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Re: Doing the courageous thing can hurt

By: clo in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Tue, 08 Nov 11 1:55 AM | 31 view(s)
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Cactus Flower,

I agree, this will go to The Supreme's.

IMO, 'viability' is when the fetus can live outside the mother, on it's own.

Do you know what I find insulting?
Many of these folks don't want to help poor children once they are BORN.
They fight like hell for the embryo, but after birth they are on their own.
Now, they even want to make 'birth control' illegal.

I see this as a control issue.




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Re: Doing the courageous thing can hurt
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Tue, 08 Nov 11 1:31 AM 		Msg. 06206 of 54959

Hi clo,

But you make viability the measure, and that is as random as birth or conception. Or suffering. Or a complex set of carved out compromises. Or whatever.

At the end of the day, I choose some compromise between conception and birth as the proper division. Or between the duties to the unborn child and the rights of the mother. But I cannot argue the point from principle as there is none that is measurable and therefore none that is other than arbitrary or personal. We can assign these kinds of values as we choose.

Rule of the majority resolves some of these kinds of issues, even if we don't like the outcome. Others are governed by the protections in the constitution: hence your Roe and Wade. Looks to me like this ends up going along the latter path.


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