Re: Abortion

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray Fischer) wrote:

>BlackWater  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>A fertilized cell is NOT a "person" - but a 8.9 month
>>fetus has everything required to be so except a seperate
>>mailing address.
>
>And what are the requirements for "person"?

   A variety of abilities and 'potentials' too
   numerous (and sometimes too vague) to list.
   It's kinda one of those "you know it when
   you see it" things. Whip out an 8.9 month
   fetus and you see a 'person', a human baby.
   Whip out an embryo and you DON'T see it.
   The transition, the shift in the balance of
   features and characteristics from mere 'stuff'
   to 'person', happens somewhere during the
   gestation. Try to apply black and white
   thinking to a continous, analog process and
   you'll never get it right.  

>> Clearly "personhood" - moral and 
>>hopefully legal - is something that *develops* as the
>>pregnancy advances. 
>
>Says who?

   Says ME. I count. I also plan to spread the word,
   so soon it will be MORE than just me. There are
   no 'solutions' to the abortion issue at either
   extreme of the gestation process ... the answer
   is in the middle somewhere. 

>>There's no clear line, but it seems that the MIDDLE
>
>"Seems"?  "No clear line"?
>
>You really haven't a clue, do you?

   I seem to be the only one with a 'clue' around here.
   I'd suggest you accept my proposed compromise. It's
   rational, sensible, functional and something all
   'sides' of this idiotic debate might grudgingly
   accept. 

   But then I guess it's more FUN to be at the throats
   of the 'opposition' ... gives you a sense of higher
   purpose, moral superiority and such .....