will, of course, attempt to deny this as well, but facts prove plainly otherwise.


Your argument falls at it's first premise.

An embryo is not a child, it is an embryo.


Is the DNA human, or not? The embryonic stage is very short, between conception and implantation, and abortion does not occur during this stage. The embryo, once implantation takes place, is a HUMAN fetus, by definition a human offspring, ergo a child. That's biology, and undeniable, though you must try to deny it as everything else stems from it.


Implantation doesn't occur until up to week 4, so are you ok with abortifacients up to week 4?


If the embryo is not implanted, it cannot be viable. Not being "okay" with that process would also call into question the millions/billions of fertilized eggs (embryos) in frozen stasis in reproductive facilities.

I have never, not once, wavered from the implantation stance.

Beyond implantation, there is the traditional rule of self-defense (not mere convenience), and that covers the rare exceptions within pregnancies that abortionists reach for when cornered.


That's because your a decent lawyer and have studied the opposition position enough to understand how your argument would collapse if you wavered from it.


You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.

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Does an embryo have consciousness? <b>The ability to react to stimuli</b> and feel pain or comfort?


This is EXTREMELY useful information.

I cannot tell you how many times I have been frustrated by sales people who are so involved with their Obama phones that I was unable to get their attention.

I am sure that my attorney will be thrilled to have the benefit of your legal reasoning AFTER I shoot all the non-sentient millennials that are in range.

***Humor***


Around here you don't have to worry about shooting them. They have this habit of putting in their earphone and playing with their phones while crossing the light rail tracks.


You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.

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From a scientific point consciousness seems pretty clear to me, it is the ability to respond or react to stimuli.

From a biblical point of "being known", is this similar to "I think, therefore I am", or something else?

Plants respond and react to stimuli.
Single cell organisms do too.
What the bible says doesn't matter any more that what the koran says.


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Samson killed a thousand with the jawbone of an ass...

Kent

Too bad we don't have that on tape.

Would be interesting to watch.

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Samson killed a thousand with the jawbone of an ass...

Kent

Too bad we don't have that on tape.

Would be interesting to watch.

DF


Right? Almost nothing important that has EVER happened has been "on tape". I'm beginning to doubt that anything important has ever happened.


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Samson killed a thousand with the jawbone of an ass...

Kent

Too bad we don't have that on tape.

Would be interesting to watch.

DF


Right? Almost nothing important that has EVER happened has been "on tape". I'm beginning to doubt that anything important has ever happened.

That could be analogous to an all too common concept of religion.

If I can't figure it out, if I can't explain it, it's questionable at best... cry

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Samson killed a thousand with the jawbone of an ass...

Kent


Damn, Sampson had snyper's jawbone?


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Samson killed a thousand with the jawbone of an ass...

Kent

Too bad we don't have that on tape.

Would be interesting to watch.

DF


Right? Almost nothing important that has EVER happened has been "on tape". I'm beginning to doubt that anything important has ever happened.

That could be analogous to an all too common concept of religion.

If I can't figure it out, if I can't explain it, it's questionable at best... cry

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Maybe, but you can't prove it.


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Originally Posted by ltppowell
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Samson killed a thousand with the jawbone of an ass...

Kent

Too bad we don't have that on tape.

Would be interesting to watch.

DF


Right? Almost nothing important that has EVER happened has been "on tape". I'm beginning to doubt that anything important has ever happened.

That could be analogous to an all too common concept of religion.

If I can't figure it out, if I can't explain it, it's questionable at best... cry

DF


Maybe, but you can't prove it.

I can't prove the supernatural...

If I could, maybe it wouldn't be supernatural...

The natural man can't comprehend such, it's all foolishness to him.

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