Roe v. Wade - What's happening now??

[damasa]

Originally posted by KSig RC
0.) Read snopes.com - the voltaire quote . . . not him, although it's a near-miss (not to be a nit)

Anyway here's the logic, and here's what I meant:

1.) America was founded on strong principles, principles that were truly revolutoinary for their time (and which still carry that weight today).

2.) One key premise of our founders, and the reason why we colonized this continent, was religious freedom. A necessary element of religious freedom is a government free from 'state religion'

3.) Our nation operates under a fairly strict separation of church and state (and yes, this is in the constitution for you tin foil hatters - snopes.com that one too, guys), as a result of these lofty principles

4.) Arguments for laws restricted abortion rights are usually drawn along religious lines. The reason, at the root, for this is the concept of a 'soul' - since it is impossible to dictate at what point a fertilized egg becomes a fetus becomes a human life without resorting to some sort of 'soul' concept.

therefore . . . .

5.) Laws to restrict abortion generally should be viewed as imposing a religious morality on something that doesn't carry this morality in everyone's views (religious or otherwise), and thus violate church/state separation.

So here are the alternatives:

-Impose your religious morality on others, thus pissing on the high-minded ideals of the founding of the United States of America

or

-Keep the laws like they are, then don't have an abortion if it falls outside of your morality zone.

It's pretty clear that only the second is fair, lawful, just, and intellectually sound.

Bottom line: you might be vehemently anti-abortion, and I might be vehemently anti-abortion, but there is no rational reason to impose those feelings onto others by law.

-RC
--out.

This is why RC wins at GC. You remind me of one of my old Philosophy professors. You know the bastard, he can argue any point for any stance on any given topic and always win.

Not to confuse RC with the bastard though, he just wins at GC...