arndt@lymph.DEC (08/05/85)
Good ole 'Stupid' (from his cute boring sign off) Charley Forsythe retreats from the 'living' issue and says 'yea, but it ain't human'. (With clever help from his text editor - which he 'loves', hmmmmm.) Er, Charley (I almost said "Sorry Charley!") if the fetus ain't human (but IS livin' as you seem to assent) WHAT KIND OF LIVING THING IS IT???? Moma gonna hatch a chicken??? It's the NOW IT IS, NOW IT ISN'T game that the abortion rights people play that makes not common sense! "Fully human" or "Incomplete" are terms with no content! Because no one can define what they mean. In an other than completely arbitrary way. WHATEVER a 'human' is we all seem to agree that you and I are one of those. Biology is revealing nothing if not just the very point that there is no QUALITATIVE difference between a fetus and you and I!!!! We ARE ALL potentially one day older, if not smarter, human beings! There is, however, just such a qualitative break in the 'living' flow of human cell life. One cannot go back beyond the meeting of the sperm and the egg and speak of a 'human being' because whatever a human being is, a single sperm or egg is NOT one. Masturbation produces no life, etc. Look, it's really very simple even from a moral standpoint, so simple that only the willfully stupid can't understand it. If I place a box of bricks in the path of your car and you get killed because of it, I am responsible for the taking of your life. An abortion is an ACTION that takes away a life (if you can prove it's chicken life you may have something) and there- fore if it is wrong to take a human life it is wrong to take a human life. We're playing the ole "would you kill a chinaman with the push of this little button here if it gave you a million dollars and you never had to see him?" WHY do people have abortions?? Just feel like one today? No, it's a problem to them to have a child right now. "Go ahead, just lay back and let the doctor do it for you; it's only 2 1/2 inchs long and isn't really human some people say." "You'll never have to see 'it'." "All be so much simplier and over in a few seconds." "IT'S LEGAL!" (It used to be legal to scalp indians - women & children too - so I can see the scalp hunter's defense. Haven't we heard the 'scalp hunter's defense from the abortion rights crowd?) Pro abortion people, like Charley, are left trying to defend an absurd position that has to define a point at which the living child BECAME a living child at some 'magical mystical' point in it's development. OR devalue human life! Science shows that it's the same child before 'birth' during 'birth' and after 'birth'. Only the motives of the woman attempt to give difference. "I'm having a baby/abortion." It is no quirk of thought that some have said we should defer giving 'human' status to newborns until a few days after birth when we know that they are healthy. A WOMAN HAS A RIGHT TO AN ABORTION BECAUSE I WANT THE RIGHT TO GET RID OF THIS PROBLEM!! All the rest is smoke. If this value system prevails don't complain when they come for YOU. Regards, Ken Arndt