PubliusInfinitum
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Golly... this is such a deep question and so common at that.
Of course life, like everything else, begins at it's beginning.
The fact is human life begins at the point of conception; arguments to the contrary are nothing more than specious rationalizations, born of the desperate need to escape responsibility for ones actions; and where those rationalizations have been adhere to by the US Supreme court in one of the most spurious decisions ever handed down, it remains nothing more than a rationalization.
Arguments regarding sentience were a function of a 1960s feminist position which sought to establish a basis for this rationalization. The fact is Human beings begin at the beginning; and where one strikes to destroy the beginning of a human life, they effectively strip that embryonic human of its right to that life…
A woman has a total right to determine her own reproductive future, this is an irrefutable fact, born of the principle that it is the woman that bears the responsibility of conception… and it is THAT RESPONSIBILITY on which her right solely rests; remove from her that responsibility and you remove the foundation of her reproductive rights, strip her of her reproductive rights and you strip her of her humanity, just as she stripped her unborn child of its humanity.
The fact is that the sentience argument, once accepted, must inevitably be embraced by succeeding generations, where the natural logical extension turns to ‘quality of life,’ which will determine that those realizing given physical or mental challenges will be stripped of their humanity… which must then recognize ‘viability of life’ wherein medical care, for those determined BY OTHERS to be un-viable due to a host of arbitrary determinations will be denied… stripping them of their humanity and so on...
Some may feel that these are new fields of thought, that previous generations have never faced such enlightened puzzles; but the fact is that feminism is a function of early Progressivism… which bore the long buried and often denied catastrophes of Eugenics… A species of thought which brought the world Dr. Joseph Mengele and the shadowy figures behind the Tuskegee Experiment where enlightened medical practitioners and bureaucrats determined that it was OK to strip one human of their rights because their suffering would bring relief to the collective of the species; stripping those human beings of their right to life, thus their humanity...
The point here, is that this is nothing new; only old, long discredited species of reasoning being reborn and dressed up to suit yet another specious rationalization. Life begins at the beginning, just like everything else and anyone who says otherwise says so with no basis in reality and is unable to rest that notion upon any valid principle; with their entire basis is reasoning set upon nothing more than their desire to escape responsibility; responsibility for their right to CHOOSE to engage in behavior which inherently bears enormous responsibility, which tends to rinse the fun right out of it and where the rubber of reason, meets the road of reality, that's all we're talking about here... people wanting to have sex without having to worry about the consequences...
Of course life, like everything else, begins at it's beginning.
The fact is human life begins at the point of conception; arguments to the contrary are nothing more than specious rationalizations, born of the desperate need to escape responsibility for ones actions; and where those rationalizations have been adhere to by the US Supreme court in one of the most spurious decisions ever handed down, it remains nothing more than a rationalization.
Arguments regarding sentience were a function of a 1960s feminist position which sought to establish a basis for this rationalization. The fact is Human beings begin at the beginning; and where one strikes to destroy the beginning of a human life, they effectively strip that embryonic human of its right to that life…
A woman has a total right to determine her own reproductive future, this is an irrefutable fact, born of the principle that it is the woman that bears the responsibility of conception… and it is THAT RESPONSIBILITY on which her right solely rests; remove from her that responsibility and you remove the foundation of her reproductive rights, strip her of her reproductive rights and you strip her of her humanity, just as she stripped her unborn child of its humanity.
The fact is that the sentience argument, once accepted, must inevitably be embraced by succeeding generations, where the natural logical extension turns to ‘quality of life,’ which will determine that those realizing given physical or mental challenges will be stripped of their humanity… which must then recognize ‘viability of life’ wherein medical care, for those determined BY OTHERS to be un-viable due to a host of arbitrary determinations will be denied… stripping them of their humanity and so on...
Some may feel that these are new fields of thought, that previous generations have never faced such enlightened puzzles; but the fact is that feminism is a function of early Progressivism… which bore the long buried and often denied catastrophes of Eugenics… A species of thought which brought the world Dr. Joseph Mengele and the shadowy figures behind the Tuskegee Experiment where enlightened medical practitioners and bureaucrats determined that it was OK to strip one human of their rights because their suffering would bring relief to the collective of the species; stripping those human beings of their right to life, thus their humanity...
The point here, is that this is nothing new; only old, long discredited species of reasoning being reborn and dressed up to suit yet another specious rationalization. Life begins at the beginning, just like everything else and anyone who says otherwise says so with no basis in reality and is unable to rest that notion upon any valid principle; with their entire basis is reasoning set upon nothing more than their desire to escape responsibility; responsibility for their right to CHOOSE to engage in behavior which inherently bears enormous responsibility, which tends to rinse the fun right out of it and where the rubber of reason, meets the road of reality, that's all we're talking about here... people wanting to have sex without having to worry about the consequences...
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