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

Comments

[telemann]

I definitely like Carl Sagan's analysis of abortion, he gave both sides a fair shake in it. And btw, he came down on the side of Roe v. Wade in how to decide a point in which the state has a right to protect the unborn and protect the rights of the mother, as contradictory as that sounds.

[drcruel]

That's because Sagan was an atheist.

[fizzyland]

Now I'll have to look that up. I do know when I was younger, Cosmos was very motivating for me to get a science education so I give Carl a lot of credit for inspiring a greater sense of wonder about the vast universe we inhabit.

[eracerhead]

An appendix is a living thing. I believe that the appendix is where the soul resides, therefore we must inform each and every appendectomy candidate of this fact.

[the_rukh]

Well I haven't seen any proof against it, it must be protected!!

Imagine the horror...

[sophia_sadek]

... of all of those murdered appendices! I feel like taking a photo of one of them and parading in front of the medical center with the indignance of a flat-earth illiterate.

[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.

[rogerdr]

Since when are fetuses "separate"? One could argue for "living", but even "unique" is suspect while they are necessarily attached to their mothers. They should by rights be thought of as dependent entities unable to live separately, at least until the fuzzy time when they do become separately viable, if not 18 years old.

[foolsguinea]

Well, yeah, they are distinct genetically. They're dependent, obligate even, but they are distinct as well. But if they're not viable separately, they're not separable persons under the law; most pro-lifers don't accept that.

[anadinboy]

im an atheist who hates abortion. Both the women who have them and the doctors who perform them are getting a sick sexual thrill from the process. At the very least its a form of munchausens syndrome by proxy.

[chron_job]

The two "y"s come to mine...

either irony, or crazy

[drcruel]

>>its a form of munchausens syndrome by proxy

No, its (sic) not.