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An embryo or fetus is not a true parasite. It may act in a parasitic manner as you have stated but that doesn't change the fact that it is not a parasite. And it is not something you "acquire" or something that you "pick up" in third world travels. It is something your body creates which makes it very different from genuine parasites. There is no reason or logic behind comparing a human to malaria or a tapeworm. It's a hysterical analogy.Simple. Before birth the survival mode of a human is parasitic; it takes what it wants from the host, regardless of any inclinations of the host. After birth, a human isn't parasitic. Everything it receives in order to survive can be a voluntary gift. The Law may require such gifts, due to ignoring Scientific Fact and classifying the human as a person worthy of such gifts --but keep in mind that other Law allows the newborn to be put up for adoption, should the parents not want to provide those gifts. There is no equivalent to adoption for an unborn parasitic human, so any Law that prohibits abortion is basically forcing someone to be a host to a parasite. Shall we write a Law to force you to host malaria, should you happen to contract that parasite? What makes one parasite more important than another? Prejudice? We just spent most of the last century fighting prejudice, especially in the Law!
Okay, it disagrees with you and so you don't like it.
Nothing new.
The wire hanger argument bears no merit as those are caused always and only by PC women, so the problem lays with them.
The PL camp? I wouldn't know, I'm not PL.
I wouldn't be taking a hanger to anyone's body, so I'm not the one who will be taking blame for the wire hangers.
If a woman injures of kills herself because she used a wire hanger to abort her own child when there was no medical reason to do so nor legal excuse to receive an abortion legally, she got what she knowingly gave herself.
...and yeah, I come from the breed of person who was like my driver's ed teacher in high school: Having become tired of oh-poor-me stories from teenagers trying, but failing, to kill themselves on his shift as an emt, he maid it a point to tell every student in his class that if their going to try to slit their wrists to remember "it's down the road, not across the street". If your going to kill yourself, do it right, succeed and die so I don't have to hear your crap.
I'm just so sick of the hype I don't care about being perceived as compassionate or not, I need to let go my dry, morbid sense of hummer just so my head doesn't explode.
OH, YES, IT IS. Abortion is not "fertilization control" because it doesn't affect the number of them that occur; it is not "conception control" because it doesn't affect the number of them that occur; --and it is not "pregnancy control" because it doesn't affect the number of them that occur. But it can indeed control the number of births that occur!talloulou said:As far as your concern over the population I can only tell you that we have a variety of methods of "birth control" but abortion isn't one of them.
We are aware of your irrational prejudice in this matter. And you continue to fail to answer the question, "Why must certain potentials be fulfilled, and not others?"talloulou said:In my opinion ALL HUMANS that are without major defect should be afforded the right to life as soon as their presence is known. The same "pass" that is given to the newborn should be given to the unborn ...
That's because there are no other large groups of humans which are so easily proved, in Scientific Fact, to be no more than mere animals. Meanwhile:talloulou said:... especially since modern technology has given us 3D and even 4D pictures of the life in the womb we now know far too much to contine pretending we aren't taking human lives with each and every abortion. We don't kill the homeless to solve population problems and there is no other group of humans I can imagine anyone advocating we do away with in order to solve the population problem.
This is not a large group, although they are equally human and equally merely animal. Killing them all would hardly make a dent in the population problem. And you are still arguing that you want certain potentials to be fulfilled, without saying why it is important or even necessary.talloulou said:It is quite reasonable to argue that a being on life support who will never be capable of much of a life and has no brain waves should be terminated.
FALSE. Preventing a Malthusian Catastrophe, which would kill up to 99% of the population, including those you are wanting to protect, is indeed a good reason. You would sacrifice 99% of all actual persons, just because you want 50% more potential persons to become actualized each year? (I just saw a statistic that in 1995, 35% of pregnancies were aborted worldwide. If I round that down to 1/3, then 2/3 of pregnancies resulted in births, and that 1/3 is 50% of the 2/3.)talloulou said:There is no good reason not to afford the unborn that we can see and document quite adequately now the same protections as the newborn.
