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Title: Horrible
Post by: Gina on February 08, 2011, 05:53:05 PM
Facebook message of one of my friends

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please pray... if you can. pray that a lady i know doesn't go through with an abortion just because of gender. Please say a prayer. Procedure is scheduled for tomorrow.

I just want to beat the shit out of this woman that is even considering this.  She is 16 weeks pregnant and has 2 other daughters.  She is upset she is having another daughter. :banghead:
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Evil_Conservative on February 08, 2011, 05:54:44 PM
Seriously, Gina?  What a selfish bitch.  Shame on the doctor that would preform the abortion.  That's murder.  Who cares if you're having yet another daughter?  What is she going to tell her daughter's when they asked what happened to their baby sister or brother?

Disgusting.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Gina on February 08, 2011, 06:00:03 PM
I don't know :( 

I actually had a moment where I hoped that if she is going to kill that baby, that she has a car wreck on the way to the procedure and she goes too.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Evil_Conservative on February 08, 2011, 06:02:21 PM
I don't know :( 

I actually had a moment where I hoped that if she is going to kill that baby, that she has a car wreck on the way to the procedure and she goes too.

I hope she never gets pregnant again if she goes through with the procedure.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Ballygrl on February 08, 2011, 06:21:41 PM
What an idiot! Just said a prayer now that this woman changes her mind.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: seahorse513 on February 08, 2011, 06:27:01 PM
With so many women who cannot have children for whatever reason(myself included) let me be the first to :bs: this woman!!!!!!
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: NHSparky on February 08, 2011, 06:55:24 PM
This isn't about a woman's "choice".  It's pure evil in the name of convenience, plain and simple.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: compaqxp on February 08, 2011, 07:00:37 PM
We need tougher regulation for things like this so this can't happen.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Ballygrl on February 08, 2011, 07:28:35 PM
The only time certain elective abortions will be eliminated if if they find a "gay gene" and it would be illegal to murder your baby in the womb if they were found to have that gene. The difference between the left and the right though is this, we would be against aborting a child with a "gay gene" as much as we are for aborting a child because of their sex or the inconvenience of it, but the left is all for abortion except if a "gay gene" was to be found, then it would be wrong!
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Boudicca on February 08, 2011, 07:31:47 PM
The only time certain elective abortions will be eliminated if if they find a "gay gene" and it would be illegal to murder your baby in the womb if they were found to have that gene. The difference between the left and the right though is this, we would be against aborting a child with a "gay gene" as much as we are for aborting a child because of their sex or the inconvenience of it, but the left is all for abortion except if a "gay gene" was to be found, then it would be wrong!
I'm actually fairly astonished that the Left is so pro abortion, since quite a vast amount of abortions are performed on brown and black babies.  This is counter to their use as "persecuted minority" groups, plus it takes away potential future Democratic voters. :p
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Gina on February 08, 2011, 07:39:28 PM
The only time certain elective abortions will be eliminated if if they find a "gay gene" and it would be illegal to murder your baby in the womb if they were found to have that gene. The difference between the left and the right though is this, we would be against aborting a child with a "gay gene" as much as we are for aborting a child because of their sex or the inconvenience of it, but the left is all for abortion except if a "gay gene" was to be found, then it would be wrong!

Brilliant post and so true!  ^5
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: thundley4 on February 08, 2011, 07:46:54 PM
I'm actually fairly astonished that the Left is so pro abortion, since quite a vast amount of abortions are performed on brown and black babies.  This is counter to their use as "persecuted minority" groups, plus it takes away potential future Democratic voters. :p

They deny and obfuscate those facts showing that minorities are the targeted group of abortionists.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: dandi on February 08, 2011, 08:37:00 PM
We need tougher regulation for things like this so this can't happen.

You need to sit your ass in a corner and color.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: njpines on February 08, 2011, 09:00:46 PM
I'm actually fairly astonished that the Left is so pro abortion, since quite a vast amount of abortions are performed on brown and black babies.  This is counter to their use as "persecuted minority" groups, plus it takes away potential future Democratic voters. :p

Eugenics is a sick and twisted ideology -- no real difference between it and Hitler's idea of the Aryan 'master' race, just different methods by which to get there.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: thundley4 on February 08, 2011, 09:08:24 PM
You need to sit your ass in a corner and color.

hi5  :rotf:
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Alpha Mare on February 08, 2011, 09:17:26 PM
I'm actually fairly astonished that the Left is so pro abortion, since quite a vast amount of abortions are performed on brown and black babies.  This is counter to their use as "persecuted minority" groups, plus it takes away potential future Democratic voters. :p

It's about the right to sleep with whoever they drag home and not 'be punished with a baby as a result of that mistake.'  It's birth control for selfish, irresponsible ****tards and that's all it is.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 08, 2011, 10:17:09 PM
Seriously, Gina?  What a selfish bitch.  Shame on the doctor that would preform the abortion.  That's murder.  Who cares if you're having yet another daughter?  What is she going to tell her daughter's when they asked what happened to their baby sister or brother?

Disgusting.

In your opinion, its murder.  But neither this woman, nor I (nor anyone) else are rationally obligated to agree with your conclusion based on any demonstrable facts.  In fact, the underpinnings of most pro-life opinions are based squarely on theological/religious thought... so we certainly arent obligated to accept and adhere to those beliefs either.   I say abortion (up to a point) is not murder.

And abortions happen every day here, this is not a unique occurrence - there are somewhere in between 500,000-1,000,000 each year in the US.  Why is everyone so shocked and appalled that some woman somebody knows is having one?  
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Ballygrl on February 08, 2011, 10:32:28 PM
In your opinion, its murder.  But neither this woman, nor I (nor anyone) else are rationally obligated to agree with your conclusion based on any demonstrable facts.  In fact, the underpinnings of most pro-life opinions are based squarely on theological/religious thought... so we certainly arent obligated to accept and adhere to those beliefs either.   I say abortion (up to a point) is not murder.

And abortions happen every day here, this is not a unique occurrence - there are somewhere in between 500,000-1,000,000 each year in the US.  Why is everyone so shocked and appalled that some woman somebody knows is having one?

You say up to a point it isn't murder, what is the breaking point for you? why would it be allowable say 1 day yet a day later not allowable? As far as being shocked and appalled? I'm shocked and appalled at every abortion, but when you hear excuses given as a reason for it as stated in the OP? that totally destroys the "poor woman made a mistake" argument.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: catsmtrods on February 08, 2011, 10:39:23 PM
I got it. Why don't she just kill her least favorite daughter and have this one? She might get lucky and get one she likes?
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 08, 2011, 10:44:52 PM
You say up to a point it isn't murder, what is the breaking point for you? why would it be allowable say 1 day yet a day later not allowable? As far as being shocked and appalled?

My view is a pretty standard pro-choice one - I think abortion is morally acceptable (though not really desirable) until about ~22 weeks - which is the point in pregnancy after which we really can't be sure the fetus is totally mindless.

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I'm shocked and appalled at every abortion, but when you hear excuses given as a reason for it as stated in the OP? that totally destroys the "poor woman made a mistake" argument.

I don't know if I really agree with her reasons either, though I would never attempt to prohibit abortions for those kinds of reasons by law.  I'd hope that social pressures or taboos could minimize the abortions with "bad" reasons behind them.   Even if I don't consider it murder to terminate a pregnancy (within the aforementioned parameters) I think it could be bad overall for people to have them because they don't have the right gender, hair color, genetic predispositions, etc..
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Ballygrl on February 08, 2011, 10:59:16 PM
My view is a pretty standard pro-choice one - I think abortion is morally acceptable (though not really desirable) until about ~22 weeks - which is the point in pregnancy after which we really can't be sure the fetus is totally mindless.

I don't know if I really agree with her reasons either, though I would never attempt to prohibit abortions for those kinds of reasons by law.  I'd hope that social pressures or taboos could minimize the abortions with "bad" reasons behind them.   Even if I don't consider it murder to terminate a pregnancy (within the aforementioned parameters) I think it could be bad overall for people to have them because they don't have the right gender, hair color, genetic predispositions, etc..

OK, the only problem is this though, you say up to week 22 is OK for you

Week 21:

(http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj140/RepublicanandProud/fetusweek21.jpg)

Week 22:

(http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj140/RepublicanandProud/fetusweek22.jpg)

Week 23:

(http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj140/RepublicanandProud/fetusweek23.jpg)

The baby continues to develop but many of the things that have formed in week 21 are the same as week 22 and week 23, and the baby has only gained .01 pounds in weight in those 2 weeks, and the height difference in those 2 weeks is less than an inch. So why is week 21 and 22 acceptable but week 23 isn't?
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Evil_Conservative on February 08, 2011, 11:01:28 PM
In your opinion, its murder.  But neither this woman, nor I (nor anyone) else are rationally obligated to agree with your conclusion based on any demonstrable facts.  In fact, the underpinnings of most pro-life opinions are based squarely on theological/religious thought... so we certainly arent obligated to accept and adhere to those beliefs either.   I say abortion (up to a point) is not murder.

And abortions happen every day here, this is not a unique occurrence - there are somewhere in between 500,000-1,000,000 each year in the US.  Why is everyone so shocked and appalled that some woman somebody knows is having one? 

Shut the **** up.

It's murder.  She is aborting the baby because the baby isn't the gender SHE wanted.  It's completely selfish.  I feel bad for her two children she already has.  This "woman" is willing to kill a child over GENDER. 

You make me sick.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Evil_Conservative on February 08, 2011, 11:33:28 PM
I'd like to apologize for telling rubliw to 'shut the **** up', that was rude.  But, you still make me sick.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: seahorse513 on February 09, 2011, 01:21:49 AM
I think it is sad that an unborn baby's life will be terminated because she is a girl. Each gender has something to give to society, A male provides for and protects the family, while a women carries and nutures future generations. Though nowadays many people(especially single parents) have to play dual roles. Not only that we have different family variations other than the traditional mom and dad. We have kids being raised by grandparents or other relatives, foster parents, even same gender parents.

I personally hope that this woman will reconsider.....
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Gina on February 09, 2011, 02:17:31 AM
My view is a pretty standard pro-choice one - I think abortion is morally acceptable (though not really desirable) until about ~22 weeks - which is the point in pregnancy after which we really can't be sure the fetus is totally mindless.

I don't know if I really agree with her reasons either, though I would never attempt to prohibit abortions for those kinds of reasons by law.  I'd hope that social pressures or taboos could minimize the abortions with "bad" reasons behind them.   Even if I don't consider it murder to terminate a pregnancy (within the aforementioned parameters) I think it could be bad overall for people to have them because they don't have the right gender, hair color, genetic predispositions, etc..


Not sure of your gender but I am guessing male.   I have 3 kids and they were hardfought for over 11 years.  To say it's morally acceptable when at 16 weeks you can feel this BABY moving around inside is disgusting.  It should never get to be morally acceptable to kill an unborn because some woman chose to spread her legs and not take ALL precautions since sex is known to create a living being.  I can handle a woman in the case of rape or health of mom/child having an abortion but would hope it would be done very early on if possible. 

Babies become viable at 24 weeks, meaning they could survive with help outside the womb.  There have been cases of babies younger than 24 weeks  surviving. 

As someone said, it will only be unnacceptable if they discover the gay gene.     I do hope this woman's heart and mind are so traumatized that she will never have another peaceful day in her life,.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: BlueStateSaint on February 09, 2011, 04:13:49 AM
I'd like to apologize for telling rubliw to 'shut the **** up', that was rude.  But, you still make me sick.

I H5ed you for that.  And a BS to rubliw.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Gina on February 09, 2011, 06:14:44 AM
damn, I got 5 bs's overnight.   :lmao:
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: catsmtrods on February 09, 2011, 07:26:40 AM
My view is a pretty standard pro-choice one - I think abortion is morally acceptable (though not really desirable) until about ~22 weeks - which is the point in pregnancy after which we really can't be sure the fetus is totally mindless.


Since you are "totally mindless" It would be OK to kill you?  (though not really desirable) But morally acceptable.  :thatsright:
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: JohnnyReb on February 09, 2011, 07:31:48 AM
I spent 18 years with a woman that couldn't get pregnant. Then these liberal bitches throw away unborn babies like they're empty cans. They implant fetuses in surrogate cows, wonder why they couldn't do that for infertile women. Don't want the baby, let some infertile woman bear it.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: dandi on February 09, 2011, 08:30:28 AM
In your opinion, its murder.  But neither this woman, nor I (nor anyone) else are rationally obligated to agree with your conclusion based on any demonstrable facts.

No, it's not an opinion of it being murder, it is a murder of convenience simply because she doesn't like the sex of an unborn child.  That is a fact, wilbur, that no one on this board can change.  There is nothing "pro choice" about whether or not a child dies because of sex just as there was nothing "pro choice" about how the Communist Chinese handle population control (http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/c-wnhol.html) in their country.  It's sick and inhuman, and you are a part of that death cult.

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In fact, the underpinnings of most pro-life opinions are based squarely on theological/religious thought... so we certainly arent obligated to accept and adhere to those beliefs either.

No, wilbur, they are based squarely on the value of all human life.  It doesn't take a shaman, priest, minister, imam, or anyone else to tell anyone that retains any shred of common sense and human decency that killing the most innocent and helpless among us for a matter of convenience is wrong.

Quite frankly, wilbur, you should be very grateful that there are more of us than there are of you.  That sanctity of human life that we hold so dear in our society is one of the only reasons you are safe in your house and on the streets in our country.  When a majority of the populace puts no value on life, yours will become very cheap.

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I say abortion (up to a point) is not murder.

Apparently there are those in the world that put that same philosophy to use and their standard can vary from several weeks to several years old.  How about you, wilbur?  Would allowing a 2 year old starve to death fit your "up to a point" standard?  Is that okay in your world since she's a girl?

While I'm sure the Chinese would welcome you with open arms, the rest of us that actually care about life "arent obligated to accept and adhere to those beliefs".

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Why is everyone so shocked and appalled that some woman somebody knows is having one?  

Because we're not liberal monsters who practice eugenics, wilbur.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Karin on February 09, 2011, 08:31:36 AM
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But neither this woman, nor I (nor anyone) else are rationally obligated to agree with your conclusion based on any demonstrable facts.

Look at the language this douchebag uses.  Pseudo-scientific, with the left's favorite progressive words.  Just couch it in professorial language, and everything is supposed to be morally superior.  

We know this stupid little practice.  It makes our eyes roll, and makes you look like a complete asshole.  

"Demonstrable fact" ----> Heartbeat.  DNA.  
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: dandi on February 09, 2011, 08:41:30 AM
Look at the language this douchebag uses.  Pseudo-scientific, with the left's favorite progressive words.  Just couch it in professorial language, and everything is supposed to be morally superior.  

We know this stupid little practice.  It makes our eyes roll, and makes you look like a complete asshole.  

"Demonstrable fact" ----> Heartbeat.  DNA.  

This mewling little pissant (wilbur) is a prime example of why liberalism does not survive contact with reality.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: njpines on February 09, 2011, 09:02:05 AM
This mewling little pissant (wilbur) is a prime example of why liberalism does not survive contact with reality.

I applaud your patience taking his "argument" apart piece by piece.  My inclination after I read that garbage was to reply thusly:  Hey Wilbur --  :bird: off!

 :-)
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: dandi on February 09, 2011, 09:13:05 AM
I applaud your patience taking his "argument" apart piece by piece.  My inclination after I read that garbage was to reply thusly:  Hey Wilbur --  :bird: off!

 :-)

 :-)
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Gina on February 09, 2011, 11:08:31 AM
Update!!!!!Update!!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!  

This is posted on her FB page this morning

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She couldn't do it. She was so resolved about it on email. So thankful. She has some major issues though... (The mom) obviously but praise God. She emailed me just a bit ago. Thank u for praying.

So sorry rubliw, good came through today.

(http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii269/theogrit/sign%20or%20English%20smilies/2sgn038praise.gif)
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: dandi on February 09, 2011, 11:16:25 AM
Update!!!!!Update!!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!  

This is posted on her FB page this morning

So sorry rubliw, good came through today.

(http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii269/theogrit/sign%20or%20English%20smilies/2sgn038praise.gif)

Good to hear.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 09, 2011, 11:23:45 AM
No, it's not an opinion of it being murder, it is a murder of convenience simply because she doesn't like the sex of an unborn child.  That is a fact, wilbur, that no one on this board can change.  There is nothing "pro choice" about whether or not a child dies because of sex just as there was nothing "pro choice" about how the Communist Chinese handle population control (http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/c-wnhol.html) in their country.  It's sick and inhuman, and you are a part of that death cult.

My position is that the term murder cannot sensibly apply to mindless things.   You can't murder a plant, or a microorganism.  You can only kill them.  You can't murder a zygote.  You can only kill it.   You can't murder a brain dead human kept alive on a respirator and feeding tubes - you can only kill them.    

And I agree China's policies are abhorrent and inconsistent with human rights, but that is because women are often forced by the government to have abortions in order to limit family size.  

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No, wilbur, they are based squarely on the value of all human life.

The presumption that pro-choicers don't value life is all too often little more than obstinate and intentional demonization.  My pro-choice beliefs contain the assumption that life has value, but things go a level deeper than that. Not all life has value, just some of it.  So we have to ask why life has value.

So why does (some) life have value, while other life does not?  Ask a pro-lifer what makes life valuable, and you're likely to get theology about God, souls, and the like.  So yes, in the end - its still mostly theology and religious belief that informs the pro-life position on the value of life.

For a number of reasons, I happen to think the typical pro-life answers as to what gives life value fail to actually capture the things that do make it valuable.   And this inevitably leads them to make misguided judgments which wrongly conclude that some forms of life actually have little or no value when they really do (many animals), and conversely, that some forms of life actually have more value than they do (ex. zygotes and fetuses).

My answer is the presence or absence of a mind.   I think this this gives us a much better map of the moral territory we must all navigate.

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It doesn't take a shaman, priest, minister, imam, or anyone else to tell anyone that retains any shred of common sense and human decency that killing the most innocent and helpless among us for a matter of convenience is wrong.

Apparently it does, because the nation has been quite divided on the issue for a long time - the slight advantage in numbers has traditionally been on the pro-choicer side, though I'm not sure what the current numbers are.  

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Quite frankly, wilbur, you should be very grateful that there are more of us than there are of you.  That sanctity of human life that we hold so dear in our society is one of the only reasons you are safe in your house and on the streets in our country.  When a majority of the populace puts no value on life, yours will become very cheap.

Again,  I value human life - and other forms of life - quite dearly, as I explained above.    

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Apparently there are those in the world that put that same philosophy to use and their standard can vary from several weeks to several years old.  How about you, wilbur?  Would allowing a 2 year old starve to death fit your "up to a point" standard?  Is that okay in your world since she's a girl?

Nope, not even a little bit.

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While I'm sure the Chinese would welcome you with open arms, the rest of us that actually care about life "arent obligated to accept and adhere to those beliefs".

Because we're not liberal monsters who practice eugenics, wilbur.


Let me ask you this (or anyone else)... since there has been all this chatter about gay genes and abortion.   Imagine if we discovered genes that gave children homosexual predispositions.  Imagine we developed completely safe gene therapy treatments that allowed us to alter those genes (in the womb) so that the homosexual predisposition was removed.    Imagine that your un-bold child tested positive for those genes.    Would you submit to the therapy?    
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: seahorse513 on February 09, 2011, 11:25:05 AM
Update!!!!!Update!!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!  

This is posted on her FB page this morning

So sorry rubliw, good came through today.

(http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii269/theogrit/sign%20or%20English%20smilies/2sgn038praise.gif)
YEAH!@!!!! I am so glad, she will be giving this baby a chance
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 09, 2011, 11:31:33 AM
Update!!!!!Update!!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!  

This is posted on her FB page this morning

So sorry rubliw, good came through today.

(http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii269/theogrit/sign%20or%20English%20smilies/2sgn038praise.gif)

What makes you think I am unhappy that she decided to have the child?

First, I already stated that I thought gender was not a particularly good reason for an abortion and one that we should generally resist culturally.  Second, I don't celebrate abortions, nor does any pro-choice person that I know of.  

