• James Riley
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    Actually it is up to men to control woman in some ways because women can't be happy unless they are controlled by men in some wayGregory

    Oaky-dokey. As the kids would say "Peace, out, Bro. LOL!
  • Gregory
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    Well if you like miserable women and them to stay that way, how can you say you are pro-women
  • Gregory
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    I don't know how to solve all these problems in society, but proper principles about pregnancy are essential
  • James Riley
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    I don't know how to solve all these problems in society,Gregory

    I do. Let the woman decide.

    but proper principles about pregnancy are essentialGregory

    Yep. Let the woman decide.
  • EricH
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    I'm not trying to be insulting, it sounds from your response that you do not know what a blastocyst is.

    The morning after pills - which you have stated are equivalent to murder - prevent the blastocyst from embedding in a woman's uterine wall - and thus prevents pregnancy.

    Why is preventing the blastocyst from implanting in a woman's uterus murder, but thawing out an embryo and letting the life slowly (or quickly) seep out of it acceptable. What is the difference?
  • Gregory
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    Once a zygote is formed human DNA is activated as a human being. Morning after pills have been explained to me as killing the being once it's DNA is activated and so is truly a zygote. There really wouldn't be confusion on this issues if biologists all desired to understand when DNA is activated. But the abortion people try to misword things in order to cause confusion and more abortions. There will be debate about the details as long as people don't want to see the issue with clear conscience
  • Gregory
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    Biology is not relative
  • tim wood
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    Pro-choicer Tim Wood above says that abortion is self defense, as if the child is invading the mother. This is a corrupt way of looking at itGregory

    No, fool! I was inviting you to consider an argument, which in fact is reflected in law. You may have read Roe, but you have forgotten what it said, if you ever knew in the first place.
  • James Riley
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    Biology is not relativeGregory

    Actually, it is. In fact, it is you that seems to be considering biology in relation to morality.
  • Gregory
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    You had an example that has no bearing on abortion, fool. It's like your saying you'd kill a child if he invaded your house
  • Gregory
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    We can understand biology's relation to ethics through reason, but not pro-choice sterile reason
  • tim wood
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    I referred you to Roe v. Wade, That's where you'll find the relevance.
  • Gregory
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    Self defense is not like abortion and even is Jesus used it as an example it's wrong. A person’s value is not defined by her abilities, by what she can or can’t do. The age of the being does not define whether they have the right to life. Everyone has different capabilities. A 3 year old is still developing but it has the right to life. An unborn entity always has active DNA, and it has a heart beat at 5-6 weeks, and brain waves brain waves at 5-6 weeks? You are being selective as to who is human
  • tim wood
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    Far as I am concerned you have a right to your beliefs. Corollary: you have no right to claim as fact or knowledge any belief as grounds for anything other than belief, unless you first demonstrate that they are in themselves facts and in themselves constitute knowledge.

    I find your arguments grounded in beliefs. As such, in my view, not grounds for any substantive argument.
  • Gregory
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    It's not about logic on paper but real life reality (existential reality). Hitler said Jews weren't people. The president of Poland said gays aren't people. Pro choicers are doing the same thing with a group of individuals because the littler persons are invisible to the eye without ultrasounds, etc. Everyone is a person and deserves their human rights, including life. DNA is how life is encoded. Your opinions are dangerous not just for babies's rights but for everyone's
  • tim wood
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    In a perfect world....
    Everyone is a personGregory
    For you, apparently, "Everyone" means everything, because DNA is not a person. If you're going to try to reason this out, then more care with the words that carry your reason.

    If you're not reasoning, then you're just ranting, and I could wish you and that elsewhere, because it seems to me this site is a place for reason, done as well as possible.
  • Gregory
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    It's there for everyone to understand. DNA is the activity of life. If you are disconnected to this, there is nowhere practical events won't lead you in taking away others' rights. Would you, I ask, if you had the proper know-how, perform a regular everyday abortion if you were asked?
  • James Riley
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    We can understand biology's relation to ethics through reason, but not pro-choice sterile reasonGregory

    Sure we can. I have done just that.
  • Gregory
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    Pro choice people debate when before birth a child can be aborted. All their reasonings on this are arbitrary though. No safer place should there be than in the womb, but pro-abortion folk don't even have the presence of mind to say "maybe it is a person so I won't support this". This issue can cause you to lose in life in general
  • tim wood
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    Would you, I ask, if you had the proper know-how, perform a regular everyday abortion if you were asked?Gregory
    Fair question, but imo not at all as simple of answer as may seem. If I have the proper know-how, then I am a licensed professional, and by licensure and profession presupposed to know the answers to these questions. And as a professional, my obligations under my code of professional ethics should rule. As that professional, I'm the guy that knows.

