That's the difference between you and me . . . I don't (and at one time you didn't) need a "book" to determine the difference between what is "right" and what is "wrong". I think that makes me more moral than most . . . not less . . .
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As my friend Town Heretic might say, "The cluster of cells is simply a human (person) in an earlier stage of development" . . . though we agree to disagree.
I don't deny that the cells are alive . . . but they hardly rise to the accepted standard of what constitutes a "person" in my opinion.
As I already indicated ("to some extent") it doesn't absolutely have to perhaps but given that most married couples don't normally have a purely platonic relationship, then sleeping with a wife pregnant by a rapist is not my idea of an aphrodisiac, never mind the physical fact that they cannot now plan their own family and domestic lives for at least for 9 months and beyond. The most saintly husband surely cannot be expected remain stalwartly unaffected and without any form of resentment, well I probably couldn't anyway.
Agreed. Talk about being between a rock next to a hard spot! I think though the strong marriage can survive though and certainly depends on the woman's decision and the man's constitution.
I've been this merry-go-round in a much earlier thread. Genetically, the cells are human. They are not a person.
I appreciate and respect your opinion Tambora. Can you respect mine?
ideally, i would suggest that abortion should never be committed for any reason. however, i would have to choose the lesser of two evils here. i would make an exception in this case. some cases also involve incest which is more amplified. a mother may not have the psychological capacity to carry through with a pregnancy in these circumstances, let alone to raise the child properly.
Well, I simply disagree, for me and my particular least-worst-case scenario it has none of the features of a person/child that I recognise, and I don't think it contains a soul or any such thing, for me a child/person at that stage I'm talking about has yet to emerge.
. . . even if that guilt is the decision to not terminate the pregnancy? Thank you very much . . . but . . . no thanks.
Nope. Murder is the act of taking a person's life.
And thus your response is, you may kill your baby?
With extreme prejudice. :thumb:
Respect???