I do celebrate the right the woman has to choose though.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Eupher on February 09, 2011, 11:39:20 AM
damn, I got 5 bs's overnight.   :lmao:

Hey, it happens.  :-)
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Eupher on February 09, 2011, 11:48:57 AM
This mewling little pissant (wilbur) is a prime example of why liberalism does not survive contact with reality.

wilbur's tri- and even quatrochotomous bullshit, e.g., hearing him rant and rave about "a woman's right to choose" versus his ramblings about "murder" versus "killing" and then attempt to double back and claim he's not keen on the idea, that it's not his preferred way of dealing with a problem unborn child, remind me of so many slick politicians who suck in those who are all-too-willing to drink the Kool-Aid and vote the bastard in office. Or sign off on legislation that hasn't been read yet.

You running for office, wilbur?  :whatever:

Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: dandi on February 09, 2011, 11:51:44 AM
My position is that the term murder cannot sensibly apply to mindless things.   You can't murder a plant, or a microorganism.  You can only kill them.  You can't murder a zygote.  You can only kill it.   You can't murder a brain dead human kept alive on a respirator and feeding tubes - you can only kill them.

Ah, the liberal it-can't-possibly-be-murder-because-murder-is-something-else-entirely semantics game.

Okay, wilbur, would you prefer kill?  How about liquidate?  Erase a more palatable term? 

Honestly, wilbur, all of those words and all of your pseudo intellectual pap don't change the final outcome - dead.  

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And I agree China's policies are abhorrent and inconsistent with human rights, but that is because women are often forced by the government to have abortions in order to limit family size.

You didn't even bother to click the link, did you? 

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The presumption that pro-choicers don't value life is all too often little more than obstinate and intentional demonization.

Wow....  Let's contrast this with the following, shall we?

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My pro-choice beliefs contain the assumption that life has value, but things go a level deeper than that. Not all life has value, though, just some of it. So we have to ask why life has value.

Your words, Herr Himmler, not mine.

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So why does (some) life have value, while other life does not?  My answer is the presence or absence of a mind.

So, you would be all for sterilizing and/or "liquidating" the mentally handicapped?  Who would you place in the "untermensch" category, wilbur?

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Ask a pro-lifer what makes life valuable, and you're likely to get theology about God, souls, and the like.  So yes, in the end - its still mostly theology and religious belief that informs the pro-life position on the value of life.

 :rotf:

Assume much, wilbur?  What makes life valuable is life itself, wilbur.  As one who holds all human life precious, I don't expect a pro-deather like you to understand that. 

In the absence of God, it boils down to human compassion and dignity, wilbur.  Not selecting who lives or dies because she's a girl.

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For a number of reasons, I happen to think the typical pro-life answers as to what makes life valuable fail to actually capture the things that actually make it valuable.

Like whether or not a baby is going to be born a girl?  This is not an esoteric conversation, wilbur, but one dealing directly with a woman killing an unborn child simply because of it's sex. 

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And this inevitably leads them to make misguided judgments that conclude that some forms of valuable life actually have little or no value, and conversely, that some forms of valueless life, actually have more value than they do.

So the Chinese model of killing girls is the one to follow?  Or should we stick to what Margaret Sanger wanted and kill all of the "untermensch" in the womb? 

Which is it, wilbur?

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Apparently it does, because the nation has been quite divided on the issue for a long time - the slight advantage in numbers has traditionally been on the pro-choicer side, though I'm not sure what the current numbers are.

Don't fool yourself, wilbur, your side has been killing itself off for going on 40 years.  Through technology, education, attrition through death in the womb, you are losing.

Thank God...

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Again,  I value human life - and other forms of life - quite dearly, as I explained above.
 

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My pro-choice beliefs contain the assumption that life has value, but things go a level deeper than that. Not all life has value, though, just some of it. So we have to ask why life has value.
 

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Let me ask you this (or anyone else)... since there has been all this chatter about gay genes and abortion.   Imagine if we discovered genes that gave children homosexual predispositions.  Imagine we developed completely safe gene therapy treatments that allowed us to alter those genes (in the womb) so that the homosexual predisposition was removed.    Imagine that your un-bold child tested positive for those genes.    Would you submit to the therapy?  

How about you stay on target and not try and change the subject.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: dandi on February 09, 2011, 11:54:02 AM
I don't celebrate abortions, nor does any pro-choice person that I know of.  

I do celebrate the right the woman has to choose though.

I'll bet you are one of those "I support the troops but not their mission" weasels, aren't you?
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: dandi on February 09, 2011, 11:55:21 AM
wilbur's tri- and even quatrochotomous bullshit, e.g., hearing him rant and rave about "a woman's right to choose" versus his ramblings about "murder" versus "killing" and then attempt to double back and claim he's not keen on the idea, that it's not his preferred way of dealing with a problem unborn child, remind me of so many slick politicians who suck in those who are all-too-willing to drink the Kool-Aid and vote the bastard in office. Or sign off on legislation that hasn't been read yet.

Same bullshit tactics that are used every time liberalism has a light of reality shined on it.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Ballygrl on February 09, 2011, 11:56:19 AM
Update!!!!!Update!!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!  

This is posted on her FB page this morning

So sorry rubliw, good came through today.

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All the prayers worked!
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Evil_Conservative on February 09, 2011, 12:07:22 PM
Update!!!!!Update!!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!Update!!!!!Update!!!  

This is posted on her FB page this morning

So sorry rubliw, good came through today.

(http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii269/theogrit/sign%20or%20English%20smilies/2sgn038praise.gif)

That's great news!

I'm still worried for the little girl though.  Only because the mom didn't want her at 16 weeks, so I worry about the 40 week mark.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Ballygrl on February 09, 2011, 12:21:27 PM
So why does (some) life have value, while other life does not?  Ask a pro-lifer what makes life valuable, and you're likely to get theology about God, souls, and the like.  So yes, in the end - its still mostly theology and religious belief that informs the pro-life position on the value of life.

Actually I'm Catholic but my pro-life views have more to do with seeing pictures of babies aborted and a personal story then they do for any Religious reasons.

I won't go into too many details but I'll tell you a personal story about abortion.

I have a half Sister born in the 1950's, we have the same Father but different Mothers, my Sister's Mother and my Father had an argument, her Mother did something in the heat of the moment to lose my Sister, she went into labor and my Sister was born but wasn't expected to survive but SHE DID, because she was so small she was put into an incubator, she became blind from it, and because this was the 1950's and she was born so soon she was retarded, my Father divorced the woman and got custody of my Sister, my Sister had to eventually be institutionalized. Have you ever seen the movie Rainman? that was similar to our story, my Sister had to be institutionalized because the Doctors were fearful she would try to hurt me, they basically said to my Parents that you have to make a choice and you really need to focus on the healthy child. You have no idea the guilt my Father and in turn I felt because of a choice that a selfish woman decided to make, a choice that wasn't hers, a choice that's up to God to make. My Sister was denied a normal life because of a disgusting choice this woman made, but my Sister has every right to be in this world, she just should've been able to live the way God wanted her to live.

Too many people have a nonchalant attitude when it comes to abortion, it's just a bunch of cells, no it's not, it's a human life in the beginning stages, and you know what? if it's just a bunch of cells then there should be no reason at all that a woman, who should've used protection beforehand, shouldn't be shown exactly what she's aborting, and that includes watching an ultrasound of what she's doing away with, let her see her child struggling because he/she are in survival mode, pictures should be taken of her aborted child and given to the woman, and let's start calling it what it is, no more medical terms describing the procedure, I'm on the pro-life side so let's start calling the opposition pro-abortion or pro-death, because that's exactly what that view is. And let's start getting graphic here, you tell me these aren't babies:

http://www.100abortionpictures.com/Aborted_Baby_Pictures_Abortion_Photos/

Getting off my soapbox now, it's such an infuriating subject.

Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Ballygrl on February 09, 2011, 12:25:06 PM
The actual point of my rant is this, there's only 1 person in charge of life and death and that's God, not man.

ETA: I guess a part of my views on abortion are Religious based contrary to what I said in the beginning.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: dandi on February 09, 2011, 12:31:55 PM
Too many people have a nonchalant attitude when it comes to abortion, it's just a bunch of cells, no it's not, it's a human life in the beginning stages, and you know what? if it's just a bunch of cells then there should be no reason at all that a woman, who should've used protection beforehand, shouldn't be shown exactly what she's aborting, and that includes watching an ultrasound of what she's doing away with, let her see her child struggling because he/she are in survival mode, pictures should be taken of her aborted child and given to the woman, and let's start calling it what it is, no more medical terms describing the procedure, I'm on the pro-life side so let's start calling the opposition pro-abortion or pro-death, because that's exactly what that view is. And let's start getting graphic here, you tell me these aren't babies:

http://www.100abortionpictures.com/Aborted_Baby_Pictures_Abortion_Photos/

Getting off my soapbox now, it's such an infuriating subject.

Bravo, Bally, well said.

I expect, though, your salient point will be lost on wilbur.  Pro-deathers are just as bent in the head as jihadis and just as rooted in their "faith".
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 09, 2011, 12:43:41 PM
Ah, the liberal it-can't-possibly-be-murder-because-murder-is-something-else-entirely semantics game.

Okay, wilbur, would you prefer kill?  How about liquidate?  Erase a more palatable term?

Honestly, wilbur, all of those words and all of your pseudo intellectual pap don't change the final outcome - dead.  

Nor is the nature of the outcome changed for all of your rhetorical bluster and bold words.   All except late term abortions literally kill a mindless thing.    Sure its dead - we agree.  But so what? That's the point of abortion.

When look at all the things in this world to which my compassion extends, I find that no mindless thing is on that list.   And I have yet to encounter a good argument as to why I should include any mindless thing on that list.

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Wow....  Let's contrast this with the following, shall we?

Your words, Herr Himmler, not mine.

So, you would be all for sterilizing and/or "liquidating" the mentally handicapped?  Who would you place in the "untermensch" category, wilbur?

 :rotf:

Do the mentally handicapped have minds?  Yes?  Well, then it should be abundantly clear that the term "mindless" does not apply to them.    

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Assume much, wilbur?  What makes life valuable is life itself, wilbur.  As one who holds all human life precious, I don't expect a pro-deather like you to understand that.  

So, life is valuable because it is.  How does this assertion inform you about the value of dogs, cats, weeds, and cockroaches?  How does this assertion inform you to the value of a human "living cadaver", kept alive only to harvest organs?

It doesn't.  It obfuscates the the very real and important moral distinctions we make between living things - even human living things.

In the end, the term "human" is just a species categorization, not a moral boundary - and using it as such is arbitrary and ultimately unsupportable.  We could have carved up and named the natural world in a number of ways - we might have decided to call zygotes something other than human.  We might have decided to call children under the age of 5 something other than human.     Would your moral regard then have to be carved up similarly?   Of course not, but ultimately that's what results from defining your moral sphere by the category "human".

My criteria - the presence or absence of a mind - does much better because it much more precisely gets at what is intuitively valuable about things in this world.

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In the absence of God, it boils down to human compassion and dignity, wilbur.  Not selecting who lives or dies because she's a girl.

Where's the compassion and dignity in the death wishes for the lady in this thread?  My compassion extends to those women who are in tough spots and feel that abortions might be necessary.   While the woman's initial decision to abort based on sex is deserving of condemnation in my book, its still not murder.

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Like whether or not a baby is going to be born a girl?  This is not an esoteric conversation, wilbur, but one dealing directly with a woman killing an unborn child simply because of it's sex.  

Yea, and I'm on record as saying that that isn't a good reason for an abortion.  

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So the Chinese model of killing girls is the one to follow?  Or should we stick to what Margaret Sanger wanted and kill all of the "untermensch" in the womb?  

Which is it, wilbur?

No, I think my position is the one to follow - and you're bound to continue to misinterpret it if you remain determined to interpret it as similar to the China's cultural and government policies, or the beliefs of Sanger.   My views arent remotely similar.

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Don't fool yourself, wilbur, your side has been killing itself off for going on 40 years.  Through technology, education, attrition through death in the womb, you are losing.

Thank God...

What side would that be?  Abortions are had by women across the spectrum.   Most abortions are had by women who belong to religious which strongly prohibit them.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Ballygrl on February 09, 2011, 12:47:45 PM
Bravo, Bally, well said.

I expect, though, your salient point will be lost on wilbur.  Pro-deathers are just as bent in the head as jihadis and just as rooted in their "faith".

I blame the left for that, they had to tone down such a horrendous act and society has followed suit in continuing to tone it down. Thank God a poll I saw about a year or so ago said the majority of people in the US felt abortion is wrong.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: dandi on February 09, 2011, 01:38:59 PM
Nor is the nature of the outcome changed for all of your rhetorical bluster and bold words.   All except late term abortions literally kill a mindless thing.    Sure its dead - we agree.  But so what? That's the point of abortion.

When look at all the things in this world to which my compassion extends, I find that no mindless thing is on that list.   And I have yet to encounter a good argument as to why I should include any mindless thing on that list.

You're a ghoul, wilbur, in the purest sense of the word.

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So, life is valuable because it is.  How does this assertion inform you about the value of dogs, cats, weeds, and cockroaches?

What part of "all human life" did you miss in my post, wilbur?

We are not the final arbiters of who lives and who dies as a means of convenience, wilbur.  That is the point that seems to keep sailing over your head.

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How does this assertion inform you to the value of a human "living cadaver", kept alive only to harvest organs?

Can anyone translate this for me?  My DUmbass to English dictionary is missing.

 :whatever:

What the **** are you talking about?  Has anything I have posted lead you to believe that making living cadavers has anything to do with a purposeful selection of killing an unborn child because of it's sex?

Pay attention, wilbur - "all human life".

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It doesn't.  It obfuscates the the very real and important moral distinctions we make between living things - even human living things.

In the end, the term "human" is just a species categorization, not a moral boundary - and using it as such is arbitrary and ultimately unsupportable.

Funny, there have been societies that thought the same thing.  And when they figured out that human beings were nothing more than a species categorization instead of a moral boundary, they came to the conclusion that not all life was valuable.

Is any of this starting to sound familiar to what you are saying, wilbur?

The inevitable outcome ended up killing millions of less than valuable life.  That's quite a philosophy you're sporting, wilbur, and it's one that has played out before.

Incidentally, these are the same societies who present, and past, have no problem killing in the womb or allowing less than valuable life end from neglect.  You're of the same mind with them, wilbur, you're just too deep into your pseudo intellect to be able to admit it.

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We could have carved up and named the natural world in a number of ways - we might have decided to call zygotes something other than human.  We might have decided to call children under the age of 5 something other than human.     Would your moral regard then have to be carved up similarly?   Of course not, but ultimately that's what results from defining your moral sphere by the category "human".

Absolute ghoul...

This line of thought, my friends, is a prime example of the callousness towards any life that a liberal does not agree exists.

Incidentally, wilbur, my moral regard is not defined by "species". 

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My criteria - the presence or absence of a mind - does much better because it much more precisely gets at what is intuitively valuable about things in this world.

So, the cockroaches are safe around you?

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Where's the compassion and dignity in the death wishes for the lady in this thread?
 

I am concerned with only your callousness towards her unborn child, wilbur.

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My compassion extends to those women who are in tough spots and feel that abortions might be necessary.

Necessary?  Like in this example?

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While the woman's initial decision to abort based on sex is deserving of condemnation in my book, its still not murder.

No, it's a killing of convenience. 

Not necessary in the least.

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No, I think my position is the one to follow - and you're bound to continue to misinterpret it if you remain determined to interpret it as similar to the China's cultural and government policies, or the beliefs of Sanger.   My views arent remotely similar.

Not all life being equally valuable, wilbur?  Are you sure?

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What side would that be?

Your side, wilbur.  The side that dismisses the unborn with a nonchalant wave of the hand.

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Most abortions are had by women who belong to religious which strongly prohibit them.

Sure they are, wilbur...
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 09, 2011, 03:43:45 PM
You're a ghoul, wilbur, in the purest sense of the word.

I'm always amazed at the speed with which so many pro-lifers start to view people with reasonable and respectful objections to their beliefs as inhuman ghouls.   A little ironic when you think about it.

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What part of "all human life" did you miss in my post, wilbur?

There are edge cases which you are failing to account for, such as human cadavers (brain dead people who are still "alive"), and other forms of life.  We need a framework for all of it.  More on this in a little bit.

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We are not the final arbiters of who lives and who dies as a means of convenience, wilbur.  That is the point that seems to keep sailing over your head.

In many cases we are - reality often doesnt offer us any choice in the matter.  So we have to come up with a useful framework with which to make the right decisions.  

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Can anyone translate this for me?  My DUmbass to English dictionary is missing.

 :whatever:

What the **** are you talking about?  Has anything I have posted lead you to believe that making living cadavers has anything to do with a purposeful selection of killing an unborn child because of it's sex?

Pay attention, wilbur - "all human life".

In case it escaped you, the only distinction between "living cadavers", and you and me is brain function.  They are "human life" in every other sense of the word.  Yet they have far less rights than we do and we usually leave decisions regarding their medical future to spouses or other immediate family.  

You know - sort of like we leave the decision to abort to the would-be mothers.  

They are merely one example where, if we followed your principles at face value, we would be neck deep in total absurdity.   So you need to refine your principle in some sensible way.   And my suggestion is that you concede that it is minds, not mere life, that hold the real value.

I also presume that human life is not the only life to which you feel you have moral obligations or duties.  Certainly you feel you have some obligation to animal life as well.   Well, to whom and to what do you owe these moral duties and how do you determine it, if not by the existence of a conscious mind, pray tell?

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Funny, there have been societies that thought the same thing.  And when they figured out that human beings were nothing more than a species categorization instead of a moral boundary, they came to the conclusion that not all life was valuable.

Is any of this starting to sound familiar to what you are saying, wilbur?

No, it really isn't.  Maybe there have been societies which devalued human life.   I don't do that.  I articulate specifically what kind of beings have value and why.   None of those societies operated ont he principle that things with minds have value, now did they?   That is what I advocate here.

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The inevitable outcome ended up killing millions of less than valuable life.  That's quite a philosophy you're sporting, wilbur, and it's one that has played out before.

No, the inevitable outcome is that we appropriately recognize the value of minds.  Re-read that till you get it.

Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Karin on February 09, 2011, 03:57:17 PM
Thanks for your story, Ballygrl, thanks for the update, Ginabug, and especially Thanks to God for entering this woman's heart. 
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Gina on February 09, 2011, 04:03:57 PM
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Where's the compassion and dignity in the death wishes for the lady in this thread?

Are you serious? :mental:
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 09, 2011, 04:09:07 PM
Are you serious? :mental:

Uh, there was a poster fantasizing about this lady dying in a car crash on the way to get her abortion (and people carrying on as if this was perfectly reasonable), and I get the crazy emoticon pointed at me?  

<backs away slowly.....>
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Gina on February 09, 2011, 04:27:05 PM
Uh, there was a poster fantasizing about this lady dying in a car crash on the way to get her abortion (and people carrying on as if this was perfectly reasonable), and I get the crazy emoticon pointed at me?  

<backs away slowly.....>
Yep that was me.  And I still would wish for it.  YOU care for some bitch of a woman that would kill a child because of it's gender, not the child that is innocent in the whole thing. 

This is not something that with US vs YOU is going to change.  So I guess this is my last post on this subject.  Enjoy your time on Earth and try and thank God tonight that your mother didn't abort you. 
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: dandi on February 09, 2011, 04:29:42 PM
I'm always amazed at the speed with which so many pro-lifers start to view people with reasonable and respectful objections to their beliefs as inhuman ghouls.   A little ironic when you think about it.

There is nothing reasonable about what you have posted.  It has been the typical rationale of a leftist who is seeking to justify the killing of the unborn and whatever else they deem to be of no value.

It's been spewed by individuals like you ad nauseum.

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There are edge cases which you are failing to account for, such as human cadavers (brain dead people who are still "alive"), and other forms of life.  We need a framework for all of it.

That, wilbur, is usually covered by the wishes of the brain dead person prior to them being brain dead.  Medical directives and the like.

But we are talking about your support of women wanting to kill their unborn children for convenience.

Stay on target, wilbur.   

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In many cases we are - reality often doesnt offer us any choice in the matter.  So we have to come up with a useful framework with which to make the right decisions.

Sorry, wilbur, but I'm not playing along.  Many have gone before you, seeking to decide who lives and who dies, and all they need is a "useful framework".  There is nothing of intellect that you offer in this area; no more so than any other practitioner of eugenics.  It fails on the face of common human decency.

And that failure, wilbur, is what makes you a ghoul.

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In case it escaped you, the only distinction between "living cadavers", and you and me is brain function.  They are "human life" in every other sense of the word.  Yet they have far less rights than we do and we usually leave decisions regarding their medical future to spouses or other immediate family.

