AGAIN-sentience and degree of cognitive function are NOT requirements for the right to life-unless you'd like to tell the comatose, those with alzheimers, stroke victims, etcetera, that they're not human beings under your guidelines? On a scale of one to Nazi, who qualifies under these criteria, when the goalposts of bioindepence, sentience and cognitive function can be moved by your ilk at any time? This tweet is extra funny coming from a blowhard that shrills constantly about not relying on the law as a moral compass.
RealtinConnor is the worst pro-abort of them all, with over 36,800 pro-abortion tweets making fun of pro-lifers and all the while claiming he's Catholic. Pray for him, he's gonna be plenty hot.
ReplyDeleteHe's not Catholic, he's an athiest, he says so all the time.
ReplyDeleteIf biological independence is a defining factor, babies in the first year or two of life should be even more disposable than the unborn; after all, a fetus develops pretty much on its own, while an infant requires constant conscious attention. Sentience is a more interesting criterion. I can see how it might be a valid question whether a being that has never been sentient is entitled to the same level of consideration as a sentient being. (For example, whereas after much conflicted thought I've concluded that abortion is unethical even in cases of rape, I don't have any problem whatsoever with the morning-after pill being made available to rape victims.) Cognitive function and nociception are irrelevant outside the concept of sentience, so let's focus on that. Although it's pretty obvious to everyone except Peter Singer that babies (even barely-viable preemies) are sentient, it's probably impossible to pinpoint the exact moment that the light comes on in the fetal brain. It can't be any later than halfway through the pregnancy, as the preemies prove; it can't be any earlier than the onset of neurological activity. An educated guess would be that sentience begins approximately when activity begins in the cerebrum (as opposed to the brainstem). If this were made the criterion for the right to life, especially if we wanted to err on the side of caution and assume any neurological activity at all might indicate some level of sentience, there would be no elective abortions after the first trimester (and possibly not after 6-8 weeks). So no rabid pro-abort has any business talking about sentience as a criterion of lifeworthy humanity unless he is just as rabidly anti-abortion from the second trimester on.
ReplyDeleteLifeLetters - She's right, Realtin is an atheist.
ReplyDeleteTruth - Even IF we knew when that light came on, would it make a difference? They are developing human beings from the moment of conception. As for Plan B, there is no way to know how many conceptions actually took place before it was taken. At $50 (I think) a dose, it's a 'peace of mind' money maker for the pharmaceutical company that makes it. It makes me wonder why Planned Parenthood hasn't sued them for encroachin on their abortion business. And finally, Realtin would support a woman who wanted to abort (kill) her full term fetus. http://twitpic.com/9pwwxo