Posted on Jul 24, 2016
The science of abortion: When does life begin? | Just Facts
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You hear about all the science on climate change and how some refuse to accept the truth. Well, it got me to thinking about science and abortion. And how we use science to prove or disprove our ideology. The right is always accused of disregarding the findings of science when debating climate change. So do the left disregard the findings of science in the abortion discussion, or does it justify their standing. Is science the answer to all questions, God, abortion, climate change etc?
The science of abortion: When does life begin? | Just Facts
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The debate on abortion, when a life is worth defending, is far more legitimate than climate change. Until it's settled I believe that it's only fair that people who hold strong beliefs against the morality or ethics of abortion should not be forced to fund abortions. If individuals want to donate to Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics, that is their prerogative. However, it is not right to fund them using public monies.
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CPT Jack Durish
SP5 Christine Conley - Planned Parenthood subsidizes abortions on demand to those who can't afford them. Although they are precluded by law from using federal monies for this purpose, it is impossible to separate monies once they are placed in the general coffers. It would be far better if they were privately funded or the govt used those monies to fund other organizations that do not promote or subsidize abortion.
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CPT Jack Durish
SP5 Christine Conley - That's not how accounting works. Think about it. Even if you could track each and every dollar from the govt to Planned Parenthood and isolate them from dollars that came from other sources, the mere fact that govt dollars are applied to legitimate pursuits, they would be freeing other dollars to fund abortions. Thus, they would be facilitating abortions. That's why, if an organization is participating in activities that the govt is precluded from funding, they should not receive govt funding. All arguments to the contrary are pure sophistry.
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Lol, They call it climate change because Global Warming did not fit there nerative.
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I would call the scientific definition of "life" to be very narrowly focused in that article. In my opinion, the argument around abortion doesn't stem from "life" but from what we consider "human". A cow is alive but we have no problems killing it because it isn't a human. A zygote is just a collection of cells that has the potential for becoming a human. Roughly 20% of the time those cells fail at producing a successful pregnancy. Other than being able to make more cells, a zygote has zero traits you would associate with a human.
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Capt Chris McVeigh
Good thing a cow isn't a human then, your response doesn't actually change anything with my point. I wouldn't eat a human arm either, but I don't consider it be a full human.
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Maj John Bell
Capt Chris McVeigh - A human arm severed from the body is not capable of life as defined by the scientific definition, nor am I aware of and spiritual definition that would make that same claim.
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Capt Chris McVeigh
An arm is made up of living tissue correct? Therefore it is alive. From your response I gather you don't consider a living arm to be a human which just reinforces my point that being alive isn't the point of the debate.
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