No, wilbur, it hasn't escaped me.  What you are talking about is higher brain function, not the function of the lower brain.

But, as it were, has nothing to do with a mother wanting to kill her unborn child for being a girl.

Stay on target, wilbur.  

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They are merely one example where, if we followed your principles at face value, we would be neck deep in total absurdity.   So you need to refine your principle in some sensible way.   And my suggestion is that you concede that it is minds, not mere life, that hold the real value.

Save your advice for someone who actually gives a **** what you think, wilbur.  You know damned good and well that yours is a way of death that, if implemented and handled by liberals, would lead to the next holocaust.  It's your line of thinking that exterminated entire villages throughout Europe.

At the very least, if you respected human life the way you claim, we wouldn't have women killing children for something as absurd as their sex.

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I also presume that human life is not the only life to which you feel you have moral obligations or duties.  Certainly you feel you have some obligation to animal life as well.   Well, to whom and to what do you owe these moral duties and how do you determine it, if not by the existence of a conscious mind, pray tell?

I don't play your games, wilbur.  I don't give enough of a damn about a pro-deather's point of view other than to expose them for the monsters that they are.

This is a discussion about your support for women to be able to kill their unborn children for whatever reason strikes their fancy. 

Try and stay on target, wilbur.

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Maybe there have been societies which devalued human life.

Maybe?  Are you serious?

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I articulate specifically what kind of beings have value and why.

So did Hitler, Mao, Saddam, and Stalin.

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None of those societies operated on the principle that things with minds have value, now did they?

No, wilbur, they operated on the principle that they held the choice of who and what had value.  They recognized that the things of no value had minds, that's one of the reasons they had to be destroyed.

The overriding philosophy was that they got to decide what life was of value and what life wasn't.  They regarded human beings as a "species categorization" and not a moral boundary.  Keep spinning it however you want, it still comes out the same.

History does not agree with your position, wilbur.


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No, the inevitable outcome is that we appropriately recognize the value of minds.  Re-read that till you get it.

No, wilbur, the inevitable outcome of people playing God is that they kill lots of people.  They justify it any way they can and they do it. 

History is full of it and it all starts with some pissant pseudo intellectual saying that some life is more valuable than other.

Frankly, wilbur, anyone who would support the killing of the unborn would support the eventual killing of anything.  Serial killers start with bugs and small animals, mass murderers start with women and children.

Re-read that, wilbur, until you can see your true self.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: JohnnyReb on February 09, 2011, 04:37:43 PM
"Honest judge, I didn't kill him. It was just a post birth abortion."

Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Eupher on February 09, 2011, 04:40:28 PM
Excellent points, wasp. h5
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Alpha Mare on February 09, 2011, 05:10:47 PM

My nephew was born at 25 weeks, 2 days; he weighed a whopping 1lb. 14 oz.  This was before neonatal ICU's  and I remember the doctor telling us his chances were slim and he'd always have 'problems' if he lived.  The nurses didn't take the hint.  The Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ get full credit for his survival (and a wee bit of Scottish stubbornness).
Today he's 6'5" and has never had any 'problems'.

(http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID4079/images/phpLqxRJyAM.jpg)
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 09, 2011, 05:15:53 PM
Stay on target, wilbur. 

First of all Wasp,  while I've registered my distaste for that woman's decision to abort based on gender at least 3 or 4 times in this thread, I've been by and large arguing about abortion in the general case (ie, my target) which includes women in just about every circumstance you can imagine.   If that hasn't caught on with you, I can only throw my hands up in exasperation at just how unaware you are of the nature of the conversation in which you are allegedly taking part.

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There is nothing reasonable about what you have posted.  It has been the typical rationale of a leftist...

It's been spewed by individuals like you ad nauseum.

...

Unfortunately, the rest of your post descends into memes about despotic regimes, playing god, and cliche liberal demonization.   It carries on as if my modus operandi is to devalue *all* forms of life, while asserting no other positive principle (that minds have value).    Needless to say, it still responds not at all to my actual position except to say "nuh uh".

And probably the silliest part is when you claim I am deciding who gets to live and who gets to die, and am playing God.    No, I no more "play God" than you do, when you espouse your principle "all human life has value".   Hate to break it to you, but that principle was also conjured up by man kind.  You arent God's voice or his messenger, you are just another person with another opinion.   One that I happen to think is inferior to mine.





Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Gina on February 09, 2011, 05:29:55 PM
My nephew was born at 25 weeks, 2 days; he weighed a whopping 1lb. 14 oz.  This was before neonatal ICU's  and I remember the doctor telling us his chances were slim and he'd always have 'problems' if he lived.  The nurses didn't take the hint.  The Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ get full credit for his survival (and a wee bit of Scottish stubbornness).
Today he's 6'5" and has never had any 'problems'.

(http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID4079/images/phpLqxRJyAM.jpg)

wow!! that is a miracle right there.  Just precious!!  my 1st son was born at 31 weeks and was huge compared to that little boy :o
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Evil_Conservative on February 09, 2011, 06:18:00 PM
Wilbur, let's say that was your wife.  She is pregnant with your baby.  She really really wanted a boy, because the two of you have two girls already.  When she finds out it's a girl and wants to abort the baby based on gender, would you support her decision?

Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Gina on February 09, 2011, 06:26:14 PM
Wilbur, let's say that was your wife.  She is pregnant with your baby.  She really really wanted a boy, because the two of you have two girls already.  When she finds out it's a girl and wants to abort the baby based on gender, would you support her decision?



he would support it because it's her right to choose to abort a living being, he just wouldn't agree with it

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When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.
When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Ballygrl on February 09, 2011, 06:31:17 PM
My nephew was born at 25 weeks, 2 days; he weighed a whopping 1lb. 14 oz.  This was before neonatal ICU's  and I remember the doctor telling us his chances were slim and he'd always have 'problems' if he lived.  The nurses didn't take the hint.  The Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ get full credit for his survival (and a wee bit of Scottish stubbornness).
Today he's 6'5" and has never had any 'problems'.

(http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID4079/images/phpLqxRJyAM.jpg)

That's awesome!
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: vesta111 on February 09, 2011, 06:58:19 PM
Wilbur, think about India for a moment here.

Woman in India have for years gotten abortions if the child she carried was female.  Before the sonograms when a female was born and not wanted they were killed at birth.  Today a woman can abort and become pregnant again in a short time wanting to have a male.

One of the problems in India today with the abortion of females is that now the men of marriage age have few woman to marry.  So they have to look outside their country and the Indians are upset over the dilution of their culture.

The country now has 5-6 men for every woman ---this is what abortion due to sex does.  It alters the scheme of things and causes disruption in the natural flow of life.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 09, 2011, 07:04:56 PM
Wilbur, think about India for a moment here.

Woman in India have for years gotten abortions if the child she carried was female.  Before the sonograms when a female was born and not wanted they were killed at birth.  Today a woman can abort and become pregnant again in a short time wanting to have a male.

One of the problems in India today with the abortion of females is that now the men of marriage age have few woman to marry.  So they have to look outside their country and the Indians are upset over the dilution of their culture.

The country now has 5-6 men for every woman ---this is what abortion due to sex does.  It alters the scheme of things and causes disruption in the natural flow of life.


Yea, that's one reason why I think we should, as a culture, promote an aversion to using abortion for gender preference.

But there is at least a little less of a need or want for male children today (in the US), since women have equal economic opportunities here.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 09, 2011, 07:06:18 PM
Wilbur, let's say that was your wife.  She is pregnant with your baby.  She really really wanted a boy, because the two of you have two girls already.  When she finds out it's a girl and wants to abort the baby based on gender, would you support her decision?

I don't think so.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Evil_Conservative on February 09, 2011, 07:42:36 PM
I don't think so.

You don't *THINK* so.

How sweet.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Airwolf on February 09, 2011, 07:42:49 PM
I'd like to apologize for telling rubliw to 'shut the **** up', that was rude.  But, you still make me sick.
Why? there is no medical reason for the abortion and since there is no need to have one to save the mother then there is nothing to discuss. Its murder ,that is all it is and will be. The apologist can go out in the front yard of Osama's place and jump on a land mine for all I care
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Splashdown on February 09, 2011, 07:49:41 PM
The 20th century was replete with liberals devaluing the human life of the victims of their philosophy. Abortion is just the latest in a long, long line of holocausts.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Ballygrl on February 09, 2011, 08:11:20 PM
You can't have it both ways, you can't say it's a life after a particular week and abortion shouldn't be allowed then turn around and say it can be allowed in this this and that week. It's really easy, either it's murder or it isn't, there's no in between, and if it's murder after say week 22 then it's murder after week 1.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: dandi on February 09, 2011, 08:39:29 PM
Excellent points, wasp. h5

Thanks, Euph.  Wouldn't a bitchslap be more appropriate?

 :-)
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: njpines on February 09, 2011, 08:51:29 PM
Excellent points, wasp. h5

Seconded -- h5 wasp!

(and a BS for Eupher just because . . .  :-))
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Habsfan on February 09, 2011, 09:25:05 PM
Too many people have a nonchalant attitude when it comes to abortion, it's just a bunch of cells, no it's not, it's a human life in the beginning stages, and you know what? if it's just a bunch of cells then there should be no reason at all that a woman, who should've used protection beforehand, shouldn't be shown exactly what she's aborting, and that includes watching an ultrasound of what she's doing away with, let her see her child struggling because he/she are in survival mode, pictures should be taken of her aborted child and given to the woman, and let's start calling it what it is, no more medical terms describing the procedure, I'm on the pro-life side so let's start calling the opposition pro-abortion or pro-death, because that's exactly what that view is. And let's start getting graphic here, you tell me these aren't babies:

http://www.100abortionpictures.com/Aborted_Baby_Pictures_Abortion_Photos/

Getting off my soapbox now, it's such an infuriating subject.


One of my nieces who I'm very close to told me she had an abortion (didn't tell me until after the fact) because they found out the baby at 4 months gestation had Downs Syndrome. I don't know how she can live with herself.... They now have 3 beautiful healthy children but "that one" was not wanted.  :bawl:
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Ballygrl on February 09, 2011, 09:48:58 PM
One of my nieces who I'm very close to told me she had an abortion (didn't tell me until after the fact) because they found out the baby at 4 months gestation had Downs Syndrome. I don't know how she can live with herself.... They now have 3 beautiful healthy children but "that one" was not wanted.  :bawl:

That Down Syndrome child had as much a right to life as everyone else. Does it ring a bell to anyone when some want to live in a perfect society?
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Habsfan on February 09, 2011, 10:09:59 PM
That Down Syndrome child had as much a right to life as everyone else. Does it ring a bell to anyone when some want to live in a perfect society?
The family are ultra-liberals. It's only a clump of cells, not human, etc. until it's out of the womb. I really don't know what their convoluted thinking is.

I was just thinking about their twisted reasoning: If a woman should die in her later stage of pregnancy; for example in the case of a violent death, it's recorded as two individuals having died (re: Scott Peterson case.) The baby was not born yet. Therefore not a human being if you want to think like a pro-choice fanatic. Why was there a murder charge against a fetus? They aren't protesting against this?
Who decides when it's a fetus that can just be discarded? Makes absolutely no sense.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: DefiantSix on February 09, 2011, 10:12:51 PM
That Down Syndrome child had as much a right to life as everyone else. Does it ring a bell to anyone when some want to live in a perfect society?

In my church we have what are called patriarchal blessings:  these aren't mandatory, but supposedly are the little words of counsel that Father in Heaven gave you before your spirit was sent down to Earth: it may address anything from your mission in life, things to watch out for; stuff to give the recipient a little insight into who he/she is (in Heavenly father's eyes) and what directions might hold the greatest blessings in store if they took them.

Story goes, that there was a boy who was born with Downs.  In spite of loving parents and friends, the boy felt trapped within his condition; a freak without a purpose.  His bishop suggested that he receive his patriarchal blessing.  After a little resistance, the young man agreed to do so.  Lo and behold, the stake patriarch who blessed him, revealed to him that at the time when Satan was expelled from God's presence, this young man was on one of his arms, escorting the Devil to the front gate.  The Downs Syndrome that he had looked upon for much of his life as a trap and a prison was in fact deliberately given to him as a shield and a protection; the boy had already demonstrated his valiance in heaven before he was born, and the Downs was there to prevent Satan from exacting his revenge upon one of Father in Heaven's children that he hated most of all, by causing him to lose his seat in heaven through sin.

Since hearing that story (and I am acquainted with the family to whom this young man is a part), I do not look at "Downs Babies" the same way.  I would imagine, neither will their mothers, when the veil of this world is lifted and they can see these children for the souls that they really are.

Just my $0.02.  Feel free to give change.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: FreeBorn on February 09, 2011, 10:16:02 PM
One of my nieces who I'm very close to told me she had an abortion (didn't tell me until after the fact) because they found out the baby at 4 months gestation had Downs Syndrome. I don't know how she can live with herself.... They now have 3 beautiful healthy children but "that one" was not wanted.  :bawl:
That's part of the reason the leftists hate Sarah Palin, that she is the proud and loving Mother of a child with downs syndrome. They can't stand that, the fact that it reveals those women who opt to kill such a child are failures as women and Sarah is the example of what what Motherhood is all about, loving your child unconditionally and always, always putting the child first.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 09, 2011, 10:53:23 PM
Why? there is no medical reason for the abortion and since there is no need to have one to save the mother then there is nothing to discuss. Its murder ,that is all it is and will be. The apologist can go out in the front yard of Osama's place and jump on a land mine for all I care

Between the fantasizing about women being killed in car crashes on the way to the abortion clinic and this... man, that's it.. I'm convinced.. you guys are real humanitarians.  What wonderful examples you set for us all!
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: BEG on February 09, 2011, 11:08:06 PM
Between the fantasizing about women being killed in car crashes on the way to the abortion clinic and this... man, that's it.. I'm convinced.. you guys are real humanitarians.  What wonderful examples you set for us all!

Do you have kids?
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: thundley4 on February 09, 2011, 11:25:00 PM
Between the fantasizing about women being killed in car crashes on the way to the abortion clinic and this... man, that's it.. I'm convinced.. you guys are real humanitarians.  What wonderful examples you set for us all!

Most of us think the death penalty for people that commit murder is a perfectly good sentence. If this woman had carried through with an abortion for the given reason, then she is no different than some guy who kills a someone while robbing them.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Gina on February 10, 2011, 12:13:05 AM
Between the fantasizing about women being killed in car crashes on the way to the abortion clinic and this... man, that's it.. I'm convinced.. you guys are real humanitarians.  What wonderful examples you set for us all!

Why are you even here?    Is this what you were looking to do when you came to the conservative cave?  This is not the place for you, really. We are awful people that don't think abortion is right.  We are not your kind and the only real reason I can see you sticking around here is that you just want to do the same ole con/lib fighting over the same ole subjects.   
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Eupher on February 10, 2011, 06:42:21 AM
Thanks, Euph.  Wouldn't a bitchslap be more appropriate?

 :-)


A bitchslap for me today will get you a h5 next Tuesday. (or maybe today if I can get to it.)  :-)
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Eupher on February 10, 2011, 06:45:51 AM
Between the fantasizing about women being killed in car crashes on the way to the abortion clinic and this... man, that's it.. I'm convinced.. you guys are real humanitarians.  What wonderful examples you set for us all!

Sarcasm duly noted.

Man, that's it...I'm convinced...you are a ghoul. What a terrible example you set for your children -- assuming you have them.

What size are your jackboots?
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Airwolf on February 10, 2011, 09:42:26 AM
I'm not here to be an example for anyone that's basically a laser guided retard. My post was a reply to Evil Conservative and her expression of a need to reply to some fool that thinks killing innocent babies is OK.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 10, 2011, 10:04:41 AM
Do you have kids?

Nope, I don't have any myself... now, I don't know how having a child would change my views on abortion or not, but I'm tempted to think not - since over half of all abortions are had by women who already have kids.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Evil_Conservative on February 10, 2011, 10:15:07 AM
Nope, I don't have any myself... now, I don't know how having a child would change my views on abortion or not, but I'm tempted to think not - since over half of all abortions are had by women who already have kids.

Can you back that up with proof?
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 10, 2011, 10:45:25 AM
Can you back that up with proof?

 
"Most women having abortions (61%) already had at least one child, including 34% who had
two or more children."

Pasted from: http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/US-Abortion-Patients.pdf

Now maybe you distrust guttmacher, since they are a pro-choice think tank - but they have more comprehensive stats than anybody, and I regularly see pro-life organizations rely on many of them.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: dandi on February 10, 2011, 11:11:51 AM
Nope, I don't have any myself...

That explains quite a bit, doesn't it?

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now, I don't know how having a child would change my views on abortion or not, but I'm tempted to think not

It would.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Gina on February 10, 2011, 11:35:45 AM
That explains quite a bit, doesn't it?

It would.


I agree, it would.   :cheersmate:
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 10, 2011, 12:07:09 PM
Well, again - pretty skeptical.  There are plenty of pro-choice parents.

If I ever have a child, my emotional reaction to it might be to think its the greatest thing ever, from the very beginning - even during the stages of development where I know it is mindless.   I would know, though, that such feelings are emotional reactions, not critical or rational assessments of the true nature of the developing being.   I would still know that others might have very different emotional reactions... reactions that could range from pure joy and happiness, to unbridled terror and distress.





Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: catsmtrods on February 10, 2011, 12:13:49 PM
WTF is this your one man crusade for abortion? You seem very passionate about the subject. Could it be a guilt trip? Maybe pushed a young girlfriend into having one cause you were to spineless to face you responsibilities?  :???:
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: dandi on February 10, 2011, 12:15:48 PM
WTF is this your one man crusade for abortion? You seem very passionate about the subject. Could it be a guilt trip? Maybe pushed a young girlfriend into having one cause you were to spineless to face you responsibilities?  :???:

More like someone who has drunk the liberal koolaid and hasn't been sobered up when staring at a life that he helped create.

IOW, young and ignorant...
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 10, 2011, 12:49:49 PM
WTF is this your one man crusade for abortion? You seem very passionate about the subject. Could it be a guilt trip? Maybe pushed a young girlfriend into having one cause you were to spineless to face you responsibilities?  :???:

No, I just like talking and thinking about the areas of philosophy that deal with life, rights, morality, religion, etc... abortion touches on all of them.

I was always extremely careful when it comes to pregnancy and std's.  So no, there's no guilt trip here.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: MrsSmith on February 10, 2011, 01:17:02 PM
The 20th century was replete with liberals devaluing the human life of the victims of their philosophy. Abortion is just the latest in a long, long line of holocausts.
Exactly.  There have always been humans that felt some other human wasn't "human enough" to be a real "person."  Whether the "rational" decision is made on race, religion, sex, development, location, or any other division of humanity, it's all the same thought process.  Abortion, slavery, holocaust...some humans just have to find some reason to proclaim that they are more human, smarter, more developed, more capable than some other portion of humanity and should therefore certainly have the right to use that portion of humanity as they choose.  

All through known history, there have been men that thought they were God, or were smarter than God.  Most have long learned the consequences of their pride and arrogance.  The rest...wil. (sic)
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Gina on February 10, 2011, 01:18:46 PM
No, I just like talking and thinking about the areas of philosophy that deal with life, rights, morality, religion, etc... abortion touches on all of them.

I was always extremely careful when it comes to pregnancy and std's.  So no, there's no guilt trip here.

We don't care about areas of philosophy.  We are talking about a beating heart.  Stopping a beating heart.  We are talking about a human.  You were once one weren't you?
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Airwolf on February 10, 2011, 02:21:41 PM
We don't care about areas of philosophy.  We are talking about a beating heart.  Stopping a beating heart.  We are talking about a human.  You were once one weren't you?

The question should be for him is this,

"Did your parents have any children that lived?"
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 10, 2011, 03:20:47 PM
We don't care about areas of philosophy.

You most certainly do.... any statement about value - whether you want to acknowledge it or not - is philosophical statement.

I by no means think the answer to the abortion question is obvious or undebatable or that my position is infallible, even though I've been strongly persuaded to call myself pro-choice.   I don't think otherwise well meaning people are ghouls for having different values which lead to different conclusions, even if I think those values are misguided.  