FALSE. It is Accepted Reality with respect to every sort of ordinary parasite on the planet. And it is Scientific Fact that an unborn human exists parasitically. Therefore, to make an exception in this matter, prejudicially favoring unborn humans, actual animals they are, is to violate Accepted Reality, Scientific Fact, and the dignity of actual persons, all for the sake of potentials that you have yet to explain why they must be fulfilled!talloulou said:And as far as the my body my choice goes that's just a bunch of rot.
So? You can help create fly lives by putting your organic garbage outside in unsealed containers. That doesn't mean either the new human lives or the new fly lives deserve to stay alive. Go ahead! Explain to us why those new human lives deserve to stay alive --and especially explain to us why that argument doesn't apply to those exactly-equally-animal new fly lives.talloulou said:Unless a woman was raped the new human life she carries is a life she herself helped create.
Are you saying that "her body" deserves more control over her life than her mind? Shall we use that as an excuse to lobotomize all female pro-lifers, and use them as breeders? In spite of all the precedents that have been set to help grant minds power over Mindless Natural Biology? Don't be so utterly ridiculous, please!talloulou said:The government isn't responsible for doing that to her and can't be blamed for taking her resources against her will when in fact her body is using it's resources to nourish the new human that her body helped created.
TRUE. Just as it is exactly-as-true that an animal is parasitically taking things from her.talloulou said:There is "NO ONE" taking anything from her at all.
UNNECESSARY. The claim of being parasitized by an animal is Scientifically Valid, and is sufficient for removal of that animal, in every single case, including human animals (since abortion is legal).talloulou said:And if she were to claim {{snipped}}
The correct word is "resources", not "parts". A pregnant woman keeps all her parts, but loses vitamins, minerals, fuel, water, oxygen, and so on --and has waste products dumped into her bloodstream in exchange for them. Ugh.talloulou said:Women claim that it isn't fair that they loose their body parts!
FALSE. Parasitism compares rather closely.talloulou said:Well there is nothing else that compares with pregnancy really ...
And I do not make that particular comparison, as explained above.talloulou said:... and women are the ones who get pregnant so there is nothing to be done about "fair." But to compare it to someone stealing your kidney or any other ridiculous analogy is absurd.
TRUE. But this does not define how she must deal with that responsibility. Especially since Mindless Natural Biology may have chosen it for her, against her will.talloulou said:The life she carries in her womb is her responsibility since she is the only one who can care for it until a later date.
Touche! Point won on a semantics level. In any event you know what I mean. There are ways "to keep from getting pregnant" giving women a great deal of control over "getting pregnant" abortion is not one of them. It merely terminates a pregnancy that is already in place which is quite different from preventing pregnancy from occuring in the first place.OH, YES, IT IS. Abortion is not "fertilization control" because it doesn't affect the number of them that occur; it is not "conception control" because it doesn't affect the number of them that occur; --and it is not "pregnancy control" because it doesn't affect the number of them that occur. But it can indeed control the number of births that occur!
As previously said there is no reason to expect that the potential of a human who is 2 days old need be fulfilled while the unborn's is not. I feel both should have the opportunity to live their lives without being killed by a fellow human. My reasoning is that I believe all humans were created equally and should be treated as such regardless of age or geographic location.We are aware of your irrational prejudice in this matter. And you continue to fail to answer the question, "Why must certain potentials be fulfilled, and not others?"
