On Apr 25, 2005, at 7:21 PM, JDG wrote: > At 09:03 PM 4/24/2005 -0700, Dave Land wrote: >> On Apr 24, 2005, at 6:50 PM, JDG wrote: >>> >>> To question at hand is whether it is moral to kill a [group of cells] >>> after conception. There are two possible arguments in favor of >>> this: >>> 1) The [group of cells] is not human life. >>> 2) It is acceptable to kill some human lives >> >> Do we care about births, or do we care about lives? > > I presume you care about the former????
Both, actually, though I wonder about the question. I am a father of two children. One is alive. One died of brain cancer, as I have mentioned here before, after my wife and I spent six months of our lives with him, roughly 24 hours a day throughout his illness. Ultimately, my first-born son died in the arms of my wife and me. So that's part of what informs my ideas about the value of life, how about you? >> We could continue to try to find an invisible line or we could >> concentrate on the value of every human life, > > Unless I am wrong, you are opposed to the above, are you not? I prefer the latter. Why am I getting the feeling that your questions are not entirely sincere? >> including the millions of >> infants and children who die every year due to lack of access to >> prenatal, perinatal and early childhood care. How is it that people >> who >> are so quick to insist that every pregnancy result in a birth are so >> quick to criticize and cut programs that would ensure that the births >> they claim to care so much about result in healthy lives? > > I know that this is a common cliche - but name one person who believes > the above. I wrote it. As long as we're giving orders, respond to it in substance and quit side-stepping. Dave _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