And furthermore, whether you like it or not, you are in a nation whose laws enshrine values that directly contradict your own.  You're in a nation where at least half the population stands in direct philosophical opposition to your values.. so you better care about the relevant areas of philosophy if you intend to actually claim that your position is justified.  And just as an aside, under such conditions, an appropriately cautious and humble person might just make a little room for the possibility that they are wrong on the issue, and not be so dogmatic and extremist as to wish death upon those who disagree.

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We are talking about a beating heart.  Stopping a beating heart.  We are talking about a human.

So you think beating hearts are valuable (guess what... that's philosophy).  I don't particularly care about them.  I'm open to being convinced, but as I see it right now, hearts are just muscles.  And muscles by themselves have no real morally significant qualities.   I'd also argue that you don't really  care all that much about them either, since newly conceived eggs don't have beating hearts... yet you want to protect them too no?

I don't particularly care about whether something is human or not.   Living cadavers are human, the skin cells we are constantly shedding are human... the spit deposited on the dugout floor by a baseball player is human... heck, dead cadavers are human.   The boundaries of my moral sphere do not start or end with things human...

The boundaries start and end with minds. At the moment, I see no good reason why I should care so much about things that do not have them.  Now, eventually, a developing baby WILL have a mind, and there is definitely something to be said for that.  I think we should value that potential.  But in my opinion - the woman's rights and wishes is what really matters the most.

Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: MrsSmith on February 10, 2011, 03:38:33 PM
http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2011/02/chad_cole_says_tonight_he_will.html

Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Evil_Conservative on February 10, 2011, 04:46:28 PM
http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2011/02/chad_cole_says_tonight_he_will.html



:bawl:
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Gina on February 11, 2011, 11:08:42 AM
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Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: dandi on February 11, 2011, 02:15:12 PM
Quote from: wilbur
Not all life has value, just some of it.  So we have to ask why life has value.
   
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,55189.msg627443.html#msg627443

Quote from: wilbur
So you think beating hearts are valuable (guess what... that's philosophy).  I don't particularly care about them.  I'm open to being convinced, but as I see it right now, hearts are just muscles.  And muscles by themselves have no real morally significant qualities.

The boundaries of my moral sphere do not start or end with things human...

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,55189.msg628260.html#msg628260

Quote from: wilbur
We need a framework for all of it.

So we have to come up with a useful framework with which to make the right decisions. 

Maybe there have been societies which devalued human life.

I articulate specifically what kind of beings have value and why.

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,55189.msg627644.html#msg627644

Quote from: wilbur
In the end, the term "human" is just a species categorization, not a moral boundary - and using it as such is arbitrary and ultimately unsupportable.  We could have carved up and named the natural world in a number of ways - we might have decided to call zygotes something other than human.  We might have decided to call children under the age of 5 something other than human.     Would your moral regard then have to be carved up similarly?   Of course not, but ultimately that's what results from defining your moral sphere by the category "human".

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,55189.msg627524.html#msg627524

If there is ever a doubt in your mind as to why I believe you to be a ghoul and tacit supporter of eugenics, you need look no further than your own words.

No matter how you may try and couch it, wilbur, it comes out the same way - death to those "things" that are less valuable.  It starts with placing a value or non-value on life while discounting DNA and heartbeats as "philosophy", and ends up being the foundation to place value or non-value on things with "minds".  It is thinking like yours that have brought suffering and misery to human kind for centuries and the killing of the unborn is no different a starting place than any other.

But, since you have missed the obvious in my posts, I will gladly spell it out for you.

In the late 19th century, there was a pseudo-intellectual by the name of Houston Stewart Chamberlain that wrote a book on the Aryan Race being in competition with the Jewish Race for world domination; a book called Foundations of the 19th Century.  This fed the Volkisch movement in Germany.  Incidentally, it made the false distinction of "Jew" being a race instead of a religion; a distinction that liberals and jihadis make to this day.  It was the closest thing to a "species categorization" as one could get, wilbur.

In other words, wilbur, Chamberlain (whose book "electrified" Alfred Rosenberg from the minute he picked it up) came up with "a useful framework with which to make the right decisions". 

This "philosophy" led to Germans such as Heinrich Class to declare that German Jews should be stripped of their citizenship, forbidden to own land, hold public office, etc. and be rendered "Fremdenrecht".   And, based upon the "philosophy" as espoused by Chamberlain, Class defined "Jew" as anyone whose parents or grand parents (regardless of religion) were "Jew" in 1871 which coincides with the start date of the second German "Reich".  Class was no irrelevant blowhard, wilbur, he was the president of the Pan-German League and a sitting NSDAP member in the Reichstag.  To say he was an influence would be a gross understatement.

A "useful framework" and not all life having value ("just some of it") led to a justification of the massacre of millions

To puke up a statement such as  "Maybe there have been societies which devalued human life" is both stupid and willfully ignorant.  It's a disregard for history just as much as it is a justification for your silent assent of the killing of unborn children; and they are unborn children, wilbur, no matter how much you try and spin it otherwise. 

Liberals are total failures as students of history, wilbur, and you are no exception.

Quote from: wilbur
You arent God's voice or his messenger, you are just another person with another opinion.   One that I happen to think is inferior to mine.

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,55189.msg627712.html#msg627712

No mention of "God" or any type of theology was mentioned by me, wilbur.  I never claimed to be "God's voice or his messenger" and I did that on purpose.  I wanted to see if your liberal reflex would kick in and you didn't disappoint.  I took my position from a standpoint of common sense and human decency, a standpoint rooted in technology and reality.  Unborn children will attempt to escape/defend themselves in the womb if they are threatened, wilbur; sonograms of abortions will tell you that.

Your opinion, wilbur, does not survive first contact with human decency or reality.  Like most opinions of pseudo intellectual liberals, it only shows your disdain and contempt for anyone who does not think like you; for them to be "inferior".  Which is, BTW, another "useful framework" for not all life having value, "just some of it".
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Alpha Mare on February 11, 2011, 02:48:59 PM
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Posted by: rubliw
 But in my opinion - the woman's rights and wishes is what really matters the most.

Yet you don't extend any rights to the father. His rights and wishes are nonexistant.  He wants the baby but she doesn't- tough shit bub.  She wants baby but he doesn't- tough shit, pay up.
It's her body, but it's not just her baby.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Splashdown on February 11, 2011, 05:03:09 PM
I'm always amazed at the logical gymnastics pro-abortion people use to "prove" to themselves that the child in the womb a. isn't a child, and 2., doesnt' deserve protection.

Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Boudicca on February 11, 2011, 07:26:16 PM
http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2011/02/chad_cole_says_tonight_he_will.html



Only someone without a heart could read a story like that without tears.
I hope some day this poor man can find new love and have another child.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Habsfan on February 11, 2011, 08:05:39 PM
Only someone without a heart could read a story like that without tears.
I hope some day this poor man can find new love and have another child.
Children are such a blessing. I can't imagine my life now without my son.

Where would I be? If had made choices (yes, I hate my ex) my son would not have been born, and the tought of his not existing is unthinkable.

I can't imagine life witout my son, but I wish I had never met my ex because he ruined my life.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Airwolf on February 11, 2011, 10:20:08 PM
Children are such a blessing. I can't imagine my life now without my son.

Where would I be? If had made choices (yes, I hate my ex) my son would not have been born, and the tought of his not existing is unthinkable.

I can't imagine life witout my son, but I wish I had never met my ex because he ruined my life.

I can say the same about my now 16 year old Daughter.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 11, 2011, 10:22:33 PM
If there is ever a doubt in your mind as to why I believe you to be a ghoul and tacit supporter of eugenics, you need look no further than your own words.


Eugenics?  Are you serious?!?  

This is what eugenics is:  "Eugenics is the "applied science or the bio-social movement which advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a population," usually referring to human populations".  In other words, eugenics usually involve controlled breeding for the purposes of engineering the human species (or other living things).    

Now, I don't know how on earth you've managed to so perversely mangle my words in your head, but I have never EVER veered anywhere close to eugenics in any way shape or form.    My principle, as I've articulated in this thread  (time and time again),  the principle from which my beliefs about abortion stems,  is the conviction that the moral realm consists of things with minds, and that things without minds are excluded from the moral realm.  

Engineering the genetics of the human population and/or controlled breeding something else entirely.  ENTIRELY.  

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No matter how you may try and couch it, wilbur, it comes out the same way - death to those "things" that are less valuable.  

No, that's your own particular perversion of my words (an offensive, condemnable, deplorable perversion at that).  My actual words however, you have all but ignored or pretended that I don't really mean them so you can just continue to claim that I want to kill babies "for convenience", or am in a "death cult".

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It starts with placing a value or non-value on life while discounting DNA and heartbeats as "philosophy", and ends up being the foundation to place value or non-value on things with "minds".  It is thinking like yours that have brought suffering and misery to human kind for centuries and the killing of the unborn is no different a starting place than any other.

So your argument is that this principle ("things with minds have value")  is the foundation for devaluing things with minds?   Well, I gotta tell you, that doesnt make any sense at all.   So long as one sticks to that principle, it will be impossible to devalue a mindful creature, plain and simple.   That's the damn point.

On the other hand, I'd argue that its thinking like yours that harms mindful things unnecessarily.  It inevitably leads to some people being subservient to mindless beings.  In the case of an unwanted pregnancy, a conflict arises between a woman (a being with a mind) and a mindless being (the pre-sentient fetus).   Since you don't care about the mind, and place all the emphasis on ultimately morally insignificant things like heartbeats, or DNA you end up infringing upon the rights and autonomy of real beings, beings who have minds.   This does seem to lead many people to bad places... they demonize and dehumanize those who think differently...  the evidence right here in this thread.

It was the pro-lifers in this thread who were shouting the cries of bloodlust here.    Its the pro-lifers who, on the drop of a hat, are ready completely villify any woman who is considering an abortion - knowing nothing of her circumstances they already know she is depraved or irresponsible or selfish to the extreme.    

While on some level I can respect the point of view and the passion many feel about this topic, but enough is enough.   The crazy has got to stop.

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But, since you have missed the obvious in my posts, I will gladly spell it out for you.
ctual by the name of Houston Stewart Chamberlain that wrote a book on the Aryan Race being in competition with the Jewish Race for world domination; a book called Foundations of the 19th Century.  This fed the Volkisch movement in Germany.  Incidentally, it made the false distinction of "Jew" being a race instead of a religion; a distinction that liberals and jihadis make to this day.  It was the closest thing to a "species categorization" as one could get, wilbur.

Remember how I quite tacitly said that species categorization is NOT a good delimiter for the moral realm!?!  Its a naming convention for scientists - that's it.   I said that.   In relation to Chamberlain, that belief can place me in no other category than that of his ideological foes.... not as a sympathizer, for God's sake.

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In other words, wilbur, Chamberlain (whose book "electrified" Alfred Rosenberg from the minute he picked it up) came up with "a useful framework with which to make the right decisions".  

Nazi's ate apples.  I eat apples too.  Oh shit, I must be like a Nazi!

All kidding aside, you do realize that your own conviction - "all life has value" - is the same thing -  "a useful framework, with which to make the right decisions"??!?  (or, at least you presumably think its useful).   You get that right?  Right?!  

Well damn, I guess that makes you a holocaust loving Nazi too.  

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To puke up a statement such as  "Maybe there have been societies which devalued human life" is both stupid and willfully ignorant.  It's a disregard for history just as much as it is a justification for your silent assent of the killing of unborn children; and they are unborn chilhtdren, wilbur, no matter how much you try and spin it otherwise.  

Liberals are total failures as students of history, wilbur, and you are no exception.

It might have occurred to a reasonable person, that the intended meaning of that statement wasn't to call into question whether societies which valued human life very little or not at all actually existed.    Give me a break, man.... I shouldn't even have to explain this.   The "maybe" was the sort of maybe in a "maybe, ......, but ...." clause.    Like  a "Maybe X is true, but it still doesnt affect Y" sort  of thing.  I may have omitted the "but" portion, but that was how it read in my head - and really its pretty insulting  (though not that you care obviously) for you to even suggest that I would claim that every country in the history of the world valued human life to a high degree.  

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No mention of "God" or any type of theology was mentioned by me, wilbur.  I never claimed to be "God's voice or his messenger" and I did that on purpose.  I wanted to see if your liberal reflex would kick in and you didn't disappoint.  I took my position from a standpoint of common sense and human decency, a standpoint rooted in technology and reality.  Unborn children will attempt to escape/defend themselves in the womb if they are threatened, wilbur; sonograms of abortions will tell you that.

You did mention God.  You claimed I was playing God, when you said:  "No, wilbur, the inevitable outcome of people playing God is that they kill lots of people.  They justify it any way they can and they do it."   My point was not to lecture you about theology - it was to drive home the point that your own principle is no different in that regard.  Your principle has no special authority, nor does it reside in some sanctified place of perfection and flawlessness, impervious to all criticism and hidden from the possibility of being wrong.  If I am playing God, then similarly you are playing God.  Get it?

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Your opinion, wilbur, does not survive first contact with human decency or reality.  Like most opinions of pseudo intellectual liberals, it only shows your disdain and contempt for anyone who does not think like you; for them to be "inferior".  Which is, BTW, another "useful framework" for not all life having value, "just some of it".

So far, you haven't even addressed my actual opinion.  You've still so far, managed to avoid ever dealing my actual beliefs, and have instead so far opted to go on about Eugenics and Nazis - things which have no relevant connection to my core principle.
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Post by: Alpha Mare on February 12, 2011, 12:04:02 AM
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 Its the pro-lifers who, on the drop of a hat, are ready completely villify any woman who is considering an abortion - knowing nothing of her circumstances they already know she is depraved or irresponsible or selfish to the extreme.   

98% of women considering abortion are responsible for their circumstances. 
Only 2% of abortions are obtained for rape, incest or health issues.
The #1 reason given for having an abortion is "personal choice- not ready for responsibility". 

Would you be willing to ban all non-rape/health related abortions?
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Post by: Habsfan on February 12, 2011, 12:34:30 AM
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Post by: BEG on February 12, 2011, 12:52:48 AM
Nope, I don't have any myself... now, I don't know how having a child would change my views on abortion or not, but I'm tempted to think not - since over half of all abortions are had by women who already have kids.

The reason I asked was because once I was pregnant I immediately felt protective of my clump of cells. There may be hope for you yet.
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Post by: Eupher on February 12, 2011, 06:20:00 AM
The reason I asked was because once I was pregnant I immediately felt protective of my clump of cells. There may be hope for you yet.

I don't think so, BEG. wilbur is still trying to paint himself as a sensitive, realistic person who is repulsed by any mention of the word "Nazi."

He still calls fetuses "mindless things" and he deplores women like you who feel protective of your fetus.

Heartbeats are "morally insignificant" and when you actually concern yourself with your fetus' heartbeat, you are doing yourself a disservice.

That is wilbur. He is resolute. He is certain of himself.

Yet wilbur has no children of his own. Therefore, he doesn't know what the **** he's talking about. Again.  :whatever:
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Post by: MrsSmith on February 12, 2011, 06:31:44 AM
Eugenics usually is accomplished by taking a segment of humanity out of the breeding population.  The simplest way to do this is to make abortion easily available...in minority neighborhoods, where most clinics are located.  The US eugenics program is running strong, destroying a higher percentage of black infants than any other race, exactly as Margaret Sanger wanted.  The only way they could make it more obvious is by deliberately damaging a higher percentage of women to reduce their ability to have a child later.

I've seen arguments from wil that would actually make Artificial Intelligence of more actual value than a human infant. Yep, wil, with all his high philosophy, has argued that AI should be granted the status of "person" that he denies to all humans younger than his chosen point of development.  Somehow, it's more rational to see the value of a box of electronics than the value of a developing child...but that somehow doesn't equate with the exact same thought patterns used by the Nazi government and every other instigator of widespread human death.  (35,000,000 since Roe v Wade make that the highest number of human deaths on record)

But not to worry, they aren't really "people," they're just human offspring, not worth any rights, right, wil?
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Post by: rubliw on February 12, 2011, 07:27:03 AM
Eugenics usually is accomplished by taking a segment of humanity out of the breeding population.  The simplest way to do this is to make abortion easily available...in minority neighborhoods, where most clinics are located.  The US eugenics program is running strong, destroying a higher percentage of black infants than any other race, exactly as Margaret Sanger wanted.  The only way they could make it more obvious is by deliberately damaging a higher percentage of women to reduce their ability to have a child later.

I've seen arguments from wil that would actually make Artificial Intelligence of more actual value than a human infant. Yep, wil, with all his high philosophy, has argued that AI should be granted the status of "person" that he denies to all humans younger than his chosen point of development.  Somehow, it's more rational to see the value of a box of electronics than the value of a developing child...but that somehow doesn't equate with the exact same thought patterns used by the Nazi government and every other instigator of widespread human death.  (35,000,000 since Roe v Wade make that the highest number of human deaths on record)

For ****s sake, you guys and the Nazi's... sheesh.  And again, eugenics programs are top down, tyrannical controlled breeding programs with the aim of artificially engineering humanity.   Abortions are elective, and left to the individual choices of women - so that they may do what they feel is best in their own particular circumstances.... its not about changing the composition of the human race, period.   And as for the historical figures wanted to use abortion AS a tool for eugenics, well, I'm not aligned with them anymore than you are aligned with Christians who execute witches.  Their views are completely contrary to my core principle here, which requires that you respect the autonomy and rights of beings with minds.  You guys can't just take every single philosophy you disagree with and equate it with Nazism and eugenics... seriously.  

Now on AI - yes, if we designed artificial minds, with real genuine thought, feelings etc, they would most certainly be included within my moral realm.  I think it be rather monstrous if they weren't, don't you? They might be electronic, they might be biological - who knows - but whatever medium their minds "run on", isnt important - they'd be in my moral sphere, just like you, myself, and yes - even babies with minds.    That's one of the strengths of my principle, not a weakness, and a potential weakness in your own.

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Post by: rubliw on February 12, 2011, 08:11:23 AM
98% of women considering abortion are responsible for their circumstances. 
Only 2% of abortions are obtained for rape, incest or health issues.
The #1 reason given for having an abortion is "personal choice- not ready for responsibility". 

Would you be willing to ban all non-rape/health related abortions?


No, of course not.   I don't think we have any interest in forcing women, against their will, to submit to the rights of a mindless being... why would we? Simply to teach them a lesson? Simply to make sure that they have to experience every single potential life-altering consequence for what may have otherwise been a trivial slip up?   


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Post by: Gina on February 12, 2011, 08:19:19 AM
As my daddy has always said "You play, you must pay".  There is untold emotional trauma on women that have abortions.  They go  in there thinking it's  an easy solution to their "trivial slipup" only to find out they feel empty and so guilty afterwards.  It's a burden they will never lose or forget.
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Post by: MrsSmith on February 12, 2011, 08:37:38 AM
For ****s sake, you guys and the Nazi's... sheesh.  And again, eugenics programs are top down, tyrannical controlled breeding programs with the aim of artificially engineering humanity.   Abortions are elective, and left to the individual choices of women - so that they may do what they feel is best in their own particular circumstances.... its not about changing the composition of the human race, period.   And as for the historical figures wanted to use abortion AS a tool for eugenics, well, I'm not aligned with them anymore than you are aligned with Christians who execute witches.  Their views are completely contrary to my core principle here, which requires that you respect the autonomy and rights of beings with minds.  You guys can't just take every single philosophy you disagree with and equate it with Nazism and eugenics... seriously.  

Now on AI - yes, if we designed artificial minds, with real genuine thought, feelings etc, they would most certainly be included within my moral realm.  I think it be rather monstrous if they weren't, don't you? They might be electronic, they might be biological - who knows - but whatever medium their minds "run on", isnt important - they'd be in my moral sphere, just like you, myself, and yes - even babies with minds.    That's one of the strengths of my principle, not a weakness, and a potential weakness in your own.


Strengths?  Oh, yeah, wonderful "strength."  Some box of electronics, because it can **gasp** think!!!!! should obviously have the status of person in your eyes, but not the human child that is days away from having that "mind" you worship.  You and your sick little "god" of thought.  "I think, therefore I'm more worthy than other humans!!!!"  And yes, that is exactly the thought process of Nazism.  Exactly.  The opinion or philosophy or rational thought that leads you to really, truly believe you have some right to exist that some other segment of humanity does not possess.  The right to life was given to humans based on their humanity, not their oh-so-wonderful ability to think precisely because so many use that ability the way you use it.  You can spend your entire life really believing you are God, but your own pride and arrogance do you no favors.
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Post by: docstew on February 12, 2011, 08:46:50 AM
For ****s sake, you guys and the Nazi's... sheesh.  And again, eugenics programs are top down, tyrannical controlled breeding programs with the aim of artificially engineering humanity.   Abortions are elective, and left to the individual choices of women - so that they may do what they feel is best in their own particular circumstances.... its not about changing the composition of the human race, period.   And as for the historical figures wanted to use abortion AS a tool for eugenics, well, I'm not aligned with them anymore than you are aligned with Christians who execute witches.  Their views are completely contrary to my core principle here, which requires that you respect the autonomy and rights of beings with minds.  You guys can't just take every single philosophy you disagree with and equate it with Nazism and eugenics... seriously.  

