It doesn't matter what the Church decide if it is not what the Bible says.
OH? Do you thing God literally sat down somewhere and personally wrote the Bible? There are
NO Religions making any such claim!! It was entirely written by humans, and it is well-known that humans are able to LIE for their own benefit. So, did you notice how Moses, claimed to be the author of a significant chunk of the Bible, created a government that put himself on top of the social heap?
Why should anything he supposedly wrote be believed?
I don't think the Church nor you can find anything in the Bible with regards to the so-called "ensoulment" or "quickening" in relation to "ensoulment". But this thread is not about the Bible. So, let's just not stray from the topic, which is the Constitution, particularly the 5th and 14th amendment.
You seem to have missed the point, there. Enough pregnant women have been killed in city-sacks across thousands of years, with their bellies ripped open, that anyone who looked could see many different sizes of embryos. Even before quickening, there was obvious growth. No one doubts plants are alive, but few plants do any moving not caused by wind (venus flytraps, for example). And since semen is also called "seed", we know that long ago they hypothesized unborn humans growing like plants. So why was quickening special enough for anti-abortion laws? According to the Church (and for centuries), ensoulment happened at that time, and we all know that it is Standard Religious Doctrine that souls are associated with Judge-able volition.
Then the Church changed its tune, claiming ensoulment happened at conception, and anti-abortion laws got changed to ban it almost entirely (when before it was mostly OK if done before quickening). We
cannot entirely ignore Religion in the Overall Abortion Debate, since many folks base their objection on Religious claims. The fact that most of the claims are unproved matters not-at-all to those folks. But what
might matter to them is an argument showing those Religion-based claims to be nonsensical, and therefore they are DISprove-able. So
here is some data about where identical twins, triplets, etc come from, days
AFTER conception. Keeping in mind the claim that souls are immune to physical events, and assuming that a zygote is associated with just one soul, where do the rest come from during the RARE event that yields multiple identical siblings? Nothing even remotely like conception happens at that time! And therefore it is nonsensical to claim that conception MUST be associated with ensoulment! You could also research human "
chimeras", and ask why a chimeric human doesn't have two souls, when that body exists as a result of two separate conceptions that joined forces, neither dying in the process. And so again it is nonsensical to claim conception MUST be associated with ensoulment.
What does NASA got to do with this abortion debate?
NASA is relevant to a Question about why quickening happens at all. Volition has
nothing to do with it! Kicking in the womb is entirely "autonomic", exists to promote bone growth, and is not limited to unborn humans (unborn rats and dogs and plenty other mammals kick in the womb, too). Therefore any claim
is suspect, that claims quickening is associated with ensoulment and volition.
Prometus was trying to argue that state proabortion law prior to Roe v Wade was enacted to protect the pregnant women and not the fetus. So, why would the State determine the stage of quickening if pregnant women, whom the State allegedly wants to protect, weren't the ones doing the quickening?
Remember what I wrote elsewhere, about the State having a vested interest in future taxpayers. Perhaps (influenced by Religious claims), the lawmakers chose quickening as a point to put the State's interests ahead of the woman's interests. And perhaps the public record of the legislative sessions that produced that law will tell you the answer to your question.
Nobody here is arguing about the merit of the common law except you. And you're making up stuffs just so you rant on about something that causes me to scratch my head ... and say, "What the heck?"
BE SPECIFIC. What stuff are you saying I made up?
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