If it isn’t “human life,” then what is it? Chromosomally, it is human; it can’t very well be anything else. Cecil’s statement that human life begins at conception is correct.
RR
Actually, we could as well take into consideration this other straight dope article recently published about foundlings on doorsteps…I’m AM surprised that Cecil didn’t make the connection between this phenomenon and patriarchal insistence on men’s control of women’s bodies…Perhaps i really should have taken him to task for this instead…
“Italy has even brought back a high-tech version of the foundling wheel at Casilino Polyclinic hospital in Rome, where mothers can drop off unwanted infants using an ATM-like booth. Not a pleasant thing to contemplate, but it sure beats the Dumpster.”
…because this is the ugly alternative to women’s unalienable right to her own reproductive functions. Here’s a snippet from ‘The Women’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets’, by Barbara G. Walker…
“The ancients generally viewed abortion as a woman’s private buisiness, in which no man had any right to interfere. As Hartley put it, “Each woman must be free to make her own choice; no man may safely decide for her; she must give life gladly to be able to give it well.”
But with the rise of patriarchal religions, especially among the Greeks, came a belief that a father’s semen conveyed the soul to the fetus. Men feared for the safety of any of their body effluvia, lest scorcery might damage the living man by damaging what was once a part of him. St. Thomas Aquinas held this same opinion, since he asserted that semen was the vehicle of souls. It was a logical extension of this notion that abortion should be outlawed, not because it was dangerous to women, but because it was thought (magically) dangerous to men.”
And; “The church interpreted the fable of Genesis as God’s mandate to compel women to bear as many children as possible, even at the cost of the children’s or the mother’s physical health and welfare. Men refused to deal with the problem of over-production, and women were forbidden to do so, by the church’s tradition.”
But Cecil does not even mention the lack of birth control or safe abortion alternatives as being the cause of abandoned babies, instead, he says;
“Why were — are — kids abandoned? Mostly for the reasons you’d expect — poverty and illegitimacy.”
…so basically he says that it’s because pregnant welfare teenagers can’t find a man to marry.
Geez…now that i think of it…this is the real mysogynistic slap in the face.
—Cecil?
I thought i should just go ahead and start a new thread with this last post…i’ts not gonna get read here, and i think it should be. Bear with me, please. I’m not very computer savvy.
Shiny!
After all is said and done, you are the reason we’re all here, and being acknowledged is a bit of a warm fuzzy for us, the teeming [del]minions[/del] millions .