Now on AI - yes, if we designed artificial minds, with real genuine thought, feelings etc, they would most certainly be included within my moral realm.  I think it be rather monstrous if they weren't, don't you? They might be electronic, they might be biological - who knows - but whatever medium their minds "run on", isnt important - they'd be in my moral sphere, just like you, myself, and yes - even babies with minds.    That's one of the strengths of my principle, not a weakness, and a potential weakness in your own.



You, wilbur, just don't get it. We keep "going back to the Nazis" because they too felt that there was a definable population amongst them who were "less than human", and enacted programs to reduce that population. It wasn't solely along lines of religion (Jew v. Christian), it also included homosexuality, political philosophy (Communists), mental/physical handicap, etc. The Nazi party, as a movement, decided that certain people weren't worth keeping.

You, wilbur, are stating the same position: that a certain, definable segment (that segment being fetuses of under 23 weeks gestation) of our population is not worth keeping. You define that segment as "mindless beings" and state that they have "no value".

I concede that you have defined your "less than human" population differently than the Nazis defined theirs, but other than that stipulation, what is the difference in philosophy? Where would you be willing to shift your definition to, and under what circumstances? And by what right do you decide what group does or doesn't deserve an opportunity to live?

And your argument about eugenics being a "top-down" program couldn't be farther from the truth. Eugenics is simply the philosophy that some traits, designated by man, are more desirable to keep and pass on than others. These traits could be positive values such as intelligence, honesty, or even strength, or they could be negative, discriminatory, values to attempt to "breed out", such as criminality, race, etc. The part of eugenics that disgusts civilized people is that man, not God, define what is "right and proper", which is not the way it should be.

ETA: MrsSmith, you beat me to it.
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Post by: rubliw on February 12, 2011, 09:22:45 AM
As my daddy has always said "You play, you must pay".  There is untold emotional trauma on women that have abortions.  They go  in there thinking it's  an easy solution to their "trivial slipup" only to find out they feel empty and so guilty afterwards.  It's a burden they will never lose or forget.

Despite lots of research, this has never been demonstrated.  If it had, it might be a good reason to outlaw, or otherwise restrict abortions more tightly.

There is a correlation, in some studies, between poor mental health and abortion.  But correlation is not causation.  Women who find themselves considering abortion, are more often situated in the type of environments and life circumstances where they are at risk for mental health issues.  Or women with mental health issues are more likely to find themselves in situations where they feel the need to abort. In poverty, in destructive relationships, or no relationships at all, single parent families, etc.

Other studies have controlled for those sorts of factors and seen the correlation disappear - in other words, they show there is little difference between the mental health of women who carry to term, and women who abort
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Post by: catsmtrods on February 12, 2011, 11:31:12 AM
Despite lots of research, this has never been demonstrated.  If it had, it might be a good reason to outlaw, or otherwise restrict abortions more tightly.

There is a correlation, in some studies, between poor mental health and abortion.  But correlation is not causation.  Women who find themselves considering abortion, are more often situated in the type of environments and life circumstances where they are at risk for mental health issues.  Or women with mental health issues are more likely to find themselves in situations where they feel the need to abort. In poverty, in destructive relationships, or no relationships at all, single parent families, etc.

Other studies have controlled for those sorts of factors and seen the correlation disappear - in other words, they show there is little difference between the mental health of women who carry to term, and women who abort

Ok, so you must be an abortion doctor? But you look like a caveman?
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: MrsSmith on February 12, 2011, 01:11:21 PM
Despite lots of research, this has never been demonstrated.  If it had, it might be a good reason to outlaw, or otherwise restrict abortions more tightly.

There is a correlation, in some studies, between poor mental health and abortion.  But correlation is not causation.  Women who find themselves considering abortion, are more often situated in the type of environments and life circumstances where they are at risk for mental health issues.  Or women with mental health issues are more likely to find themselves in situations where they feel the need to abort. In poverty, in destructive relationships, or no relationships at all, single parent families, etc.

Other studies have controlled for those sorts of factors and seen the correlation disappear - in other words, they show there is little difference between the mental health of women who carry to term, and women who abort
Studies that measure when women seek help don't see any connection.  Studies that compare long-term mental health problems do find a link.  You can argue about causation, but the women themselves blame the grief and guilt from killing their children.  The majority of humans really don't have your problem with a failure to recognize humans as humans, or with the overwhelming arrogance to really feel they are more worthy of life than "lesser" humans.
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Post by: BEG on February 12, 2011, 05:04:50 PM
For ****s sake, you guys and the Nazi's... sheesh.  And again, eugenics programs are top down, tyrannical controlled breeding programs with the aim of artificially engineering humanity.   Abortions are elective, and left to the individual choices of women - so that they may do what they feel is best in their own particular circumstances.... its not about changing the composition of the human race, period.   And as for the historical figures wanted to use abortion AS a tool for eugenics, well, I'm not aligned with them anymore than you are aligned with Christians who execute witches.  Their views are completely contrary to my core principle here, which requires that you respect the autonomy and rights of beings with minds.  You guys can't just take every single philosophy you disagree with and equate it with Nazism and eugenics... seriously.  

Now on AI - yes, if we designed artificial minds, with real genuine thought, feelings etc, they would most certainly be included within my moral realm.  I think it be rather monstrous if they weren't, don't you? They might be electronic, they might be biological - who knows - but whatever medium their minds "run on", isnt important - they'd be in my moral sphere, just like you, myself, and yes - even babies with minds.    That's one of the strengths of my principle, not a weakness, and a potential weakness in your own.



Confess, this is really you....

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Post by: thundley4 on February 12, 2011, 05:24:18 PM
Confess, this is really you....

(http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxdpztnHc81qaykf7o1_500.jpg)



I don't know whether to  :rotf: or :puke: , but  :hi5: for that one.
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Post by: Splashdown on February 12, 2011, 05:25:05 PM
But, see, at its most basic, abortion IS about changing the composition of the human race. Look up the roots of Planned Parenthood some day. Look at the rates of abortion in the African American community versus society at large.
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Post by: Gina on February 12, 2011, 05:25:53 PM
Confess, this is really you....

(http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxdpztnHc81qaykf7o1_500.jpg)


is one boob bigger than the other?
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Airwolf on February 12, 2011, 05:40:03 PM
Why is this anti human POS still posting ?
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Gina on February 12, 2011, 05:41:25 PM
Why is this anti human POS still posting ?

batteries haven't run out yet
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: BEG on February 12, 2011, 05:43:03 PM
is one boob bigger than the other?

If it is then he had her "made" that way.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Alpha Mare on February 12, 2011, 07:05:43 PM
No, of course not.   I don't think we have any interest in forcing women, against their will, to submit to the rights of a mindless being... why would we? Simply to teach them a lesson? Simply to make sure that they have to experience every single potential life-altering consequence for what may have otherwise been a trivial slip up?   

"Forcing women...to submit..."   Talk about a 'mindless being'.

That's a lame-ass dodge and you know it. Tell us, who forced her to submit to the act that produced said 'trivial slip up'?
There's only one method of birth control that's 100% effective- and it ain't "hope".
A fetus can feel pain at 8 weeks.  Do you drown  unwanted kittens and puppies too?

Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Airwolf on February 13, 2011, 02:35:29 AM
batteries haven't run out yet

Interesting that one idiot with a smart phone can even believe the shit he is posting on here. I have heard from time to time that with enough excuses or reasons a person could justify anything ,even murder and our new found jackbooted thug of a poster seems to prove that quite well. I on the other hand cannot fathom how or why anyone could or would do such a thing even when history is replete with examples. The fact that any person can justify the murder of any child regardless of what state its in is horrible. Every human has the right to live no matter how long it takes to reach the end.

Its even more insane that these same self proclaimed promoters of the right to an abortion would sooner save baby seals then a child. They have no moral direction suitable for anyone to be called human. It's been said that if we as a race had taken the deaths of one person as serious as we do the deaths of millions,our history on this planet might have been alot less bloody and I cannot find any argument with that .
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 14, 2011, 10:54:44 AM
You, wilbur, just don't get it. We keep "going back to the Nazis" because they too felt that there was a definable population amongst them who were "less than human", and enacted programs to reduce that population. It wasn't solely along lines of religion (Jew v. Christian), it also included homosexuality, political philosophy (Communists), mental/physical handicap, etc. The Nazi party, as a movement, decided that certain people weren't worth keeping.

Oh I do get it - but I believe you are entirely wrong, and your continual comparison to the holocaust is without merrit and based on willful misunderstandings of my position.

First, I my principle doesn't define a population as "less than human" so again, your criticisms are  aimed at the wrong target.   I fully agree that fetuses, embryos and zygotes are human.   So are corpses, and flaked off skin cells.    But the term human is designated to all these things in a scientifically useful way, not a morally useful way.  

In fact, it is your principle which hinges on the pure semantics of how this amoral "human" designation was coined - and is therefore explicitly tied to what ever direction it may potentially shift.   If your principle is "all human life" is valuable, then it is actually YOUR view which is vulnerable to redefinitions of the term "human", It might even be your view that could be said to have enabled the holocaust.... since as you say, the Nazi's were able to successfully categorize the Jews as "less than human".

Just as an aside, I don't know if you are Christian or not, but in fact, the majority of the German population was.  Most were Lutheran.  And Christians certainly tend to agree with the principle you are defending.   Unfortunately, the Christian German population was teeming with good ole' anit-semitism inherited from that German guy, Martin Luther.   Martin Luther pretty much wrote the guide book for the holocaust - The Jews and Their Lies.  This was a major piece of the groundwork that enabled the systematic demonization of Jewish people in Germany.  And yea, we all know there were also great Christian who didn't get taken in by any of that, and helped the Jews escape the gas chambers at great risk to themselves.  But one can't deny the irony here..  you bring up the holocaust time and time again, but it was really your own principle about human life which utterly failed the Jews - not one similar to mine.

Now my principle may hinge on the definition of "mind".  But I feel that "mind" is less vulnerable to redefinition and I think it really maps to the significant facts about our nature that place us in the moral realm (and other living things as well) far better than the term "human'.  

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You, wilbur, are stating the same position: that a certain, definable segment (that segment being fetuses of under 23 weeks gestation) of our population is not worth keeping. You define that segment as "mindless beings" and state that they have "no value".

I concede that you have defined your "less than human" population differently than the Nazis defined theirs, but other than that stipulation, what is the difference in philosophy? Where would you be willing to shift your definition to, and under what circumstances? And by what right do you decide what group does or doesn't deserve an opportunity to live?

Again, "less than human" is not accurate.   There are humans in relation to which we have certain moral obligations, and there are humans to which we differing moral obligations.    And everybody agrees to this, even you.   Its completely uncontroversial.   If an innocent person is about to be executed, you might feel you have a moral obligation to fight for him.   If a serial killer is about to be executed, you might feel like you have a moral duty to allow the execution to be carried out.   And I argue, that in the case of mindless humans (or mindless organisms, period) we have little or no moral obligations.

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And your argument about eugenics being a "top-down" program couldn't be farther from the truth. Eugenics is simply the philosophy that some traits, designated by man, are more desirable to keep and pass on than others. These traits could be positive values such as intelligence, honesty, or even strength, or they could be negative, discriminatory, values to attempt to "breed out", such as criminality, race, etc. The part of eugenics that disgusts civilized people is that man, not God, define what is "right and proper", which is not the way it should be.

If Eugenics is simply the philosophy that some traits as designated by man, are more desirable then others, then everyone is a eugenicist.    If looks or any inheritable trait had anything to do at all with why you chose your mate, then you are practicing eugenics according to your definition.     In fact, your definition of eugenics is so broad as to prohibit any and all potential cures to genetic disorders, that operates at the level of the genes.   If we produce a cure for cystic fibrosis through gene therapy - nope, can't do it - that's eugenics, and eugenics is evil, right - because cystic fibrosis is obviously what's "right and proper" according to God's standards, which we should not alter.

But I think we all agree, that say, to alter a baby's genes to cure its cystic fibrosis isnt wrong at all.    Right?  

Eugenics wasn't evil in times past just because it attempted alter our gene pool - it was evil because it did so through attempts to cull the population, through barbaric and totalitarian means that violated the natural rights and freedoms of those to whom we do have moral obligations (not to mention the flawed scientific assumptions they were working from).

We might one day actually see a friend(lier) eugenics resurface, if we ever do see the day where gene therapy can successfully alter our genetic make-up (inside the womb or out).   But in that case, eugenics will most likely be driven by consumer demand, not totalitarian decision making about the genetic future of the human race.    It will of course start with the demand for cures to genetic diseases - and then who knows where it might lead.... people of greater intelligence, rationality, or physical health, etc.  Maybe someplace good, maybe someplace bad.
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Post by: rubliw on February 14, 2011, 01:23:51 PM
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Studies that measure when women seek help don't see any connection.  Studies that compare long-term mental health problems do find a link.  You can argue about causation, but the women themselves blame the grief and guilt from killing their children.  The majority of humans really don't have your problem with a failure to recognize humans as humans, or with the overwhelming arrogance to really feel they are more worthy of life than "lesser" humans.

No, studies have found that pretty much across the board, when controlling for things like whether pregnancies were unintended or not, economic conditions, life circumstances, etc... there is not an increase in mental health issues among women who have had abortions.    That may still mean there are a few women who experience anguish or mental health issues from their abortions - but the studies reveal that this is not widespread or common.  

Basically, the whole "Post-abortion Syndrome" thing, in so far as we have determined to date, is a complete farce made up by some overzealous pro-lifers.

Now, research has identified some conditions where there does seem to actually be a small correlation with mental issues in women who aborted.  What are those conditions?  Either the woman has strong conservative views on life and abortion, or she is in environments where her peers have strong conservative views on life and abortion.  In other words, conservative beliefs about abortion might actually induce mental health issues in some women who have abortions.   What a shock (not really).  
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Post by: rubliw on February 14, 2011, 01:49:34 PM
"Forcing women...to submit..."   Talk about a 'mindless being'.

That's a lame-ass dodge and you know it. Tell us, who forced her to submit to the act that produced said 'trivial slip up'?
There's only one method of birth control that's 100% effective- and it ain't "hope".
A fetus can feel pain at 8 weeks.  Do you drown  unwanted kittens and puppies too?

Fetuses cannot feel pain at 8 weeks.   Fetuses at 8 weeks certainly have nerves and a developing spinal column.   But they no more have feeling or sensation of pain than does a quadriplegic have feeling or sensation of pain in his limbs.  Even in quadriplegics have nerves in their arms and legs that fire when stimulated - those signals just can't reach the brain where the conscious feeling of pain (and other sensations) are generated.    Some form of mind is necessary for the sensation of pain - and a fetus at 8 weeks doest have one.  

Speaking of birth control, are you prepared to outlaw oral contraceptives for women?  Birth control pills don't always prevent conception, and are proven to create conditions in women's reproductive systems that produce spontaneous abortions.    Even if its a relatively rare phenomenon, given the number of women on birth control pills worldwide, its a statistical certainty that pill racks up quite a body count each year, that is surely unacceptable to any pro-life who has the stones to be consistent with his or her convictions.

I wonder how many women here are on the pill, and how many have ever missed their daily dose, and had sex?  Did you double up on your dosage the next day?   Guess what that does?  It usually prevents implantation of an embryo.   According to pro-life principles, if you have done that, you just murdered a person.   Of course, don't feel bad - because that position is obviously absurd.

The pro-life position leads to other absurdities as well.   Take for instances a scientist who fertilizes an egg in a lab.   The pro-lifer position would have us call it the moral equivalent of committing murder when the scientist discards the fertilized egg, when his research is done.  

Furthermore, if society adopted pro-life principles, we must surely reallocate a tremendous amount of resources to stop spontaneous abortions.  Spontaneous abortions are estimated to occur in 30-50% of all pregnancies.   Think of the body count each year - it handily dwarfs the body count of even the most serious of diseases.   If embryos and zygotes were truly the moral equivalent of human beings with minds, then we surely must incur a tremendous opportunity cost - we would be morally obliged to devote vast medical resources away from things like heart disease, cancer, and HIV, in order to save the vast number of human beings who die each year from spontaneous abortion.  
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Splashdown on February 15, 2011, 05:48:47 AM
Thanks for displaying exactly why it is pointless to debate anyone who is pro-abortion.

Anyone who can equate a developing fetus to a bunch of skin cells is not worth debating.

Anyone who can equate a miscarriage to an act of abortion is not worth debating.


And, for the record, when the fetus can or cannot feel pain is still up for debate in the scientific world. Once again, you prove that you "know" everything. Best of luck.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Gina on February 15, 2011, 07:38:47 AM
The pro-life position leads to other absurdities as well.   Take for instances a scientist who fertilizes an egg in a lab.   The pro-lifer position would have us call it the moral equivalent of committing murder when the scientist discards the fertilized egg, when his research is done.  

Furthermore, if society adopted pro-life principles, we must surely reallocate a tremendous amount of resources to stop spontaneous abortions.  Spontaneous abortions are estimated to occur in 30-50% of all pregnancies.   


Well most women that I know that have had fertilized eggs frozen will not discard them.  They have either donated them to a couple that can not conceive or they keep them frozen forever.

There isn't a way to stop a miscarriage once it starts so it would not make sense to throw money at the problem.  The only thing you can do is try to figure out the problem and be proactive the next time.  I am a habitual aborter (medical term) ::)  imagine my surprise when I heard that description of me.  Felt like someone was calling me the most vile name.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Karin on February 15, 2011, 10:36:29 AM
Oh Gina!  You would think the medical community could come up with a more compassionate term than that!  What are they thinking?  They're not.  Terrible, on so many levels. 
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Alpha Mare on February 15, 2011, 11:17:44 AM
The cortex isn’t needed to feel pain. The thalamus is needed and is functioning at 8 weeks. Obviously you only read research from NARAL.

If
you ever do allow a fetus to survive, do yourself a favor. When the child asks about her birth (and she will), don't tell her she was a 'trivial slip up' and you seriously considered killing her.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 15, 2011, 02:29:05 PM
The cortex isn’t needed to feel pain. The thalamus is needed and is functioning at 8 weeks. Obviously you only read research from NARAL.

If
you ever do allow a fetus to survive, do yourself a favor. When the child asks about her birth (and she will), don't tell her she was a 'trivial slip up' and you seriously considered killing her.

That's horribly misleading.   Its rather unimportant whether pain signals are fired along nerve pathways - it matters whether there's any hardware to perceive it.  And that doesnt happen till the cortex.  

Till there's a cortex, pain signals are trees falling in a forest, with no one around.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 15, 2011, 03:05:42 PM
There isn't a way to stop a miscarriage once it starts so it would not make sense to throw money at the problem....

Most abortion prohibitionists work very hard to make us believe that an embryo is, by all accounts, a person whose life is as deserving of preservation as mine or yours.  Yes?

So imagine this.  What if, instead of 30%-50% of embryos inexplicably dropping dead inside the womb, it was 30%-50% of five year old children that inexplicably dropped dead, every year.   In that context, would you find your above comment acceptable?  Would you throw up your hands and say, "There isn't a way to prevent those 5 year olds from dropping dead, so it doesn't make sense to throw money at the problem"?  I sure hope not.  Nobody would.   If we didnt know of a way to stop those 5 year olds from dying, we sure as heck would be doing everything we could to find one, full stop. It would be nothing less than the single worst ongoing human tragedy, period.  

If you're convinced that an embryo is as deserving of life as either you or I (or a 5 year old child) or if you're convinced that intentionally killing an embryo is the same as murdering a child, then you must also view the spontaneous deaths of embryos to be the same as a 5 year old child spontaneously dying.  You simply must.   The single worst and ongoing human tragedy in the world is reality - 30%-50% of children are spontaneously dropping dead, literally.  Level of development doesnt matter right?  