Again we are all animals. Humans possibly the smartest though there is more than one biologists who argue we have good reason to believe whales are smarter. I know that you will undoubtedly compare the unborn to a fly or some such insect but that doesn't change the fact that they are not bugs they are homosapiens like you or I and as with any human child we can expect that they will grow into their intellectual capabilities. There is no reason to expect a mother to treat her developing child in the same manner she would treat flys on her garbage. If we can not hold mothers accountable for the well being of their offspring then we simply can't hold anyone accountable or responsible for anything really. Caring for ones young is what seperates us from insects that lay eggs or any other animal that leaves its young to fend for themselves. By nature we are created to care and nurture our young. To deny that responsibility is to deny our very nature.That's because there are no other large groups of humans which are so easily proved, in Scientific Fact, to be no more than mere animals. Meanwhile:
Since person means nothing to me except that the government deems a human worthy of the title I have no way of answering your question. I generally believe we should respect all human life however if we are in need of ridding the planet of people I can think of better criteria for judging value. Age and geographical location are not the best or most beneficial criteria. If you get right down to it when thinking in terms of benefiting the human race perhaps we'd be better off taking out the poor, taking out people who have reached a certain age but have an unacceptably low IQ, taking out people with deformities, taking out people with HIV, ect. I wouldn't condone any of that but if I were to follow your logic there are humans I would go after way before I got to the very youngest and most unrealized of us all.FALSE. Preventing a Malthusian Catastrophe, which would kill up to 99% of the population, including those you are wanting to protect, is indeed a good reason. You would sacrifice 99% of all actual persons, just because you want 50% more potential persons to become actualized each year? (I just saw a statistic that in 1995, 35% of pregnancies were aborted worldwide. If I round that down to 1/3, then 2/3 of pregnancies resulted in births, and that 1/3 is 50% of the 2/3.)
Again there is no right to have anyone do things to your body. That is a "false" notion. By not allowing abortion the government is simply not allowing anyone to interfere in something that happened through no fault of the government. No one has a "right" to a sex change. No one has a "right" to drugs that haven't been approved by the FDA. There are people dying right at this very moment despite the fact that there are drugs available at this very moment that could help because the government has not yet approved the use of those drugs. Certainly if pregnancy is a parasitic condition that still does not give women the right to demand a certain type of treatment for that condition! All kinds of people are told no to all kinds of stuff that would only affect their body. No one is coming in and taking anything from the pregnant woman. The government would not be stealing her resources. The government would just not be approving abortion as an acceptable treatment to her condition much as they don't approve a variety of other treatments despite numerous protests and out crying from other suffering folk.FALSE. It is Accepted Reality with respect to every sort of ordinary parasite on the planet. And it is Scientific Fact that an unborn human exists parasitically. Therefore, to make an exception in this matter, prejudicially favoring unborn humans, actual animals they are, is to violate Accepted Reality, Scientific Fact, and the dignity of actual persons, all for the sake of potentials that you have yet to explain why they must be fulfilled!
The unborn are homosapiens. Humans. They are not bugs so there is no reason to treat them as such.So? You can help create fly lives by putting your organic garbage outside in unsealed containers. That doesn't mean either the new human lives or the new fly lives deserve to stay alive. Go ahead! Explain to us why those new human lives deserve to stay alive --and especially explain to us why that argument doesn't apply to those exactly-equally-animal new fly lives.
Are you saying that "her body" deserves more control over her life than her mind? Shall we use that as an excuse to lobotomize all female pro-lifers, and use them as breeders?
WE DO, INDEED, every time a "women and children first!" emergency occurs. And we as a culture have already decided that unborn human lives are not as valuable as born human lives; that's one reason why abortion is legal. AND it is now time for you to answer Question #6, in Msg #296. (You may also find the text that follows it relevant to that Question.)talloulou said:{{The unborn}} are human lives. We don't go around deciding which humans are valuable
Since we already do make decisions regarding values assigned to human lives, as evidenced in #296 (a related example, not mentioned there, is the fact that common human poachers are considered less valuable than rare elephants, tigers, rhinos, etc, so those humans are commonly executed) -- start considering!talloulou said:and which ones aren't only to kill the non-valuables for the sake of population woes. When we do maybe I'll consider this argument.
BUT IT IS THE LOGICAL COROLLARY TO WHAT YOU HAVE ACTUALLY SAID. If you say that the unwanted must be born, then you are saying, at the very least, that you want them to be born, and anyone who disagrees needs to re-align their wantings with yours.talloulou said:I have not said the unwanted must be wanted.
