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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Do states have the right to legislate science?

[sophia_sadek]

It seems like the state legislature is trying to upstage the Vatican in its interference with a definition that should be based on reason rather than despotic authority. My personal favorite definition of human life is that it starts at the moment that the person achieves a measure of reason. By that definition, Right-to-Lifers would not qualify.

[fizzyland]

I just have problem fathoming how the Republicans in Missouri have taken it upon themselves to define when life begins(for legal and civil purposes) and yet again have put obstacles in the way for women to obtain a legal abortion without being harassed or given propaganda.

[foolsguinea]

I'm from Missouri, I live in Mo., I voted for Jay Nixon.

I am willing to work with people with widely different ideas on abortion; I don't like treating it as the great ideological divide, because it's not, & pragmatically we can't afford for it to be.

So, this bothers me more than it probably should. But does it.

This is so stupid. First off, if you mean fertilization, say fertilization. But of course if you say "fertilization," you might get a mental image of an already living spermatozoon joining an already living ovum. So it's more politically useful to say, "life begins at conception," which is actually not true, but what they're really saying is, "life begins at fucking." This is the line of the anti-contraception lobby here.

We can survive this, but right now I want to punch something.