Do the States have the right to be wrong?

[fizzyland]

It's a question that has perplexed philosophers, theologians and scientists for thousands of years

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[sgiffy]

Pythagorean Greeks, early Christian church fathers, Talmudic rabbis, Sunni and Shia thinkers, Hindu brahmin and modern bioethicists have grappled with the fundamental, ultimately unknowable, mystery: At what point in our biological development are we infused with a soul?

Baptism. Before that kill away.

[gunslnger]

So we can abort atheists? Excellent.

[sgiffy]

Sure once you develop a tool to divine the religious affiliation of fetuses and those without language.

[gunslnger]

I meant adult ones.

[sgiffy]

Only if you give them the pamphlet, wait 24 hours, and notify their parents first.

[a_new_machine]

A++ would lol again.

[gunslnger]

Deal.

[rogerdr]

Abortion after birth? Isn't that a bit like standing in the shade after the sun goes down?

[gunslnger]

Why stop at birth if ensoulment is the defining event we care about?

[ironhawke]

Only the religious care about that "phase" of life. Those who would define the issue on scientific merits would use terminology including viability to define when life "begins."

[gunslnger]

Maybe you're not paying attention to this thread very carefully.

[rogerdr]

I was making fun of your comment, since "abortion", by definition, is before birth. You can't abort a fetus when it's no longer a fetus.

[gunslnger]

You didn't do a very good job, since my comment was already a joke, about post-birth abortions.

[rogerdr]

Just keeping the party pumping, yo.