Re: The bible does not condemn abortion [W:437]
So if the Green Bay Packers murder the Dallas Cowboys, that will be in the legal sense? Words can have multiple meanings and multiple uses.
But the reality is that millions of people view the sanctity of life as sacred and worth protecting from day 1. My rebuttal was aimed at the fallacy that abortion is universally accepted.
Your assessment is not inaccurate, but it is incomplete. If the men who wrote and signed the Declaration of Independence were to use that document to justify separation from the United Kingdom, wouldn't it have to be accurate? If the document was not accurate, then the basis for their revolution would not be established.
And just how would you produce such evidence? How many Einsteins were killed through abortion? How could we possibly know. For all we know the next paradigm shifting super genius died in the womb. Or, in the same vane, the next Hitler died in the womb. It is impossible to know.
I've already stated in my last post about the "metaphorical use" of the word or term 'murder' isn't uncommon. But nobody would see bodies laying all over the ground after the football game, would they? So common sense tells us that any person who uses a legal term like "murder" to describe some sporting event or competition event of any kind, which doesn't actually involve people or a person being murdered (suffer the loss of life by the hands of another) - is metaphorical. But what that word implies is that one football team imposed statistical harm to the other. That's not rocket science.
You had a very specific meaning in mind when you used the term 'murder' and 'abortion' in the same sentences. You were referring to an illegal form of death perpetrated by one person on another. That is simply not true. Abortion in this nation is not murder when performed within the boundaries of the law.
So when the rubber meets the road and the
legal term "murder" is used to describe the act abortion, there is no metaphorical use of the word, murder, which can apply to an abortion. That would come from someone who is 100% incorrect when they use that term to describe the act of abortion. Legal factors can be involved in some situations where an actual murder is involved in the death of a fetus. Such events will fall under the Unborn Victims Act, which says that during the commission of a crime, a fetus death incurs, "it is murder".
I love being able to express opinions, don't you? And so far your comments on this topic have been more within the realm of opinion - not fact.
You can't predict, nor has anybody in the history of humankind, been able to predict what the intellect or role a future born child might grow to be. It's impossible to know. You can't assume what the future will be if something never comes into existence in the first place. It doesn't appear that we have a shortage of people who have the ability to help humanity move forward. There's no evidence of a shortage of every other possible human talent that we all benefit from.
Cloning would be one of the ultimate tests to see if a Hitler or Ted Bundy could be identically cloned to have the same behaviors as did the original. The chances of a clone of one of the most murderous of human beings ever born, being identical in mind, intellect, and behaviors is slim to none. There's more to how we come to be than just via DNA.
The "sanctity of life" or, if you prefer, the "right to life" doesn't exist within our judicial system. If it did there'd be no executions, lethal force by law enforcements, men and women sent into battle conditions, etc.
If you believe in the sanctity of life or the right to life - the don't participate in encouraging your sex partner to have an abortion...or have a relationship with a woman who believe that women should have the legal right to have abortions. It's that simple.
