RandyBrian wrote:
Thank you very much for the polite and reasonable presentation. I do see your point, and agree with much of it.
Though I DO think (know) that viability starts at conception...that point being, in my opinion, when the fertilized egg attaches itself to the wall of the uterus. From that point on, the child will grow normally unless something physically is wrong, or there is outside interference. And I DO agree that this is not a religious decision. It is a human and legal and scientific one.
As for society? Society has a very VERY bad history of choosing wrong over right. Choosing injustice over justice, evil over good. Society 'decided' that women should not v**e or have control over their lives. Society 'decided' that owning another human being was perfectly fine, and normal. It was this way for thousands of years. American society upheld both until the 1860's or later. Even after, both women and b****s were regulated to second class citizen status via society 'deciding' it was the way things should be. Example abound. Ihe Inquisition. The acceptance of child labor. The witch trials. Etc. Have we not learned from those errors NOT to let society 'decide'? We are a nation of laws, not mob preference.
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I appreciate your feedback Randy, as well as the societal expose' of man's inhumanity to man through the ages. Fortunately, America's darkest periods of injustice were relatively short lived, which some would place between the ratification of the Constitution (1789) through the Emancipation Proclamation (1863), remedied only by a costly Civil War. Others would choose to vilify the country from Jamestown thru G****e F***d. However one chooses to quantify America's culpability, the human history of the strong exploiting the weak is inescapable. And there is none weaker among us than the fetus in the womb.