So how on earth is the level of indifference that you express (and that the pro-life movement as a whole seems to express) actually acceptable according to pro-life principles?
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Gina on February 15, 2011, 03:33:34 PM
You try so hard to convince yourself that you are right when deep down you know you are so morally corrupt you are questioning yourself with all these posts.  It's so obvious.  You are just trying to argue for the sake of arguing.  Or........you just don't care about life.  Either way, you aren't going to change anyone's mind here.  We have the notion that all life needs to be protected. 
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 15, 2011, 03:53:29 PM
You try so hard to convince yourself that you are right when deep down you know you are so morally corrupt you are questioning yourself with all these posts.  It's so obvious.  You are just trying to argue for the sake of arguing.  Or........you just don't care about life.  Either way, you aren't going to change anyone's mind here.  We have the notion that all life needs to be protected.  

Sure, I question myself with these posts... as should you.  I honestly do question my principles on this matter.  I don't think they are "morally corrupt" (just the opposite), but what if they are?  What if yours are?  Do you just assume your position is so infallible as to be beyond question?  I don't.  If you do, that's a big problem.  Real argumentation is not a battle to be won, but a form of inquiry.  

So... why avoid the question I posed in my last post?

What I suspect, based on your indifference and the subsequent question avoidance, is that even you, on an intuitive, instinctual level actually realize that the life of an embryo is not as valuable as the life of a more developed person.   I'm convinced most pro-lifers also have those same intuitions, as every one I've ever posed that scenario too, responds in a similar way.


Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Gina on February 15, 2011, 04:02:25 PM
A beating heart is life.  They are both valuable to me.  A 5yr old will be more emotionally valuable to me because I have a child.  But that doesn't diminish the fact that an embryo with a beating heart has just as much a right to live as you.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Godot showed up on February 15, 2011, 04:07:52 PM
Not to get too much into a pro-eugenics argument, but I am opposed to too much interference in what little bit of natural selection still operates on us. Save all those miscarriages and you'll likely be preserving so many bad recessives that no one could guess at the consequences for the whole species. If a high percentage of 5-year-olds were dropping dead all around us, and had been since as long as we can remember (that is, we're talking about a constant in human history, not some new disease or syndrome), as is the case with miscarrriages, then there'd likely be a really good genetic reason for it, either in the mother's developmental apparatus or the child or both.

That is NOT the case in abortion, rubliw; abortion is NOT a spontaneous, naturally occurring event, as miscarriages are, and so your analogy is superficial and falls apart on even gross inspection.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: dandi on February 15, 2011, 04:19:52 PM
What I suspect, based on your indifference and the subsequent question avoidance, is that even you, on an intuitive, instinctual level actually realize that the life of an embryo is not as valuable as the life of a more developed person.   I'm convinced most pro-lifers also have those same intuitions, as every one I've ever posed that scenario too, responds in a similar way.

If you have taken that away from this thread, then there is truly no hope for you to hear any voice other than your own, wilbur.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Eupher on February 15, 2011, 04:26:31 PM
If you have taken that away from this thread, then there is truly no hope for you to hear any voice other than your own, wilbur.

And that's precisely why I stopped talking to the guy.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Airwolf on February 15, 2011, 04:51:18 PM
Evil. Sorry but anyone that thinks like this chew toy cannot be anything but evil in his or her heart if they had one.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: catsmtrods on February 15, 2011, 04:56:05 PM
OMG You should just eat shit and die like your avatar. You are just a POS animal.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: DefiantSix on February 15, 2011, 04:59:06 PM
OMG You should just eat shit and die like your avatar. You are just a POS animal.

If it makes Wilbur feel any better, we can tell him it's an abortion in the 83rd trimester or something.  Then we can remind him he won't feel a ****in' thing
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: delilahmused on February 15, 2011, 05:32:19 PM
You can't have it both ways, you can't say it's a life after a particular week and abortion shouldn't be allowed then turn around and say it can be allowed in this this and that week. It's really easy, either it's murder or it isn't, there's no in between, and if it's murder after say week 22 then it's murder after week 1.

That's what was thinking. A baby is a mere brainless puddle of cells at 21 weeks 6 days but at 22 weeks (the next day) it becomes a baby. That seems arbitrary and a tad irrational. It's kind of like the bumper sticker that says "Everyone who is pro abortion has already been born". And it's disgusting to be told we're misguided, ignorant, or whatever is the name du jour because we believe that ALL life has value. That's sanctimonious bullshit.

You can rationalize all you want but it's still murder. It's not even a question of religion. It's about respect for human life, protecting the most innocent, and compassion. It says quite a lot about a society that allows, even celebrates a woman's right to kill her baby for arbitrary reasons. If you don't think they celebrate it just look at planned parenthood...they made t-shirts that women actually WORE declaring to the world they had an abortion. And then there's their yearly Christmas cards. Tis the season to celebrate pro-choice. Might want to suck that baby out of the womb before you get the tree. Who wants to be saddled with a mistake when they've got parties to attend, turkey to cook, and presents to open.

Cindie
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Alpha Mare on February 15, 2011, 06:28:07 PM
That's horribly misleading.   Its rather unimportant whether pain signals are fired along nerve pathways - it matters whether there's any hardware to perceive it.  And that doesnt happen till the cortex.  

Till there's a cortex, pain signals are trees falling in a forest, with no one around.

 You are the poster-twit for Mind Numbing Stupidity. 
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: vesta111 on February 15, 2011, 06:47:56 PM
Since I am a real nut, let me try here to debate Wilber.

OK, Wilber, we can now with science grow, clone and do all kinds of interesting things to humans, animals and plants.

How  does  one sperm navigate its way inside a females body break through the surface of her egg while fighting 200,000 or so other sperm.

Each sperm is different you know and who ever wins the race is the WINNER.

The fastest, the strongest sperm out of hundreds of thousands of sperm gets the prize.  At times a female will release 2 or more eggs and they, the other sperm have a chance to grab the other eggs.  Each child will be different not identical.

Then at times for some reason we do not know an egg will split into 2-3-4 pieces all carrying the DNA from one sperm. All will be identical except for their finger and toe prints.

Now by some unbelievable reason the eggs begin to grow, at first they are all female, the males develop when a hormone is released into them or the sperm is programed to produce males, the sperm determines we believe at this time, the sex of the being.

This goes on for most animals and all humans.

This tissue that is growing will Allways take on the beings that produced it. The DNA has to fit.

What is growing inside the female human cannot be cross bread.   A Moose cannot give birth to a pig and a female human cannot give birth to a rabbit.  While there are some animals that can be cross bread, the results are usually sterile.

Comes down to if your dog is pregnant, it will birth puppy's not cats or humans.

When the sperm makes its entry into the egg, a human begins to developer, at that second there is Life as the egg begins to grow. The 9 or so months of growth for this being lasts until it can live on its own, sort of like a tad pole growing into a frog.

So much goes on in the body of the host animal or human to insure the life with in them grows that the life will fight for survival even if it has to kill the host.

To equate life with a tumor or growth is absurd, the tumor will all ways be a tumor, may spread but never live on its own, or be anything but a tumor.

Once the birthing is done the living human, kitten or puppy is helpless, although it has been born it is still for a few weeks or a month totally helpless, they do not think or reason, they just demand food and comfort.  All they know is instinct at this point.
 
So are these baby's not yet human or a cat or a dog.???  They need time in their development to physically and mentally grow out side the womb.----Same as they did inside the womb.

By the thinking of the pro-choice folk, it is easy to see how they may someday believe a human is not a human until it acts like one,  abortion can now be extended to 2-3 week old living baby's.   Children with severe autism, or in the case of a child born blind, deaf or missing an arm or a leg.

I believe that when that strong sperm breaks down the door to the egg, something miraculous happens, LIFE.   What is that spark that creates life.   That spark stays with the being until death and if you have ever lived on a farm or seen a living being die, that spark then leaves the body.   Watch a human being born, it has that spark at birth,Had it from the time of conception otherwise it would not continue to grow.

Next time you see a woman in late pregnancy try to realise that once you began living in the body of a woman, you floated there for months growing you body, kicked and punched to get comfortable in there.  Once you were born it was weeks or a month or more until you no longer acted on instinct and became aware of your Surroundings.    


So my dear Wilber, can you pin point the exact time you became a Human???
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 15, 2011, 10:10:36 PM
Not to get too much into a pro-eugenics argument, but I am opposed to too much interference in what little bit of natural selection still operates on us. Save all those miscarriages and you'll likely be preserving so many bad recessives that no one could guess at the consequences for the whole species. If a high percentage of 5-year-olds were dropping dead all around us, and had been since as long as we can remember (that is, we're talking about a constant in human history, not some new disease or syndrome), as is the case with miscarrriages, then there'd likely be a really good genetic reason for it, either in the mother's developmental apparatus or the child or both.

Well, OK, that's an interesting take.   So you're saying that if 30-50% of 5 year olds just dropped dead for no reason that we were able to discern, we wouldn't care because we'd just be desensitized to it.   Not sure that really helps the pro-life position any.

But in any case, remember that embryos are no less than human children according to pro-life.  So what you're saying, in pro-life terms, is that there is an entire class of human children who are unusually afflicted with a whole host of severe genetic disorders and are rewarded with our complete indifference and tragically early deaths.   Well, this state of affairs should earn the disgust of every single pro-lifer who has the courage of his/her convictions and should only increases our moral obligation to this segment of the human population.  We should be compelled to feel even more urgency towards the plight of our fragile, dying embryos... err, I mean children.  

You speak of our genetic fitness.  Well again, I repeat: Human embryos are no less than children according to pro-life - members of the human species - so how could they remain consistent with their principles, decry eugenics in one breath, and then disregard the untimely deaths of millions of (what they believe to be) human children for the sake of the genetic fitness of the human population in another?   They can't.

Thinking of microscopic embryos as children simply leads to absurdity.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 15, 2011, 10:27:48 PM
That's what was thinking. A baby is a mere brainless puddle of cells at 21 weeks 6 days but at 22 weeks (the next day) it becomes a baby. That seems arbitrary and a tad irrational.

Conception is not an instant in time - its a process that occurs over several hours and literally consists of millions of chemical reactions.   Millions of them even happen before DNA is combined or even before the sperm cell dissolves inside the egg.   So at which precise reaction out those millions does the egg and sperm transition to a distinct living member of the human species?  There really isnt one.  Just like there is no exact moment we can really point to in time to determine when a mind exists and when it doesnt.

So what do we do?  We choose the latest point in development where we can be sure there is no mind... and 20-22 weeks is a nice conservative estimate, in that regard.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 15, 2011, 11:29:28 PM
By the thinking of the pro-choice folk, it is easy to see how they may someday believe a human is not a human until it acts like one,  abortion can now be extended to 2-3 week old living baby's.   Children with severe autism, or in the case of a child born blind, deaf or missing an arm or a leg.

Actually - you aren't dealing with MY claim - which is that things with minds, not merely things human, are the members of the moral realm.  The term "human" is completely amoral.  So its irrelevant to me whether fetuses or embryos are human, for the purposes of this discussion.  They certainly are human.  But they don't have minds.  So I don't think we have any real moral obligations towards them.

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So my dear Wilber, can you pin point the exact time you became a Human???

No.  I don't even think the question makes sense.  Sperm cells and egg cells are human.  Maybe you mean "distinct member of the human species".  Even then its not clear cut - as I articulate below, conception is a process, not an intant in time.  But even if we could pin down a reasonable exact moment in time - given my claims above - who cares?  "Human" is amoral.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Alpha Mare on February 16, 2011, 05:17:31 AM
Human or not?



(http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTsBraeNeXoGrBUQYRPC-3mLfusK0YRWzqVStG1LaGcAWmD_jYKGA)
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Godot showed up on February 16, 2011, 09:16:15 AM
Well, OK, that's an interesting take.   So you're saying that if 30-50% of 5 year olds just dropped dead for no reason that we were able to discern, we wouldn't care because we'd just be desensitized to it.   Not sure that really helps the pro-life position any.

But in any case, remember that embryos are no less than human children according to pro-life.  So what you're saying, in pro-life terms, is that there is an entire class of human children who are unusually afflicted with a whole host of severe genetic disorders and are rewarded with our complete indifference and tragically early deaths.   Well, this state of affairs should earn the disgust of every single pro-lifer who has the courage of his/her convictions and should only increases our moral obligation to this segment of the human population.  We should be compelled to feel even more urgency towards the plight of our fragile, dying embryos... err, I mean children.   

You speak of our genetic fitness.  Well again, I repeat: Human embryos are no less than children according to pro-life - members of the human species - so how could they remain consistent with their principles, decry eugenics in one breath, and then disregard the untimely deaths of millions of (what they believe to be) human children for the sake of the genetic fitness of the human population in another?   They can't.

Thinking of microscopic embryos as children simply leads to absurdity.




Rubliw, I’m afraid you’ve made an incorrect assumption here, although I’ll grant that it’s not an unreasonable assumption, given the majority of CC’s member’s positions and my own position vis-à-vis your analogy. I’m not, as you usually think of it, pro-life. Or rather, I’m not a pro-life absolutist. I am, though, anti-Roe—the judicially set clock needs to be turned back for determination of when abortion is acceptable. So your observation that my concern over countering too much of non-human-created environmental factors to the detriment of natural selection doesn’t reinforce a pro-life argument is correct. I was just making a point about the dangers of preserving too many unfit alleles, and then pointing out that your analogy doesn’t work. Abortion in your comparison would be analogous to mothers killing their 5-year-old children, not 5-year-olds just inexplicably dropping dead—from a pro-life stance, or, even, from simply a sensibly rational stance. Granted, miscarriage would be analogous in your comparison to 5-year-olds inexplicably dropping dead, but then, miscarriages are hardly abortions, are they? Whatever one’s position on abortion/choice, there is no question that it is killing. The question has always been, is it murder?

I did not write that we should automatically abort the badly genetically unfit, if such is confirmable by amniocentesis or sonogram, although I’m by no means the first one to question how our eradication of so many dangerous environmental factors and preservation of so many unfit alleles to reproductive adulthood may be affecting our future as a species. Childhood vaccination alone may be having far-reaching consequences. Frankly, I don’t see how there’s any “may” about it, anyway. We HAVE to be altering our genetic fitness as a species through modern medicine—such wholesale interventions cannot fail to have consequences.

Your argument with my strongly pro-life friends at this point seems to me to boil down to that, if they are vehemently opposed to all abortion, then by their own moral precepts they are required to actively prevent, as much as they can and with all the political will they can muster, miscarriages. But by their lights, abortion is murder, and by any lights, miscarriages are accidental deaths. One need not  embark on a crusade to prevent all accidental deaths to remain morally consistent with opposition to deliberate murder!
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Airwolf on February 16, 2011, 10:12:49 AM
We need a 15 day waiting period for turdballs to post.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: dandi on February 16, 2011, 11:11:38 AM
The term "human" is completely amoral.

"Human" is amoral.

No, simpleton, it's not. 

Quote from: human
a human being.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/human

Quote from: human being
a person, especially as distinguished from other animals or as representing the human species:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/human+being

Quote from: amoral
1.  not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral nor immoral.

2.  having no moral standards, restraints, or principles; unaware of or indifferent to questions of right or wrong:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/amoral

You have zero understanding of the words you are using.

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So its irrelevant to me whether fetuses or embryos are human, for the purposes of this discussion.  They certainly are human.  But they don't have minds.  So I don't think we have any real moral obligations towards them.

Keep talking, wilbur.  A bright light needs to stay shined upon "humans" like you.

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Sperm cells and egg cells are human.

No, simpleton, they're not.  They are separate cells that, when combined (ie conception), make a human life.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: ConservativeMobster on February 16, 2011, 12:57:18 PM
OMG! I finally "see the light" wilbur.  It's amazing that after all my years on this earth, the 2 beautiful children I birthed, myriad forum conversations, untold books I've read, politicians I've admired, ad nauseum, YOU finally made me cognizant of the fact that I was wrong in my belief that conception meant life.  How could I have been so ignorant?  I must re-think this whole GOD thing.

 :banghead:   :argh:

I hate how these trolls think they can wander into a conservative site and school us on the issue of "life begins....abortion" debate. 

Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: BEG on February 16, 2011, 01:02:38 PM
Well most women that I know that have had fertilized eggs frozen will not discard them.  They have either donated them to a couple that can not conceive or they keep them frozen forever.

There isn't a way to stop a miscarriage once it starts so it would not make sense to throw money at the problem.  The only thing you can do is try to figure out the problem and be proactive the next time.  I am a habitual aborter (medical term) ::)  imagine my surprise when I heard that description of me.  Felt like someone was calling me the most vile name.

When I had three miscarriages in a two year timeframe they called them spontaneous abortions. I was very emotional during that time and it bothered me greatly. Also the time I passed the "products of conception" in my pants I could make out the head, arms and legs. That time I had to bring "the flakes of skin" with me to the doctor so he could make sure I passed everything. Imagine my horror of having to put it in a tupperware container then place it in a paper bag so that no one in the waiting room could see my "clump of cells" I brought with me. I wonder why pro-choice people always say it's a very emotional choice that women make. If they think like Wilbur then it should be easy peasy, like getting a wart frozen off.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: dandi on February 16, 2011, 01:59:55 PM
I hate how these trolls think they can wander into a conservative site and school us on the issue of "life begins....abortion" debate. 

Not me, I love it. 

With every word that falls out of wilbur's sewer and onto his keyboard, he further validates how morally bankrupt and devoid of humanity the pro-death position really is.  Saved for posterity on the interwebz.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Splashdown on February 16, 2011, 07:04:32 PM
OMG! I finally "see the light" wilbur.  It's amazing that after all my years on this earth, the 2 beautiful children I birthed, myriad forum conversations, untold books I've read, politicians I've admired, ad nauseum, YOU finally made me cognizant of the fact that I was wrong in my belief that conception meant life.  How could I have been so ignorant?  I must re-think this whole GOD thing.

 :banghead:   :argh:

I hate how these trolls think they can wander into a conservative site and school us on the issue of "life begins....abortion" debate. 



Especially when they're so obviously young and have so few miles on the odometer. I love how they have everything figured out.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: ConservativeMobster on February 17, 2011, 06:23:08 AM
Especially when they're so obviously young and have so few miles on the odometer. I love how they have everything figured out.

And they are generally childless.  wasp, you are correct, they are morally bankrupt and totally lacking in personal responsibility.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 17, 2011, 08:24:48 AM
And they are generally childless.  wasp, you are correct, they are morally bankrupt and totally lacking in personal responsibility.

As I pointed out earlier in this thread, women who already have at least one child account for a modest majority of women who obtain abortions, if the stats are to be believed.  So it's doubtful whether the "wisdom" that comes from having a kid is likely to change one's views or make one better informed about abortion.

In fact, in some cases, I think children might actually do harm to one's ability to think clearly on the issue.   One's views may become inextricably bound to interpersonal subjective feelings and highly emotional experiences surrounding their own children and family.    Throw a few abortion gore pictures at some mothers, not in such a way as to aid in understanding of course (you need context for that), but so as to invite them to imagine the picture as their own baby - and you've got a recipe for one who will potentially never have a rational, well considered thought on the topic again.  

Of coure, in other cases, having a child might actually cause some women to be pro-choice, given that they have been through pregnancy, childbirth and have some understanding of what that all entails.

All possibilities.  In any case, the "conventional wisdom" floating around here is completely unsubstantiated.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Splashdown on February 17, 2011, 09:08:41 AM

In fact, in some cases, I think children might actually do harm to one's ability to think clearly on the issue.   One's views may become inextricably bound to interpersonal subjective feelings and highly emotional experiences surrounding their own children and family.    Throw a few abortion gore pictures at some mothers, not in such a way as to aid in understanding of course (you need context for that), but so as to invite them to imagine the picture as their own baby - and you've got a recipe for one who will potentially never have a rational, well considered thought on the topic again. 

Of coure, in other cases, having a child might actually cause some women to be pro-choice, given that they have been through pregnancy, childbirth and have some understanding of what that all entails.


Yeah. Actually experiencing childbirth would definitely "harm" the ability to see the unborn child as a lump of sloughed-off cells. So would an ultrasound.

I was going to put a laughing smiley at the ignorance of this post, but upon a re-read, I'm saddened.

Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: ConservativeMobster on February 17, 2011, 09:16:40 AM
I was speaking to the "childless" posters that cannot relate to this discussion from experience.  Such as yourself.  My point is not that you have an opinion merely that I loathe discussing this issue with a person that seems only to speak as one more knowledgable than a mother. For most of us, this topic is not a science related one, it's personal.

