Stanky posted:Dr. John posted:Stanky posted:Dr. John posted:Stanky posted:Dr. John posted:Stanky posted:Naio posted:So what's wrong with the way the law is now? Then, ask yourself why people are trying so hard to overturn it?
What's so wrong now is the fact that brain wave activity begins in the child at 5-6 weeks and the heart starts beating about 5 weeks. Brown v Education Board replaced 'separate but equal' of Plessey v Ferguson because of new facts that were introduced to the Supreme Court. I believe states are taking a new crack at the old ruling using biological facts.
If brain wave activity is the chief indicator of life, can we now turn off some ventilators on comatose adults? Some of them do wake up against all odds, but you seem to be saying it's okay to kill them.
I'm glad you now agree that life begins at conception.
There's no "now" to it. You seem to want to pick arguments where there are none. I've never said it didn't. What I'm saying is that using false and dubious arguments don't help anyone's case.
The difference between an 8 month old fetus and an 8 month old baby is 9 months. Not difficult to understand is it?
According to some states, after the second trimester that fetus is a person as allowed by Roe v Wade. At that point the only difference is which side of the womb the baby is on. Deciding when life occurs is a rather delicate issue, we all were once zygotes so to some, life starts there.
I believe it was you who started the deflection with the comatose adult story. You get what you give.
YOU are the one who first mentioned brain wave activity as indicative of life. The point is, without using, or even when using, the Bible, no one can say when life begins. That's unless you or others want to say you know as much as God.
Pardon me, the whole point of the abortion issue is when is a person a human and what standard do we use to determine the starting point. At some point between the zygote stage and the rotting flesh stage we are human beings and politicians are given the job of filling in for God and determining the start and end of it all. The problem is do we use an arbitrary date pulled out of a politician's rectum or a biological stage.
That depends on if Republicans intend to govern by religion or science, doesn't it?