Coyote:
This is a thread on a CATHOLIC Board. The Teaching of the Catholic Church is taken as proven by the sponsors of the board and gy most of the members. If you don’t like that, there are Secular Boards, such as Democratic Underground, where most of the people will agree with you, where most of us aren’t allowed to express our opinions as you’ve been allowed to do here.
You are making some mistaken assumptions about me. I am Catholic. You can call me CINO, CAFCATH, Liberal, whatever. Fact is, you don’t know what I beleive.
So, after today I am no longer to express opinions that are contrary or perceived as contrary to orthodox Catholicism as defined by YOU and those that think like YOU? Have you just granted me some special dispensation to express my onpion this ONE time?
As other poster have pointed out, there are SCIENTIFIC arguments for the humanity of the baby in the uterus. As several of us have illustrated, there are NON-Religious PHILOSOPHICAL arguments for the humanity of the baby in the uterus. And, with the exception of the reasoning around Roe v. Wade, there are legal arguments for accepting the humanity of the baby in the uterus, because you can’t disprove it, at least not without disproving the humanity of people we generally acknowledge to be human.
You can claim that you absolutely must prove the baby in the uterus to be human beyond all doubt before you will accept it as human. But, As one poster pointed out, if you took that attitude about firing into a bush because you thought there were birds and not a human being there, you could still be liable for MANSLAUGHTER.
I’m pretty sure that NO WHERE on this site have I definitively expressed my positon on abortion. YOU are mistakenly lumping me into a group I never claimed to belong to. Remember what they say about making assumptions.
In Christ, Michael