Have you addressed the photo posted by Alpha Mare?



Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 17, 2011, 09:23:10 AM
Yeah. Actually experiencing childbirth would definitely "harm" the ability to see the unborn child as a lump of sloughed-off cells. So would an ultrasound.

I was going to put a laughing smiley at the ignorance of this post, but upon a re-read, I'm saddened.

By "ignorance of this post" are you referring to your own words?  Because we've already been over the fact that most women who procure abortions have at least one child.   
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 17, 2011, 09:31:54 AM
I was speaking to the "childless" posters that cannot relate to this discussion from experience.  Such as yourself.  My point is not that you have an opinion merely that I loathe discussing this issue with a person that seems only to speak as one more knowledgable than a mother. For most of us, this topic is not a science related one, it's personal.

Well, I fully acknowledge that the emotional experience of child birth and child rearing is something I do not know.  But there are certain facts of the matter that, no matter how emotional one is, one cannot deny or change.  Fetuses don't have minds till late into pregnancy.  And despite the attachement that you and many other women may feel to your own developing children, not all women feel the same.

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Have you addressed the photo posted by Alpha Mare?

There's little to address.  No context at all was provided.  The relevant question for me is: in that picture, was there a mind present?

Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 17, 2011, 09:44:08 AM
No, simpleton, it's not.  

You have zero understanding of the words you are using.

The quoted definitions do nothing to aid your case (or detract from mine).

The designation "human" (ie, belonging to the homo-sapien species) is amoral (ie, neither immoral nor moral).   And moral value is not brought about the string of letters with which we choose to associate with things, but by real relevant facts about the nature of those things.  

Now, the term 'human' is actually bound to real relevant facts about things that exist in this world.    In other words, we can't just call anything human (or else the word would cease to have ANY useful meaning).  If something is 'human', it must posses certain features.   Well, what are the features something needs in order to be called human?  And are they they kind of features that bring about moral value?

So - lets get to the bottom of it - what specifically are the features that make humans (or any other living creature) morally relevant?  I've articulated my belief on the matter... its the mind.  You, so far, have simply relied on vicious circularity... "humans are valuable because they are humans"..  you need to do much much better even to get your case to the point of being intelligible.

Just as aside, as I've repeated a few times, the designation "homo-sapien" is a purely a scientific categorization (morality has nothing to do with it, period).  Its meant to be scientifically useful, not morally useful.  So by relying so heavily on the term 'homo-sapien', you've essentially made the biologist into your moral dictator, whether you realize it or not.  And I would find it VERY hard to believe that you are OK with that, or would grant any science such overreaching authority to any scientists, in defining your moral realm.


Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: dandi on February 17, 2011, 09:54:46 AM
So it's doubtful whether the "wisdom" that comes from having a kid is likely to change one's views or make one better informed about abortion.

So says the individual who has none.

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In fact, in some cases, I think children might actually do harm to one's ability to think clearly on the issue.   One's views may become inextricably bound to interpersonal subjective feelings and highly emotional experiences surrounding their own children and family.

Oh, that is classic!  You have no children and no moral grounding ("amoral" as it were), yet you try to present some sort of expertise in the matter.

 :lmao:

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Throw a few abortion gore pictures at some mothers, not in such a way as to aid in understanding of course (you need context for that), but so as to invite them to imagine the picture as their own baby - and you've got a recipe for one who will potentially never have a rational, well considered thought on the topic again.

No, with pictures you have perspective and context, simpleton.  I'm sure you would rather those who support your pro-death position without having children of their own not see those images.

Seeing those images would give the ignorant some perspective and context, wilbur.  Two sides so they could make a choice, as it were.

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Of coure, in other cases, having a child might actually cause some women to be pro-choice, given that they have been through pregnancy, childbirth and have some understanding of what that all entails.

Please give your mother our best regards.

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All possibilities.  In any case, the "conventional wisdom" floating around here is completely unsubstantiated.

You are wrong, simpleton.  The "conventional wisdom floating around here" comes from a love of life, a grounding in humanity, and practical experience. 

Practical experience gives one a perspective and context from which to guide.  Apparently, it's a perspective and context you are sadly lacking; the more you type, the more it shines through.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: dandi on February 17, 2011, 10:01:45 AM
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Have you addressed the photo posted by Alpha Mare?

There's little to address.  No context at all was provided.  The relevant question for me is: in that picture, was there a mind present?

 :lmao:

Holy crap, you're pathetic!
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: BEG on February 17, 2011, 10:08:32 AM
As I pointed out earlier in this thread, women who already have at least one child account for a modest majority of women who obtain abortions, if the stats are to be believed.  So it's doubtful whether the "wisdom" that comes from having a kid is likely to change one's views or make one better informed about abortion.

In fact, in some cases, I think children might actually do harm to one's ability to think clearly on the issue.   One's views may become inextricably bound to interpersonal subjective feelings and highly emotional experiences surrounding their own children and family.    Throw a few abortion gore pictures at some mothers, not in such a way as to aid in understanding of course (you need context for that), but so as to invite them to imagine the picture as their own baby - and you've got a recipe for one who will potentially never have a rational, well considered thought on the topic again.  

Of coure, in other cases, having a child might actually cause some women to be pro-choice, given that they have been through pregnancy, childbirth and have some understanding of what that all entails.

All possibilities.  In any case, the "conventional wisdom" floating around here is completely unsubstantiated.

WTF?  My last pregnancy I got pregnant while taking methotrexate (look it up). I was scared shitless, my rheumatologist told me to abort. I refused, went to a see a genetics specialist who said she couldn't say if I got off the mexthotrexate in time. Because I had had a stroke about 10 years prior (I have an auto immune disease called takayasu arteritis) my doctor was also afraid I could have another stroke during the pregnancy or delivery. I had to give myself heparin (blood thinner) shots twice a day in my stomach (try doing that when you are 9 months pregnant) and take 20 mg of prednisone a day (I looked like a fat fatty during my pregnancy because of the moon face steroids give you). I also had to see the doctor weekly in the beginning, every other week during about 18-26 weeks, monthly for awhile then back to weekly until I delivered.  Oh I also got gestational diabetes from the prednisone.  

I thought about the health of my clump of cells every waking moment.  There were many nights I cried because I was so very worried. When it came time to deliver her my doctor didn't want me to push, try having a baby come out of you without pushing......  

Anyway, during that time I never entertained the thought of aborting her. Today she is a perfectly healthy 12 year old who is in an advanced program in her school and is also a very talented artist.

So that non aware non thinking clump of cells that you would easily stop the heart of and throw in the trash would never be allowed to mature into a wonderful child like my daughter. Thankfully you don't have a vagina and can't go around having abortions when it isn't convenient to have a baby.

I would do it over again in a heartbeat, you don't have the balls to go through everything I had to do.  You are a wimpy liberal who isn't man enough to do what it takes.  
  
 
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Godot showed up on February 17, 2011, 10:30:48 AM
rubliw, have you ever asked yourself why so many people feel so strongly that abortion is murder at any stage of development of the fetus, from zygote to near birth? You know it can't simply be religious upbringing; organized religion teaches that many things are sins or wrong that people regularly ignore, and I don't mean criminals, just ordinary, everyday people. Why does so large a segment of the American population not see it your way?

I have had similar thoughts, that of course the brain is the seat of our humanity and that until it's up and running to some reasonable degree, we're talking about human life in potentia and not actualized human life. I have in later years tried to make myself look beyond that easy conclusion, without, as I must as a nobeliever, the other easy benefit to the answering of this question--believing in the existence of a soul.

I can't escape the nagging feeling that we're missing something with the easy answer of active brain = fully fledged human being. One tentative thought I've had is that, at all stages, we're more than our brains and any other parts of our bodies, even without a soul in the equation. Another thought I've had has been about worldlines, and the path of a decisionmaking entity as it makes its way in spacetime. Maybe it's the path we should be considering, and not the entity. In which case the state of the brain or body would be irrelevant to considerations of abortion, and the zugote would be just as important as the late-term fetus. But I've never gotten much further than that.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 17, 2011, 10:36:05 AM
I would do it over again in a heartbeat, you don't have the balls to go through everything I had to do.  You are a wimpy liberal who isn't man enough to do what it takes.  

That's a nice anecdote, but it doesnt confront the fact that most women who procure abortions have a child already... obviously, they have quite a different experience than you.  I'm not making it up.

Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: dandi on February 17, 2011, 10:49:59 AM
The quoted definitions do nothing to aid your case (or detract from mine).

The designation "human" (ie, belonging to the homo-sapien species) is amoral (ie, neither immoral nor moral).   And moral value is not brought about the string of letters with which we choose to associate with things, but by real relevant facts about the nature of those things.

*sigh*

I gave you three definitions, wilbur, and (as expected) you utterly failed to take away anything relevant.  They were human, human being, amoral.  "Human being" is not "amoral", wilbur; a "designation" that you obviously skpped over.  "Human" is a designator but "human being" is something else entirely.  "Amoral" is something that you are, wilbur:  "no moral  standards, restraints, or principles; unaware of or indifferent to questions of right or wrong".  

You don't get to own the language or it's defining statements, wilbur, to suit your whims.

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Now, the term 'human' is actually bound to real relevant facts about things that exist in this world.    In other words, we can't just call anything human (or else the word would cease to have ANY useful meaning).  If something is 'human', it must posses certain features.   Well, what are the features something needs in order to be called human?  And are they they kind of features that bring about moral value?

From the link I provided, that which you skipped entirely:

Quote from: human
1.  of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people

2.  consisting of people

3.  of or pertaining to the social aspect of people

4.  sympathetic

Goes further than what you want it to mean, simpleton.

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- what specifically are the features that make humans (or any other living creature) morally relevant?  I've articulated my belief on the matter... its the mind.

No, what you have given is this:

Quote from: opinion
1.  a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty.

2.  a personal view, attitude, or appraisal.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/opinion
 

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You, so far, have simply relied on vicious circularity... "humans are valuable because they are humans"..  you need to do much much better even to get your case to the point of being intelligible.

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No, wilbur, they are based squarely on the value of all human life.  It doesn't take a shaman, priest, minister, imam, or anyone else to tell anyone that retains any shred of common sense and human decency that killing the most innocent and helpless among us for a matter of convenience is wrong.

Quite frankly, wilbur, you should be very grateful that there are more of us than there are of you.  That sanctity of human life that we hold so dear in our society is one of the only reasons you are safe in your house and on the streets in our country.  When a majority of the populace puts no value on life, yours will become very cheap.
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,55189.msg627315.html#msg627315

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Honestly, wilbur, all of those words and all of your pseudo intellectual pap don't change the final outcome - dead.

Assume much, wilbur?  What makes life valuable is life itself, wilbur.  As one who holds all human life precious, I don't expect a pro-deather like you to understand that.

In the absence of God, it boils down to human compassion and dignity, wilbur.  Not selecting who lives or dies because she's a girl.

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,55189.msg627465.html#msg627465

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What part of "all human life" did you miss in my post, wilbur?

We are not the final arbiters of who lives and who dies as a means of convenience, wilbur.

Incidentally, wilbur, my moral regard is not defined by "species".
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,55189.msg627554.html#msg627554

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I took my position from a standpoint of common sense and human decency, a standpoint rooted in technology and reality.  Unborn children will attempt to escape/defend themselves in the womb if they are threatened, wilbur; sonograms of abortions will tell you that.
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,55189.msg628734.html#msg628734

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The "conventional wisdom floating around here" comes from a love of life, a grounding in humanity, and practical experience. 
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,55189.msg632827.html#msg632827

If you're going to try and attribute something to me, simpleton, make sure you at least get it right.

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Just as aside, as I've repeated a few times, the designation "homo-sapien" is a purely a scientific categorization (morality has nothing to do with it, period).  Its meant to be scientifically useful, not morally useful.  So by relying so heavily on the term 'homo-sapien', you've essentially made the biologist into your moral dictator, whether you realize it or not.  And I would find it VERY hard to believe that you are OK with that, or would grant any science such overreaching authority to any scientists, in defining your moral realm.

"Human", "human being", "human life".  Get it right, simpleton.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 17, 2011, 11:43:37 AM
rubliw, have you ever asked yourself why so many people feel so strongly that abortion is murder at any stage of development of the fetus, from zygote to near birth? You know it can't simply be religious upbringing; organized religion teaches that many things are sins or wrong that people regularly ignore, and I don't mean criminals, just ordinary, everyday people. Why does so large a segment of the American population not see it your way?

I've thought about that too... its interesting question as to wether the contemporary pro-life philosophy is simply what you get when you combine certain religious dogmas with contemporary scientific knowledge of reproduction... or something else, possibly something more innate.  If you took the religious belief out of the picture, would people's minds be more open on the topic? Maybe, though its unclear to me how much things would change.

When we were awash in scientific ignorance on matters of reproduction, most people took "the quickening" to be the point in time where human life began (ie, first sign of fetal movement).   I'd be willing to bet, that view was probably born from strong intuitions which associated movement with consciousness.  Now we know that fetal movements, at least until late term, are little more than reflex arcs or randomly firing nerves, as connections grow between nerve cells.  They are purely mechanical, and have no conscious component. So those intuitions, if they are as I suspect, were completely wrong (though understandable given our ignorance).   I do suspect that modern pro-lifers might just be similarly mislead by their intuitions.  


On some level, I can identify with a pro-lifer's reaction to abortion pictures.  Like people who believed in the quickening, its our natural intuition to associate human looking features with human minds.   We can't help but look at all the gore and feel like something experienced that.  But the facts of the matter tell us differently, if we look at them honestly.  

On the other hand, I cannot look at a zygote or an embryo and stir up any emotional attachment, whatsoever.  Not even a smidgen.  Its utterly baffling to me.  Of course, its always possible that its pro-choicers who are mislead by their intuitions - but I, as of yet, remained unconvinced.  I think they have the facts on their side.  


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I have had similar thoughts, that of course the brain is the seat of our humanity and that until it's up and running to some reasonable degree, we're talking about human life in potentia and not actualized human life. I have in later years tried to make myself look beyond that easy conclusion, without, as I must as a nobeliever, the other easy benefit to the answering of this question--believing in the existence of a soul.

I can't escape the nagging feeling that we're missing something with the easy answer of active brain = fully fledged human being. One tentative thought I've had is that, at all stages, we're more than our brains and any other parts of our bodies, even without a soul in the equation. Another thought I've had has been about worldlines, and the path of a decisionmaking entity as it makes its way in spacetime. Maybe it's the path we should be considering, and not the entity. In which case the state of the brain or body would be irrelevant to considerations of abortion, and the zugote would be just as important as the late-term fetus. But I've never gotten much further than that.

Those are interesting thoughts, and I've had similar.  The point where I keep ultimately resting, is that - in the case of abortion - its not just the potential world-lines of a zygote in the equation.  Perhaps one day we will be able to extract growing humans safely and painlessly from mother's at any stage of development - and could bring them to term.  Maybe in that world we would have an interest in prohibiting abortions and might embark upon a project to actualize every potential person conceived.  Till then, we face a dilemma, which I think should be resolved in favor of the human person, not the potential one.



Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 17, 2011, 12:46:00 PM
You don't get to own the language or it's defining statements, wilbur, to suit your whims.

This conversation is becoming less interesting by the second, since your points are becoming increasingly silly and departed from the actual substantive parts of the debate.  Quibbling over definitions is boring and frustrating.  I'd much rather talk about what we actually mean, rather than create semantic landmines for one another.  If we encounter confusion based on miscommunicated definitions, then lets clear it up, and agree to definitions that meaningfully convey the points we want to make.  If we have to rephrase previous arguments in light of new definitions great - that's progress.  If you're not interesting in allowing that to happen, well then have a nice day, and I'll take your refusal to play ball as surrender.

Now, what definition of "human" does the pro-life argument depend on?  Well, since you seem so adamant here, you tell me.  You pasted 3 different definitions of human in your last post. Do you know what an equivocation is?  As per wikipedia, "it is the misleading use of a term with more than one meaning or sense (by glossing over which meaning is intended at a particular time)".  So you need to pick a definition and stick with it, or at least be clear about what definition you are using at what time, or else you're just committing the fallacy of equivocation and subjecting this conversation to more impossible ambiguity.

Same with human being - you've referred to more than one definition and apparently expected me to, maybe through telepathy or something, know which one you want to use.  

And amoral.. well, you're just plain confused about that. It sounds as if you are confused about the difference between "amoral" and "immoral".
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Alpha Mare on February 17, 2011, 02:31:18 PM
There's little to address.  No context at all was provided.  The relevant question for me is: in that picture, was there a mind present?

No, the relevant question is- is that a human or not?  A simple yes or no answer.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 17, 2011, 02:50:23 PM
No, the relevant question is- is that a human or not?  A simple yes or no answer.

Yep its human.  But so what? I have expressed the following clearly (or so I thought), time and time again:

1) Embryos, zygotes, fetuses, etc are human (as in members of the human species)
2) Species is morally irrelevant.
3) Minds ARE morally relevant.
4) Members of the human species (or any other species) that possess minds are morally relevant
5) Members of the human species (or any other species) that DON'T HAVE minds, are morally irrelevant... or at least or moral obligations towards them are severely reduced.

So, does (or did) the human in the picture have a mind?

Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Airwolf on February 17, 2011, 03:28:45 PM
People he is playing you. All he is doing is arguing for arguments sake.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: thundley4 on February 17, 2011, 03:29:36 PM
People he is playing you. All he is doing is arguing for arguments sake.

The same thing he did in the Religion section.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 17, 2011, 03:31:28 PM
People he is playing you. All he is doing is arguing for arguments sake.

Arguing... discussing... Those are the two biggest reasons for the existence of sites like these.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: catsmtrods on February 17, 2011, 04:10:35 PM
Holy shit! He's still at it.  :loser:
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: dandi on February 17, 2011, 04:17:50 PM
This conversation is becoming less interesting by the second, since your points are becoming increasingly silly and departed from the actual substantive parts of the debate.

Hardly, wilbur.  The subject of this thread is/was/has been about killing an unborn child for convenience; in this case it was killing a child for it's sex (female).

During this 13 page odyssey, we have gotten a good hard look at you and your inhumanity.  We have also gotten a chance to keep you talking which, while not being too terribly difficult, has been very illuminating of the thought processes of a childless individual who thinks value and non value can be placed on human life; any human life.

I have been very consistent in every point I have made, wilbur, and have not hesitated to ensure you knew exactly when you were being stupid.  If you no longer wish to discuss this with me, fine, I don't care.  As far as I'm concerned you have shown yourself to be exactly what every pro-death liberal ends up being.

You have convinced no one with your ignorant, sophomoric bleating.  Your ideas and "beliefs" are far from original and are as devoid of any type of humanity as the vacuum of space.  The more you type, the more you reinforce it.

I don't blame you for not addressing the points in the post you are quoting, though.  You don't seem to do very well when you can't "frame" the debate.

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Quibbling over definitions is boring and frustrating.  I'd much rather talk about what we actually mean, rather than create semantic landmines for one another.

Words have meaning, wilbur.  You don't get to pick and choose what you want them to mean.

I don't quibble over definitions.  Definitions, by the very meaning of the word, are standards and don't bend to whatever a pseudo intellectual liberal thinks they should mean.

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If we encounter confusion based on miscommunicated definitions, then lets clear it up, and agree to definitions that meaningfully convey the points we want to make.

I did clear it up, wilbur.  I gave you the definitions and made sure that you had a link to go read it yourself, that way there was no confusion as to what was being discussed.

Sorry if it didn't conform to your opinion.

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If we have to rephrase previous arguments in light of new definitions great - that's progress.

There is nothing new about the definitions of those words, wilbur.  Well, at least not to the rest of us.

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If you're not interesting in allowing that to happen, well then have a nice day, and I'll take your refusal to play ball as surrender.

 :lmao:

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Now, what definition of "human" does the pro-life argument depend on?  Well, since you seem so adamant here, you tell me.


Go back and reread the thread, wilbur.  Pay particular attention to the phrase all human life and how it is used.

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You pasted 3 different definitions of human in your last post. Do you know what an equivocation is?  As per wikipedia, "it is the misleading use of a term with more than one meaning or sense (by glossing over which meaning is intended at a particular time)".

No, I quoted the ones you purposefully glossed over.  You know, the ones that take the meaning of "human" far past a species categorization?

