Re: [asa] Worthy of response?

At 11:40 AM 9/4/2007, Carol or John Burgeson wrote:

> " Rather than searching for a specific time of
> "ensoulment," I'd suggest that we advocate respect for human life
> from its very start to its very end -- which means, at least, not
> taking active measures to terminate human potentiality." ~ David O
>
>As in most discussions of this nature, the devil is in the details.
>Above you said "without very good reasons" and we might debate
>endlessly about what those reasons might be. AT the end, we would
>have to agree to disagree. ~ Burgy

@ Regressives (who call themselves Progressives) have been busily
deconstructing "civilization" and attempting to take us back to our
"default setting" for many decades now. Those types of extremist
mentalities will never be found arguing on the side of caution when
it comes to questions such as these.

"Child abuse 'is the default setting' for human beings and that it is
our understanding and relationship with God that has changed
that." http://tinyurl.com/2sp4kv

*
Politically Correct Death: Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights
by
<http://www.amazon.com/Politically-Correct-Death-Answering-Arguments/dp//exec/obidos/search-handle-url/104-9878278-9041519?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Francis%20J.%20Beckwith>Francis
J.
<http://www.amazon.com/Politically-Correct-Death-Answering-Arguments/dp//exec/obidos/search-handle-url/104-9878278-9041519?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Francis%20J.%20Beckwith>Beckwith
http://www.amazon.com/Politically-Correct-Death-Answering-Arguments/dp/0801010500

Reviewer 10/24/2001 Excerpted:

Beckwith evaluates MANY abortion rights arguments:

Why don't pro-lifers adopt the babies they don't want aborted?
Argument from 'no one knows when life begins,' Argument from privacy,
Argument from the dangers of illegal abortion, argument from rape and
incest and many of the others. This will help you in discussing the
issue with other people, responding to newspaper article and even
knowing how to critique professional philosophers that hold to the
abortion rights position.

Beckwith also argues for the full humanity of the unborn. The
pro-life position that Beckwith defends is as follows:

1. The unborn entity, from the moment of conception, is fully human.
2. It is prima facie wrong to kill an entity which is fully human.
3. Almost every act of abortion is intended to kill the unborn
entity, an entity which is fully human.
4. Therefore, almost every act of abortion is prima facie wrong.
(Page 12)

[snip]

Reviewer 8/28/2001 Excerpt:

"...After this, the real reason this book is set apart from other
books, comes into focus. He argues against those who would argue that
abortion is justified even if the unborn child was a person with a
full right to life. He does this with his 9 point rebuttal that
leaves you absolutely sure that the pro-life side is correct." [snip]

~ Janice ... who stands corrected by lain, who just now informed me
that my posts don't induce anxiety in him - merely "anger". Maybe
that's because another one of them made it past his "filter" and he
was FORCED to read it. Hahahahaha

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Received on Tue Sep 4 13:29:08 2007