Abortion = less crime?

[Stu Pidasso]

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To me there is only one meaningful reason to magically draw the line at conception. It is because you have bought into some relgious story that a soul somehow enters a zygote on the moment of the zygote's creation.

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Another meaningful reason is that conception is a safe point. Prior to conception you have an egg and sperm neither of which have a full set of chromosomes and on thier own do not constitutes a human being. At some point during or after conception a human being is created. If you want choose a point that is absolutely safe, conception is it.

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You claim that we should all get on board with playing it safe morally and going by the conception line in the sand just in case that is the gold standard for what constitutes a life. I don't agree, but you believe that I should agree with your line even though you can't prove the line yourself.

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He doesn't have to prove anything. If you draw the line at conception because it is a known safe point, than in order to push that line further you have to prove a human being does not yet exist. The further you extend that line without proof, the higher the probability a human life is being destroyed.

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Others would ask you to make the line at the husband's request for sex and you dismissed this idea as splitting hairs.

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Who are these others? I can tell you its not the Catholics.

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Why can you disregard their calling for you to come onboard with their line in order to play it safe morally, but I'm not allowed to disregard your calling for me to come on board with your line?

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As a society we have to draw the line somewhere. Hes advocating drawing at conception. You're advocating at drawing the line at birth(at least as far as I can tell). He has given a reason for his line, your response has been in so many words "don't tell me what to do, I don't really care if we kill a human being"

Stu