 :whatever:

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So you need to pick a definition and stick with it, or at least be clear about what definition you are using at what time, or else you're just committing the fallacy of equivocation and subjecting this conversation to more impossible ambiguity.

 :lmao:

Sorry, kid, I don't play by your rules. 

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Same with human being - you've referred to more than one definition and apparently expected me to, maybe through telepathy or something, know which one you want to use.

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,55189.msg631900.html#msg631900

Reread and try that again, wilbur.  

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And amoral.. well, you're just plain confused about that. It sounds as if you are confused about the difference between "amoral" and "immoral".

Well now that is interesting.  Let's see, shall we?

Quote from: amoral
having no moral  standards, restraints, or principles; unaware of or indifferent to questions of right or wrong
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/amoral

Quote from: immoral
violating moral  principles; not conforming to the patterns of conduct usually accepted or established as consistent with principles of personal and social ethics.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/immoral

Nope, got a pretty good grasp on what both of those mean, too. 
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: FreeBorn on February 17, 2011, 04:31:14 PM
OMG! I finally "see the light" wilbur.  It's amazing that after all my years on this earth, the 2 beautiful children I birthed, myriad forum conversations, untold books I've read, politicians I've admired, ad nauseum, YOU finally made me cognizant of the fact that I was wrong in my belief that conception meant life.  How could I have been so ignorant?  I must re-think this whole GOD thing.

 :banghead:   :argh:

I hate how these trolls think they can wander into a conservative site and school us on the issue of "life begins....abortion" debate. 


The fact that a Cletus or a Maynard or whoever can place so many posts here certainly highlights the difference between this site and others, indeed the very difference between libtards and conservatives. Over at the DUmp if I place a post there, not in the least bit inflammatory BTW, rather seeking to engage in any level of debate it is almost instantly erased. Here everyone is accommodated, beyond simply being tolerated and their opinions are not expunged from the public square. What ever happened to the democrats being the champion of the multitudes?
BTW- What's the latest on those errant Wisconsin State Senators?
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 17, 2011, 06:09:00 PM
Hardly, wilbur.  The subject of this thread is/was/has been about killing an unborn child for convenience; in this case it was killing a child for it's sex (female).

No, the topic of this particular tangent in which we are currently embroiled was whether the term "human" (ie, "human being", "human zygote", "human fetus") implies moral value.

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I don't blame you for not addressing the points in the post you are quoting, though.  You don't seem to do very well when you can't "frame" the debate.

Heh - If we remove all the ad hominem attacks, insults, ridicule, and the points where you just reassert your position without argument (that abortion is murder, or killing for convenience, etc), there'd be precious few words left.   Almost nothing.  That's how YOU try to frame the debate - just act like an ass and pretend like you've made argument.  To the unreachable here, it probably looks like you're doing a bang up job... but to those who aren't entrenched already, I'd have to say, you probably aren't looking very good at all.

Not to toot my own horn, but I've been mostly calm, polite, fairly articulate, open minded and I have been earnestly wishing that you and others could actually make genuine attempts to understand my beliefs.  You, on the other hand, come off as someone who is unhinged and one step shy of going on a shooting spree at an abortion clinic.

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Words have meaning, wilbur.  You don't get to pick and choose what you want them to mean.

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No, I quoted the ones you purposefully glossed over.  You know, the ones that take the meaning of "human" far past a species categorization?

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Sorry, kid, I don't play by your rules.  

Haha, Ok, so you blatantly endorse equivocation as a form of argument.  Nice.  But really, the multiple definitions of "human" you listed are independent of one another.  They are to be used separately, not all at once - as is the case with any word which has multiple definitions.  They aren't always necessarily mutually exclusive, but you need to be clear about that.   Here's why that's a problem in this debate.

Take the case of a newly conceived embryo.  When one identifies it as human, what characteristics is one looking at that to make that determination?  Well, about the best we can say is that it is a distinct organism from the mother, and its got DNA that is characteristic of a human.  Other than that, its got no similarity to you or I.  If one challenges the humanity of an embryo, most pro-lifers will cite the fact that embryos are distinct organisms and that they have human DNA as a refutation of said challenge.  And they're right, embryo's do have those traits.  And those traits are actually enough to conform to a scientific definition of the term "human" (aka, homo sapein).  Great.  I agree.   "Human" means "a distinct organism with human DNA", therefore embryos are human.

So then there is much rejoicing right?! You can now declare victory! You've won the argument, right?  You just classified an embryo as human, and "human" necessitates moral value?  Wrong.  

You've succeeded in classifying an embryo according to a scientific definition of the term human.  And that particular definition of the term "human", as I've said a million times now, doesn't even consider or acknowledge moral value (ie, its amoral), much less necessitate it, and was created based on essentially two criteria - the ability to interbreed, and/or DNA.  That's it.

Other definitions of the term "human" are more poetic and/or ambiguous and may or may not imply some moral value;  we use these other definitions when we say things like "to err is human", "she's only human", "its just human nature").  They usually smuggle in or assume the existence of a wide range of characteristics which are usually present in mindful people (ie, people with thoughts, feelings, desires, wishes - in other words, minds).  These sorts of definitions are quite a ways departed from the amoral species designation used by scientists - the designation used by pro-lifers to establish the humanity of a mindless embryo or fetus.   As soon as you add any more content to the definition of the term "human", you then necessarily exclude embryos, fetuses and generally any human thing without a mind.

Get it?  

That's an equivocation, and that's exactly what your argument depends on.  
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: ConservativeMobster on February 17, 2011, 06:37:07 PM
That's a nice anecdote, but it doesnt confront the fact that most women who procure abortions have a child already... obviously, they have quite a different experience than you.  I'm not making it up.



Another anecdote for you wilbur, then I'm done with you and this tired debate with people like you.  This story will address your specific point.

My sister had a son with her first husband.  A second son with her second husband, worked a full time job as an EMT and did her very best to be a good mother and wife.  It was hard, damn hard.  Both of those babies nearly killed her because she was physically too small to carry them to term.
She was ultimately an unhappy person and she began to drink.  Her marriage was going down fast and she found herself pregnant for the 3rd time.  In her mind, at the time, she justified the abortion as the right thing to do.  She was medically warned not to get pregnant, her husband was divorcing her and she knew she would never handle 3 young ones on her own.  Well, her life went to shit.  Lost both sons to their fathers and lived in the bottle for 15 years.
Last February she was diagnosed with lung cancer and pronounced terminal.  I spent many nights with her, talking about the end, her life and what she would do over given the chance.  She had 2 concerns.  Leaving my parents with the hurt her death would bring and facing GOD over that abortion.  She silently, all of the time since the abortion, grieved for that child. 
So yeah, maybe your damn statistic is correct.  But it's just that, a freaking number.  It doesn't answer the emotion, pain or regret that many of those women feel. And just maybe, if someone did a study concerning alcohol abuse and the cause, just maybe more than a few women would say that that procedure haunted them all of their days and helped fuel terrible decisions there after.  My sis felt beyond redemption.  And people like YOU encourage the idea that it's ok to rid yourself of a clump of cells because it's YOUR right and not really a human after all.  Take the easy way out because before 22 weeks there is no pain or thought process.  Bullshit.  A life unborn can haunt for a lifetime. 
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 17, 2011, 07:01:43 PM
Another anecdote for you wilbur, then I'm done with you and this tired debate with people like you.  This story will address your specific point.

My sister had a son with her first husband.  A second son with her second husband, worked a full time job as an EMT and did her very best to be a good mother and wife.  It was hard, damn hard.  Both of those babies nearly killed her because she was physically too small to carry them to term.
She was ultimately an unhappy person and she began to drink.  Her marriage was going down fast and she found herself pregnant for the 3rd time.  In her mind, at the time, she justified the abortion as the right thing to do.  She was medically warned not to get pregnant, her husband was divorcing her and she knew she would never handle 3 young ones on her own.  Well, her life went to shit.  Lost both sons to their fathers and lived in the bottle for 15 years.
Last February she was diagnosed with lung cancer and pronounced terminal.  I spent many nights with her, talking about the end, her life and what she would do over given the chance.  She had 2 concerns.  Leaving my parents with the hurt her death would bring and facing GOD over that abortion.  She silently, all of the time since the abortion, grieved for that child.  
So yeah, maybe your damn statistic is correct.  But it's just that, a freaking number.  It doesn't answer the emotion, pain or regret that many of those women feel. And just maybe, if someone did a study concerning alcohol abuse and the cause, just maybe more than a few women would say that that procedure haunted them all of their days and helped fuel terrible decisions there after.  My sis felt beyond redemption.  And people like YOU encourage the idea that it's ok to rid yourself of a clump of cells because it's YOUR right and not really a human after all.  Take the easy way out because before 22 weeks there is no pain or thought process.  Bullshit.  A life unborn can haunt for a lifetime.  

That's an interesting story, and one to think about.

I have a question though, and this is genuinely honest - not to be snarky or an ass or anything...

Do you think its even just a little bit possible that the anguish she feels over her abortion has been, in any small part, generated or exacerbated by the influence of peers who act like and believe that abortion is murder and/or the belief that God (allegedly) condemns it as a sin (possibly a mortal one)?
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: FreeBorn on February 17, 2011, 07:42:06 PM
Another anecdote for you wilbur, then I'm done with you and this tired debate with people like you.  This story will address your specific point.

My sister had a son with her first husband.  A second son with her second husband, worked a full time job as an EMT and did her very best to be a good mother and wife.  It was hard, damn hard.  Both of those babies nearly killed her because she was physically too small to carry them to term.
She was ultimately an unhappy person and she began to drink.  Her marriage was going down fast and she found herself pregnant for the 3rd time.  In her mind, at the time, she justified the abortion as the right thing to do.  She was medically warned not to get pregnant, her husband was divorcing her and she knew she would never handle 3 young ones on her own.  Well, her life went to shit.  Lost both sons to their fathers and lived in the bottle for 15 years.
Last February she was diagnosed with lung cancer and pronounced terminal.  I spent many nights with her, talking about the end, her life and what she would do over given the chance.  She had 2 concerns.  Leaving my parents with the hurt her death would bring and facing GOD over that abortion.  She silently, all of the time since the abortion, grieved for that child. 
So yeah, maybe your damn statistic is correct.  But it's just that, a freaking number.  It doesn't answer the emotion, pain or regret that many of those women feel. And just maybe, if someone did a study concerning alcohol abuse and the cause, just maybe more than a few women would say that that procedure haunted them all of their days and helped fuel terrible decisions there after.  My sis felt beyond redemption.  And people like YOU encourage the idea that it's ok to rid yourself of a clump of cells because it's YOUR right and not really a human after all.  Take the easy way out because before 22 weeks there is no pain or thought process.  Bullshit.  A life unborn can haunt for a lifetime. 
Not being female I cannot offer an opinion of personal experience concerning abortion. My two daughters were both wrought from extensive fertility enhancement administered to my ex wife, they were very hard won pregnancies and I wouldn't trade the universe for my girls. My second wife (to whom I am currently married) lost a son aged four months when first married, 21 years ago. My mom's best friend also lost an infant son about the same age forty years ago. My Grandmother had nine children, one was dropped accidentally on his head aged one year in the 1930's by a baby sitter. To that I can attest the pain NEVER goes away, whenever the subject came up, mentioned in a movie on t.v. etc, it showed on their faces, even my Grandmother in the 1980's more than fifty years after the death of her one year old it still hurt her like a punch to the gut if the subject came up.

I know two different women who have each had an abortion but neither of them knows that I know this. Just like the others who lost living children, many years after still it is the same with them. If the subject comes up you can see it on their faces, like they have just taken a knife to the ribs.

I simply cannot understand how one human being can deliberately end the life of another but I do know that they will most certainly come to regret it forever after.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Gina on February 17, 2011, 08:33:38 PM
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I simply cannot understand how one human being can deliberately end the life of another but I do know that they will most certainly come to regret it forever after.

Yes, yes they do.   :(
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: FreeBorn on February 17, 2011, 09:14:48 PM
"Yep it's human. But so what"?

An incredibly profound statement. One no doubt shared by many like minded personages, enough to fill a vast board room seated elbow to elbow around a grand conference table. Mao Zedong, Adolph Hitler, Pol Pot, Josef Stalin, Margaret Sanger, Bill Gates Sr., Jared Loughner, Timothy McVeigh, Charles Manson, Heinrich Himmler, Saddam Hussein, Slobidon Milosevic, Kim Il Sung, Josef Tito, Idi Amin, Ghengis Khan, Poppa Doc Duvalier, Jim Jones, Gloria Feldt...

And a packed hallway for lack of seats.

Gee, I wonder what the topic of conversation would be ???
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 18, 2011, 12:35:55 AM
"Yep it's human. But so what"?

An incredibly profound statement. One no doubt shared by many like minded personages, enough to fill a vast board room seated elbow to elbow around a grand conference table. Mao Zedong, Adolph Hitler, Pol Pot, Josef Stalin, Margaret Sanger, Bill Gates Sr., Jared Loughner, Timothy McVeigh, Charles Manson, Heinrich Himmler, Saddam Hussein, Slobidon Milosevic, Kim Il Sung, Josef Tito, Idi Amin, Ghengis Khan, Poppa Doc Duvalier, Jim Jones, Gloria Feldt...

And a packed hallway for lack of seats.

Gee, I wonder what the topic of conversation would be ???

Oh good grief man, have you read nothing in this thread?

If I found myself at such a table, I'd pose the question, "Who else affirms the moral value of beings with minds, like I do?".  How many do you guess would raise their hands?

Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: FreeBorn on February 18, 2011, 01:18:55 AM
It's always the same tripe with those of your stripe, agitate, agitate, agitate...

For crying out loud man, go buy yourself a fishing rod, begin a stamp collection, maybe even Gasp find a girl to encounter life and love with.

Just sayin'...

Change your shorts once in awhile. You might find that to be nice.

Engaging in meaningful discourse is always enlightening but there comes a time when the nurse gazes up at the clock and calls it.
 :beathorse:
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Gina on February 18, 2011, 10:44:19 AM
It's always the same tripe with those of your stripe, agitate, agitate, agitate...

For crying out loud man, go buy yourself a fishing rod, begin a stamp collection, maybe even Gasp find a girl to encounter life and love with.

Just sayin'...

Change your shorts once in awhile. You might find that to be nice.

Engaging in meaningful discourse is always enlightening but there comes a time when the nurse gazes up at the clock and calls it. :beathorse:



 :lmao:
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: ConservativeMobster on February 18, 2011, 11:16:16 AM
Yeppers, I'm done. Thank you wasp and all who participated, good discussion and nope, haven't changed my mind.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: debk on February 18, 2011, 11:24:34 AM
I have been following this thread, though have not commented in it....as they are almost always the same discourse.

The one who believes in abortion, is usually a man and either does not have children, or if he does, the mother of his children had no problems getting pregnant, there were no complications during the pregnancy and has healthy children.

If he has no children....he has absolutely no concept of what he's debating. Oh, he's very capable of writing every "fact", discussion, or argument he's ever heard in favor of abortion.

I could look up how to repair a car engine, repeat it as fact...and still not have a clue how to actually repair a car engine. While I might "appear" to be knowledgeable about engine repair...I know I don't have a clue.

The pro-abortion man - particularly a relatively young one - is truly just as clueless about when does life begin, when is a baby "real" , etc.

Reading his "oh so knowledgeable" comments about abortive miscarriages, reflects his cluelessness. He obviously has never been associated with anyone who has miscarried a "lump of nothing but cells and bits of tissue" and seen firsthand the devastating anguish the parents go through afterwards. Particularly to a couple that it happens to again, and again, and again.  

As always, a lot of time, energy and emotion expended towards someone who is not willing to hear because they already know it all.  :(
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Gina on February 18, 2011, 11:29:30 AM
I have been following this thread, though have not commented in it....as they are almost always the same discourse.

The one who believes in abortion, is usually a man and either does not have children, or if he does, the mother of his children had no problems getting pregnant, there were no complications during the pregnancy and has healthy children.

If he has no children....he has absolutely no concept of what he's debating. Oh, he's very capable of writing every "fact", discussion, or argument he's ever heard in favor of abortion.

I could look up how to repair a car engine, repeat it as fact...and still not have a clue how to actually repair a car engine. While I might "appear" to be knowledgeable about engine repair...I know I don't have a clue.

The pro-abortion man - particularly a relatively young one - is truly just as clueless about when does life begin, when is a baby "real" , etc.

Reading his "oh so knowledgeable" comments about abortive miscarriages, reflects his cluelessness. He obviously has never been associated with anyone who has miscarried a "lump of nothing but cells and bits of tissue" and seen firsthand the devastating anguish the parents go through afterwards. Particularly to a couple that it happens to again, and again, and again.  

As always, a lot of time, energy and emotion expended towards someone who is not willing to hear because they already know it all.  :(

that says it all!  thank you!
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Airwolf on February 18, 2011, 05:52:07 PM
So after 13 pages does anyone else here get the feeling Wilbur is about as
sharp as a bag of wet mice ?
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Gina on February 19, 2011, 07:11:05 AM
So after 13 pages does anyone else here get the feeling Wilbur is about as
sharp as a bag of wet mice ?

He's smart.  I just don't think he has had any real life experience (kids) to really get it yet.  He will though, one day.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: vesta111 on February 19, 2011, 08:01:57 AM
So after 13 pages does anyone else here get the feeling Wilbur is about as
sharp as a bag of wet mice ?

All the money and time we have spent on sex education it still amazes me the totally ignorant of the process of life grown men have of the subject.

What does sex education teach kids today, is it how to wear a condom, how to feel OK if an older man comes on to them.??   How to protect against STD's is important but other then that what the hell do they know about reproduction in the Female that THEY are responsible for.

No female gets herself pregnant, but what do females in school that are sexually active know about what is happening in their body's pregnant or not.

Come 8 Th grade I have no problem with both sexes attending a class together and watching medical  films about how humans get to earth,
 and how life comes about. There are thousands of films that document life from step one, the sperm attacking the egg.  

I went into detail with Wilber as he comes across as not  having any knowledge of why woman bleed once a month---Unfortunately there are adult woman that have no idea why or for reason this happens.

  Ask a 14 year old girl why she gets her period and most likely she will tell you that it means she is not pregnant.  Ask her what the purpose of blood collecting in her uterus was for and she will have a garbled explanation.  Now if you ask a 14 year old boy the same question,  all he knows is that if his girlfriend has no period then SHE has a problem.

 There are some organizations that would head for court to halt these films from being shown in public schools.   To educate children that woman get pregnant because of the male and have humans living in their belly is, well not in line with their thinking or helps them keep their jobs.
 
This so called sex education is no more then a guide to self pleasure with the opposite sex or same sex., or with themselves.

In a way for any person in this country old enough to reproduce and have no idea what is going on knowing only  that the act feels really good--this is a crime.  

Today sex education is only to teach kids to have sex for their own feel good time and for their own benefit, they are not to pleasure others, they are to pleasure only themselves.  No emotional ties just Anamal lust.

Quite a mess here.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Splashdown on February 19, 2011, 10:16:27 AM
Vesta, that might be the best post you've ever made.

Hi-5.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Habsfan on February 19, 2011, 11:43:30 PM
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Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Airwolf on February 20, 2011, 01:49:15 PM
Interesting. Three days go by and wilburs not here to stick up for is position and about that time Stinky (The clown to most of us) the human houseplant over at DU tells his friends he has a mole here at CC. either way there is no way to defend the evil that he thinks is ok just because its just a clump of cells.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: rubliw on February 20, 2011, 04:20:22 PM
Interesting. Three days go by and wilburs not here to stick up for is position and about that time Stinky (The clown to most of us) the human houseplant over at DU tells his friends he has a mole here at CC.

Huh? I would continue to defend my position, but there really arent any new posts to really reply too anymore.   I don't know who Stinky is (I don't frequent DU), so don't know what to tell you about all that nonsense.  Not even sure what a forum "mole" is supposed to be..

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either way there is no way to defend the evil that he thinks is ok just because its just a clump of cells.

Actually, I have never once uttered the phrase, "clump of cells".   That's all you guys.   I care about minds.  Minds are made by "clumps of cells".  So I care about "clumps of cells'  if they have or produce minds. 

"Clumps of cells" is a rather uninformative and silly way to put it.
Title: Re: Horrible
Post by: Airwolf on February 20, 2011, 08:53:56 PM
Looks like Stinkys back.