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Amazing stuff. National Geographic Watch the VIdeo Tell me that's not a human being.
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Thumps.... You know very well that a human being is defined by the presence of an immortal soul created by God, including reason and free will. While I may agree with you that what you have shown is a human being, physical characteristics do not a human being make. Anyone can look at the pictures and say, yep, it looks like a human being but disagree that it is one. It is the soul which makes us human, not the body. If we use physical characteristics as the determinant, we deny the God's hand in the procreation process; something I am not prepared to do.
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It is just beautiful. I wish I could see the whole program. I still think only the mother can decide for her unborn child. Elena http://wwwpianofourhands.com
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Originally posted by RZ: Thumps....
You know very well that a human being is defined by the presence of an immortal soul created by God, including reason and free will.
While I may agree with you that what you have shown is a human being, physical characteristics do not a human being make. Anyone can look at the pictures and say, yep, it looks like a human being but disagree that it is one. It is the soul which makes us human, not the body.
If we use physical characteristics as the determinant, we deny the God's hand in the procreation process; something I am not prepared to do. [/b]A much more basic definition is an animated being of human nature. There is clearly self animation (anima, zoe, soul, call it what you will), it has being, and the nature is that of a human. Your "definition" is more descriptive and presupposes God, immortality, and an imprecise expression of Aristotelian hylomorphism -- none of which is required for us to recognize a human being in utero. Edit: I suggest it is imprecise because "particular matter" is required to be informed by the human soul in classical Aristotelian metaphysics. It is not just the soul, but the human is a composite of "body and soul" -- one does not exist without the other.
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Let me rephrase that. I wish no woman felt compelled to terminate her pregnancy but she is the only person who can make that decision. And if she does, as history has shown she does regardless of legal or societal pressures, I would want her to have the safest one possible. Elena http://www.pianofourhands.com
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There is a doctor in Oklahoma, I'm told, that did several hundred abortions on post-20 week old fetuses last year.
We are rapidly closing in on that age being routinely viable.
When a viable baby is aborted, does not that mean the law should be re-visited?
After all, now you are killing something that will survive outside of the womb, and in no way can be construed as POC.
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Originally posted by EHpianist: It is just beautiful. I wish I could see the whole program.
I still think only the mother can decide for her unborn child.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by EHpianist: [QB] Let me rephrase that. I wish no woman felt compelled to terminate her pregnancy but she is the only person who can make that decision. And if she does, as history has shown she does regardless of legal or societal pressures, I would want her to have the safest one possible.
Elena http://www.pianofourhands.com Elena: I realize that we might be poles apart on the question, and I respect that. Please explain why the mother is the only one who can (that is "ought") decide for her unborn child (that is, whether to continue to live or to die). What is the difference whether the child is living inside the womb or outside of it?
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I actually do believe the law should be revised to LIMIT (not eliminate) late term abortions where the fetus would survive outside the womb. Allow late term abortions in cases of rape, incest, the health of the mother, and any major anomaly detected in the child. I have a couple of friends who have had children with severe developmental problems and both their lives and those of their children are essentially ruined. Obviously they love their children but I wonder how many of them would have terminated their pregnancy had their children been diagnosed in the womb. In some cases it is better to wonder "what if", than see your child suffering throughout his/her life. Elena http://www.pianofourhands.com
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Very Cool Thanks.
The technology is amazing. The photography, editing, music and voice are very skillful. It make me feel emotion and marvel at the mystery and unanswerable questions of life. Great production. I'd love to see the TV show.
I'd guess Ivory is posting here and using this as some type of anti-abortion tool.
But this TV show has nothing to do with religion, abortion, definition of human soul , blah blah  blah . It is just science. It's just doing a new and better job of showing what is and always has been.
Nothing has changed because of an advancement of technology or a well made TV show.
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Ivory, this is somewhat related to the late-term thing. I believe that as long as the embryo or fetus cannot survive outside the womb it is technically still part of the mother's body, not a separate being deserving its own rights. Therefore her rights as a human being override the fetus's until it can function on its own. Perhaps with medical innovations this stage will be reached earlier and earlier, that is fine by me, but an embryo without fully developed organs or brain does not have more rights than the mother which gave it life. I understand why people are against abortion morally, I [edit] am in favor of providing the choice simply for practical reasons: I don't think our society would be a better place if women had to go to a back-alley quack to end their pregnancy, and this is inevitably what happens when abortion in all its forms is outlawed. The poor are the ones that get hurt and the rich still have it done privately. Elena http://www.pianofourhands.com
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Be careful where you go, when you start to abort viable babies with developmental problems.
That is a Pandora's box one may not wish to open...
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I know, I have thought of that. It is a complicated and very loaded issue. But I look at my friends and it is just so heartbreaking. There must be some way of determining where to draw the line. Elena http://www.pianofourhands.com
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I don't think there is.
You play the cards God deals you, and you make the best life you can.
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Regarding the imaging. For those of you that have AOL the video footage there is even more impressive. Gives a lot more of the 4D imaging. Elena http://www.pianofourhands.com
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Originally posted by Jolly: ....We are rapidly closing in on that age being routinely viable ....
Whoa Jolly ... you *know* I don't debate the abortion issue. Yet, I do disagree with your use of the words "rapidly" and "routinely viable", despite the great advances in medicine. "Viability" is one narrowly defined thing but the "reality" of facing life as a mirco-premie is an entirely different matter. 20 weeks is a very much fetus IMHO.
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Originally posted by katie: Originally posted by Jolly: [b] ....We are rapidly closing in on that age being routinely viable ....
Whoa Jolly ... you *know* I don't debate the abortion issue. Yet, I do disagree with your use of the words "rapidly" and "routinely viable", despite the great advances in medicine. "Viability" is one narrowly defined thing but the "reality" of facing life as a mirco-premie is an entirely different matter. 20 weeks is a very much fetus IMHO. [/b]When I started in the biz, we used to set 7 month old preemies in the corner, watch them gasp for a few gut-wrenching hours, and then declare them. I am glad we have been able to advance beyond that. I think that the 20 week viability goal is one that will be reached. Can anyone tell me why not?
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Originally posted by EHpianist: I actually do believe the law should be revised to LIMIT (not eliminate) late term abortions where the fetus would survive outside the womb. Allow late term abortions in cases of rape, incest, the health of the mother, and any major anomaly detected in the child.
I have a couple of friends who have had children with severe developmental problems and both their lives and those of their children are essentially ruined. Obviously they love their children but I wonder how many of them would have terminated their pregnancy had their children been diagnosed in the womb.
In some cases it is better to wonder "what if", than see your child suffering throughout his/her life.
Elena http://www.pianofourhands.com In that case there is no difference between abortion, and euthenasia after failing apgars after birth. Heck, may as well euthenize at 2 years if they can't talk.
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Nothing is ever black and white. The world is in shades of grey. Elena http://www.pianofourhands.com
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