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markomalley
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From Campus Reform:
Several students at George Mason University (GMU) signed a petition on Wednesday demanding lawmakers legalize “fourth trimester” abortions.
The petition, which was circulated on GMU’s flagship campus in Fairfax, VA., just outside Washington D.C., by Media Research Center reporter Dan Joseph said it was aimed at sending “a message to our lawmakers that women have the right to choose what to do with their bodies and babies” even “after their pregnancies.”
“If you don’t know what fourth trimester is, it’s after the baby is already born,” Joseph added in a video showing him collect the signatures.
(video at link)
This is reminiscent of MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry’s comments about when a baby is alive (video at link):
Noting the worldwide excitement surrounding Kate Middleton’s pregnancy, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry compared the hoopla surrounding the British royal birth to Texas abortion politics, and then offered her own definition of viability:
“When does life begin? I submit the answer depends an awful lot on the feeling of the parents. A powerful feeling – but not science,” Harris-Perry said on her show Sunday. “The problem is that many of our policymakers want to base sweeping laws on those feelings.”
What I am curious about is if these callous attitudes are consciously shaped by a cogent philosophy, like the one espoused by Australian ethicist Peter Sanger:
Even more radical, Singer suggests that since preference is influenced by self-awareness, babies should not be considered “persons” until they are one month old. Before that time, parents and their doctors should be free to kill a baby if, for instance, it has Down’s syndrome and the parents don’t wish to raise it.
*(NB: just because I say a philosophy is cogent, doesn’t mean I approve of it…)
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Or if they have even thought through their positions on the matter and are just reacting instinctively based upon buzzwords that were programmed into their consciousnesses.
Several students at George Mason University (GMU) signed a petition on Wednesday demanding lawmakers legalize “fourth trimester” abortions.
The petition, which was circulated on GMU’s flagship campus in Fairfax, VA., just outside Washington D.C., by Media Research Center reporter Dan Joseph said it was aimed at sending “a message to our lawmakers that women have the right to choose what to do with their bodies and babies” even “after their pregnancies.”
“If you don’t know what fourth trimester is, it’s after the baby is already born,” Joseph added in a video showing him collect the signatures.
(video at link)
This is reminiscent of MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry’s comments about when a baby is alive (video at link):
Noting the worldwide excitement surrounding Kate Middleton’s pregnancy, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry compared the hoopla surrounding the British royal birth to Texas abortion politics, and then offered her own definition of viability:
“When does life begin? I submit the answer depends an awful lot on the feeling of the parents. A powerful feeling – but not science,” Harris-Perry said on her show Sunday. “The problem is that many of our policymakers want to base sweeping laws on those feelings.”
What I am curious about is if these callous attitudes are consciously shaped by a cogent philosophy, like the one espoused by Australian ethicist Peter Sanger:
Even more radical, Singer suggests that since preference is influenced by self-awareness, babies should not be considered “persons” until they are one month old. Before that time, parents and their doctors should be free to kill a baby if, for instance, it has Down’s syndrome and the parents don’t wish to raise it.
*(NB: just because I say a philosophy is cogent, doesn’t mean I approve of it…)
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Or if they have even thought through their positions on the matter and are just reacting instinctively based upon buzzwords that were programmed into their consciousnesses.
