Hi Platypus.

I still have trouble with equating a fertilized egg with a person. Isn't it like equating an oak with an acorn? The plans are there with the building approval, but no construction has taken place.

'Frankly, you do a terrible job at representing Christ's ethics - displaying for the most part, exactly those qualities which he pleaded against. '

would be much more concern to have your endorsement Poirot. Your endorsement of killing the unborn is abhorrent along with others.

platypus1900
"In just 10 years, 1.5m innocent unborn babies are murdered by their parents"
Really! I am sure that if such were the case the the police would have taken their dutiful action to have these dastardly deed doers before the courts and locked away where they can do no more murders.
I think that abortion for abortion sake is wrong but I do not subscribe to the action as bloody murder.
I feel that there are a lot of women out there who have a genuine fear of the actual birth process and want to avoid it. Abortion provides a way out but Murder? Sorry.
Then there is the result of rape or child abuse. Should the woman/girl be further traumatized by giving birth to what she may well see as the "Spawn of the Devil"? Murder you say> Again, Sorry!
Every case has to be tested in the light of common sense, common decency, common morality and above all the common law.
Under the common law the rights of the mother will always be ascendant over the unborn child.
Now if you want to deepen the waters you may bring religion into the argument.
I actually have some truck with your reference to the fertility rate and the relevance of abortion. The more children that are born the higher the rate and the less importation necessary. But murder?

Dear Yuyutsu,

Thank You for your opinion and as I stated in my
previous post - these ethical and medical and legal
questions will not abate any time soon.

runner,

".....Your endorsement of killing the unborn is abhorrent along with others."

Full of hot air as usual.

Please direct me to anywhere on this thread where I have endorsed anything?

Dear david f,

>>When I was a child and heard the nauseating Abraham and Isaac story I asked my father what he would do if he heard God telling him to sacrifice me. My father told me he would see a psychiatrist.<<

I remember you saying this a couple of times, and it is well put. I never asked my father that question, only asked what it was supposed to mean. He said something like these things should not be told children. I later found out that there were many shocking passages in the Bible (especially in the Old Testament/Tanakh, if I may) but this one is particularly unsuitable for a child’s mind.

At about the same age (12?) we had an old physics teacher who argued strongly against Einstein’s relativity theory. When I asked my father his opinion, he reacted similarly: Einstein’s relativity theory is not something that can be grasped - including the arguments for and against - by a twelve years old.

My father was not a biblical scholar, and he most certainly did not understand Einstein’s theory (he was a lawyer). But he apparently understood what was and what was not appropriate for a twelve years old.