ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow) (09/24/84)
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The abortion debate is clearly a battle between divergent moral
philosophies. The notion that personhood begins at birth is
fairly well entrenched in law and scripture. So I'm wondering,
is there any scriptural reference for personhood beginning at
conception? This is a serious question. If some folks are going to,
in Ken Arndt's phrase, "go all the way to the wall" over the
absolute immorality of abortion, I'd like to know where the idea
came from. From a strictly scientific standpoint, the newly
fertilized ovum is clearly not a sentient being. Some pro-abortion
advocates point to scientific data to generalize this statement to
the first trimester. But most anti-abortionists speak of human
potential and a moral code. Is it written down anywhere? I mean, I've
noticed that many anti-abortionists call themselves "born-again"
Christians; none refer to themselves as "conceived-again".
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