AND WE HAVE JUSTIFICATION. Parasitic behavior is unacceptable, in all cultures, worldwide, and typically leads to the killing of the parasitic organisms. And that group can include fully-person-class humans who have broken laws against, say, serial killing. Only in special circumstances do we do otherwise --such as when a woman wants to carry a pregnancy to term.talloulou said:I have said that we don't take human lives without justification.
Then reread the above parts of this Message, until you do see it.talloulou said:The termination of human life without any just cause is not acceptable at any other time in the developmental stages a human goes through and I see no good reason why that shouldn't be the case while they reside in utero.
TRUE. But irrelevant to the facts of parasitism.talloulou said:Birth is not a magic moment and rare is the woman who actually gives birth on her due date. We use to be in the dark about the developmental stages and activities in the womb. We no longer are ...
FALSE. We have good reason (preventing a Malthusian Catastrophe) to encourage even more abortions, so long as the global birth-of-the-unborn rate is higher than the global death-of-the-born rate, and other means of birth control are inadequately used.talloulou said:and it's time we stop allowing all this killing.
You have not been asked to offer any such reasons. We as a culture find it sufficient that those "out there" humans are generally so much more mentally capable than ordinary animals, that we have created a "person" category to describe them, and we arbitrarily declare that persons have an equal "right to life" which is greater than any such thing that we might grant to ordinary animals.talloulou said:I can not give you any good reason why the homeless should be allowed to live and really I can't give sufficient reasons of why it would be wrong to end the life of any number of humans out there
This quite simply is because such a large percentage of humans also qualify as persons. So it is easy to make a mistake, to make an all-inclusive and technically inaccurate generalization, that of arbitrarily granting person status to all humans, regardless of whether or not all of them are actually mentally more capable than a cow, or a dog, or a rat, or ....talloulou said:but I do know as a general rule we respect the lives of humans
See? You have made the mistake! Even excepting the unborn, not all humans are persons. The brain-dead on life-support fail to qualify. So do the youngest of infants and the extremely retarded. But that's about all. Otherwise it would not have been a Truth, to have written above, "such a large percentage of humans also qualify as persons".talloulou said:and all humans are "persons" except the unborn
UTTERLY FALSE, since unborn humans are In Measurable Fact no more mentally capable than many average ordinary animals.talloulou said:and there's not a genuinely good reason for that.
FALSE, AGAIN. As just described.talloulou said:There is nothing about the unborn that makes them less worthy of protection than any other human.
See? You have made the mistake! Even excepting the unborn, not all humans are persons. The brain-dead on life-support fail to qualify. So do the youngest of infants and the extremely retarded. But that's about all. Otherwise it would not have been a Truth, to have written above, "such a large percentage of humans also qualify as persons".
Heh, all I did was make a few comments about women who would actually go out and kill their own children, so if that makes me any level of evil then so much lower are the women who actually kill their children...yet you defend them...and I'm the bad one? Talk about calling evil good and good evil.Okay...you are, again, grossly misrepresenting what I said because you didn't like being disagreed with. Nothing new......
If abortion were outlawed how would that be any different from the government outlawing any other "treatment" for any other condition? There are many "treatments" that have been outlawed. There are many drugs that haven't been approved for use and so suffering people go without. I don't see the "my body, my right to abortion as a treatment" argument holding up logically.
For example why does a 17 year old girl have the right to an abortion yet it is illegal for her to be circumcised in the US?
Heh, all I did was make a few comments about women who would actually go out and kill their own children, so if that makes me any level of evil then so much lower are the women who actually kill their children...yet you defend them...and I'm the bad one? Talk about calling evil good and good evil.
..."control of their bodily functions"...pht...as if such women are any better for ENDING the "bodily functions" of their own child...
Uh, maybe because one is a chosen course of treatment for a medical condition and the other is a mutilation to ensure that she does not ever enjoy sex...just a guess though. :doh
You might have a point if they were actually killing children. But then, misrepresenting the fetus as something else is standard pro-life lying at its best.
