How about some of the early Planned Parenthood commentary on the subject? What more could one on your side of the fence wish for? It's an interesting read for one who is able to concentrate on the factual content. Dissect it to your heart's content.ShamMol said:Originally Posted by Fantasea
You argue privacy; I argue life.
No matter how you slice it and dice it, the truth never changes. A life is a life. The cowardly men in black threw a sop to the PC crowd to shut them up, never dreaming that in just thirty-two years, the pile of infant corpses would be nearly fifty million high and counting.
The law of unintended consequences is merciless.
Hmm...well, obviously we have very different views of what constitutes a human person. you also mention the pc crowd, i wasn't around then so i can't speak to that, but maybe you could provide some evidence of this so maybe i can see this perspective. oh, and try not to use a pro-life website if you can, if you can't fine, but just try, lol.
What follows is an excerpt from this site:
http://dianedew.com/conceptn.htm
Planned Parenthood, SIECUS admit: Life begins at conception
..DIANE S. DEW © 1998...
...........................................................................................................DIANE S. DEW © 1998...
The year was 1969 ... Law and politics had not yet "altered medical science."* The terminology of medical texts had not yet been changed to depersonalize life in the womb. (The pregnant woman was "the mother" and the fetus was "the child" or "baby.") McGraw-Hill Inc. was publishing a book on Conception, Birth and Contraception and needed some input from an authority on the subject. It turned to Planned Parenthood and the Sex Information & Education Council of the United States.
"This book provides a solid base for understanding the anatomy of reproduction," wrote Mary S. Calderone, MD, Executive Director of SIECUS, in her Introduction to the 129-page book. "Access to such fine books as this one will assure our young people that ... finally adults are becoming willing to 'tell it like it is.'"
Similarly, "Dr. George Langmyhr of Planned Parenthood Federation of America ... reviewed the material on contraception," state authors Robert J. Demarest and John J. Sciarra, MD, PhD, in their Foreword.
Within the pages of Conception, Birth and Contraception, however, the pro-life position is presented with pictorial and verbal accuracy. The book clearly pushes contraceptives, with some faulty information on the safety of the IUD, etc., but the personhood of the unborn is fully supported throughout the text.
In fact, the book's own glossary definition of the term "fetus" begins with: "An unborn child." Pregnancy, likewise, is defined as: "The condition of being with child."
What caused the philosophical flip-flop between 1969 and 1973?
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