    In truth, though, I am not that professional. Many doctors perform termination of pregnancy procedures; likely more would except for a certain murderousness of some pro-lifers, and laws based in political considerations. That is, not being that professional, I am inclined to defer to professional judgment and expertise. There is no manifest reason you should care about my thinking in particular or I yours; in every case we are subject to the reasoning of those who know more. Argue, then, against them.
  • James Riley
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    All their reasonings on this are arbitrary though.Gregory

    No they are not arbitrary. It can be killed so long as it is inside the mother. Not after. That's not arbitrary. It's based on a morality that places the mother's decision making over and above the life of the baby. Two competing values: Life vs Choice. I place choice over life. You place life over choice. One is not more arbitrary than the other.

    "maybe it is a person so I won't support this"Gregory

    I say it is a person, and yet I support it anyway. The mother too is a person, and she's carrying the baby. Her house, her rules.

    This issue can cause you to lose in life in generalGregory

    Or win.
  • Gregory
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    The mother has the right and duty to be a mother and her offspring is her child not her enemy. Your reasoning is bizarre, but I can't work this out for you because people can always find ways to avoid what is for them a hard truth
  • James Riley
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    The mother has the right and duty to be a mother and her offspring is her child not her enemy. Your reasoning is bizarre, but I can't work this out for you because people can always find ways to avoid what is for them a hard truthGregory

    One need not be an enemy to rate killing. My reasoning is sound. The hard truth is killing.
  • Gregory
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    Maybe you're trying your best but I feel like the discussion has continued long enough. I don't quite understand how you can hold your position or if you can without seeing its flaw eventually, but thanks for your friendly contribution
  • EricH
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    Morning after pills have been explained to me as killing the being once it's DNA is activated and so is truly a zygote.Gregory

    You have been misinformed. Morning after pills to not destroy the blastocyte. They either prevent fertilization - OR - they prevent the blastocyte from impanting in the woman's uterus. In the former case, there is no zygote, so in your world - AFAICT - that's OK. In the later case the blastocyte gets flushed out of the woman's body by normal body processes. The woman is respectfully putting the blastocyte somewhere to die It is in this second situation that I'm trying to understand your position.

    You don't have to take my word for it. Here is an explanation by the anti-abortion American Life League

    So once again - you say you are OK with thawing out frozen embryos (which typically have several hundred cells and are more developed than the blastocyte) and letting them die. So then you should be OK with preventing the blastocyte from implanting in a woman's womb. As you put it

    Or maybe not. Perhaps you feel that the little frozen embryos are not truly human beings since they have been artificially created, and thus it's OK to destroy them? Or perhaps you feel that the little embryos are not really alive unless they are inside a woman's body, and thus again it's OK to destroy them?
  • Gregory
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    Stopping a normal process while killing the live creature is abortion. If it's outside the mother the natural process has already stopped. You're trying to force something in your reasoning and your argument is stretched out nonsense
  • Gregory
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    You're trying to dissect pregnancy with a Nazi-like mind. It's not about logic but reality. You don't understand what pregnancy even is in its essence
  • Gregory
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    People have brought up in vitro and contraception, but those aren't abortion and I'm not against those
  • Gregory
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    Pregnancy is the accepting of life within life.
  • EricH
    578
    Morning after pills have been explained to me as killing the being once it's DNA is activated and so is truly a zygote.Gregory

    You have been misinformed. Morning after pills do not destroy the blastocyst. They either prevent fertilization - OR - they prevent the blastocyst from implanting in the woman's uterus. In the former case, there is no zygote, so in your world - AFAICT - that's OK. In the later case the blastocyst gets flushed out of the woman's body by normal body processes. It is in this second situation that I'm trying to understand your position.

    You don't have to take my word for it. Here is an explanation by the anti-abortion American Life League

    So once again - you say you are OK with thawing out frozen embryos (which typically have several hundred cells and are more developed than the blastocyst) and letting them die. So then you should be OK with preventing the blastocyst from implanting in a woman's womb. From the perspective of the blastocyst/embryo it's the same thing.

    Or maybe not. There are alternate explanations. Perhaps you feel that the little frozen embryos are not truly human beings since they have been artificially created, and thus it's OK to destroy them? Or perhaps you feel that the little IVF embryos are not really alive unless they are inside a woman's body, and thus again it's OK to destroy them?
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