You might have a point if they were actually killing children. But then, misrepresenting the fetus as something else is standard pro-life lying at its best.
Yeah but there's tons of other "treatments" that are banned. The government does it all the time. Certain breast implants have been banned.
Lethal injections are in many cases illegal.
Even if a dr. argued that a girl had constant recurring yeast infections or urinary tract infections and "circumcision" would help it wouldn't change the fact that the procedure is banned to minors.
Aversion shock therapy is legal in some states illegal in others.
Seems to me that any claims that "your body" gives you the right to demand "certain treatments" is false.
Uh, maybe because one is a chosen course of treatment for a medical condition and the other is a mutilation to ensure that she does not ever enjoy sex...just a guess though. :doh
"Child" 1 and "baby" 1 have pre-birth uses.
A fetus is a "child" 2 and a "baby" 2 is a "child", thus we can call a fetus a "baby" 3.
Legally a "child" 4 is one's natural offspring, which is what a pregnant woman carries.
So, a pregnant woman carries her "child", her "unborn child", her "unborn baby".
This makes her a "parent", spicificly, a “mother”.
Then why were some banned and then made legal again recently?Because they were found to cause cancer.
Of course they are illegal...they kill. Thus the name "lethal injection".
It is considered torture. I don't know of a state that it is actually legal in.
Of course it seems that way when you make specious claims.
I notice how you guys conveniently default to technical definitions and literal denotations when it is convenient to your argument. However, you balk at PC'ers when they demand the same honesty...you guys are becoming a bigger and bigger joke the more you post...so please, do continue. You are only making my job easier. :mrgreen:
Had you ever shown me one dictionary or one encyclopedia that said:
Colon cell: organism.
I'd have shut my mouth. In fact had you shown me any source I'd have shut my mouth. You had nothing. The fact that "unborn & human fetus" are listed under child is plain as day. No mental gymnastics needed to see it.
Had you read the post and followed the logical conclusion we wouldn't be catering to more of your obtuse hysterics right now. I showed you sources. Go ahead and google organism: definition and properties of life. Do it. And then take a crash course in logical deduction. Once you do those things along with getting your hysterics under control, we might be able to continue rationally.
It doesn't matter if it's a colon cell, a liver cell, a skin cell, or a stem cell. Any cell is, by technical definition, an organism because it displays the properties of life on its own. If you can't wrap your mind around that small given, then I really can't even help you any further.
Then why do no sources say exactly that? I can look up the word "being" and no dictionary or legit source will say "unborn" or "fetus." So even though I might think the unborn are human "beings" I won't push it 'cause I can't prove it though I could point to the dictionary definition and show numerous reasons why the unborn by logical deduction should qualify. That is similar to what you did with organism.
Completely different than child which is not really all that debatable a term.
Yet you will continue to balk at other undebateable terms like fetus, zygote, embryo and will do everything in your power to shade their meanings as often as you can.
You said:Say wha...? I think it must be past your bedtime, you're becoming incoherent.
Of course, zygotes/embryos/fetuses can remove themselves from the bodies of pregnant women, and often do, whether said pregnant women want them or not.
What is it, 25%? 30%? More?
Any woman- or any man, for that matter- has the right to remove anyone of any age from their body, if in fact someone is occupying their body against their will.
You said:
Admittedly it was past my bedtime when I responded and hence the wording was a tragedy but my point is still valid.
If anybody has the right to remove any one of any age from their body who is occupying their body against their will then...
The baby in the womb who has a mother who wishes to kill him should also have that right. That mother is occupying that baby's body against his will, so he should be able to carry her to a reverse abortion clinic and have her mutilated and have himself placed in an incubator. Instead of aborting the baby why not abort the mother?
I notice how you guys conveniently default to technical definitions and literal denotations when it is convenient to your argument. However, you balk at PC'ers when they demand the same honesty...you guys are becoming a bigger and bigger joke the more you post...so please, do continue. You are only making my job easier. :mrgreen:
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