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Picking the girl does not negate the right to life of the fertilized ovum, anymore than picking the girl over an elderly woman weighing only a little more negates her “personhood”. All efforts should be made to save every life.

You’re in a fertility clinic on the eighth floor and you hear the fire alarm ringing. You’re in a lab where there is refrigerator that you know holds forty recently fertilized human ovum. There is also the four-year-old daughter of one of the lab technicians visiting her dad on a “bring your daughter work” field trip.

The flames are rapidly working their way down the corridor. The young girl is crying and asking you to help her. You know that you can carry the refrigerator or you can carry the girl but not both and still make it to safety.

Do you pick up the girl or do you pick up the refrigerator? Forty versus one, which do you choose?

I am not actually looking for anyone’s answer here, but this was the question that sealed my moral outlook on the question.

Fortunately, KTK already has an excellent explanation of the important matters: http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/?page_id=42

I will say only that I am not at all impressed with the vacuous, ignorant, uninformed non-arguments of someone who knows so little about the topic he imagines he is addressing that he can’t even be bothered to spell the person’s name – that is, Terri Schiavo – correctly.

If anyone wants to know my own thoughts about that whole business, go to this link. Scan down past the first few posts there, which merely contain references to earlier ones.

If they are so effective, why is so many unwanted pregancies?

(2) So, another neat invention are these things called “nursing homing”. Actually, they kinda suck, but not as much as turning one’s own home into a hospice. As to missing the point, living in somebody’s house is not exactly similar to living in their body.

Remember it may be you stuck in a nursing home someday because your children adopted your attitude. Yes, a pregnancy is over in a mere 9 months, an infirm parent living in your home is indefinite.

(3) Ask somebody 50 years ago if they though those uppity blacks would be allowed to share our drinking fountains… No, using the insanity of the past doesn’t even pass the milk test. By the way, exactly how many unwanted euthenizations have their been?

Comparing the past struggle for black civil rights to abortion is rather ironic considering abortion takes away the right to life of an unborn child. Not to mention this would be just as offensive to blacks as comparing their past struggle to homosexuals demanding the right to “marry”.

(4) Terry Shiavo anyone? HAHAHAHAHA!! Let’s see, she had no living will, the meager evidence showed that she would have supported the euthanization, the drooling husk of her body wasn’t a person anyway, and the vindictive family hated her husband and had a financial incentive to oppose everything he did. Oh, tell another one!

Awful. The meager evidence? Their was no evidence except for the word of a man who fathered another child while still married, and yet still wanted to claim guardianship to her. A man so full of spite he was willing to starve his devout Catholic wife to death rather than easily relinqish care to her parents. Just in RoevWade, yet again we have a judge determining the right to life.

Exceptions for the health of the woman are so subjective. Any time a woman is pregnant, her life is at risk. I have two friends who ended up pretty close to death as a result of pregnancy and delivery – one friend had a close call right before the baby was born and then ended up in ICU a week later from an entirely different complication. I am terrified by the notion of a person like me (who is under greater risk) being told to go through with a pregnancy just because the hospital staff is feeling pressured to reduce the number of approved abortions.

(2) So, another neat invention are these things called “nursing homing”. Actually, they kinda suck, but not as much as turning one’s own home into a hospice. As to missing the point, living in somebody’s house is not exactly similar to living in their body.

(3) Ask somebody 50 years ago if they though those uppity blacks would be allowed to share our drinking fountains… No, using the insanity of the past doesn’t even pass the milk test. By the way, exactly how many unwanted euthenizations have their been?

(4) Terry Shiavo anyone? HAHAHAHAHA!! Let’s see, she had no living will, the meager evidence showed that she would have supported the euthanization, the drooling husk of her body wasn’t a person anyway, and the vindictive family hated her husband and had a financial incentive to oppose everything he did. Oh, tell another one!

Its not “above my pay scale” to tell that picture is not a “clump of cells”.

“(1) Elderly parents can’t exactly come as a surprise. Heck, most of us knew about our parents ever since we could remember!”

Last I checked, when you have sexual relations there is almost always the possibility of impregnation (unless one or the other is sterile).

“(2) Last I heard, it wasn’t common for parents, elderly or otherwise, to take up residence in one’s abdomen. While it is slightly more common for them to use a child’s blood supply, that’s still pretty rare.”

You miss the point. Whether the unborn child resides in womb, or the elderly parent has to move into the daughter’s house, either way it is an inconvenience to her and they must be eliminated.

“(3) There doesn’t seem to be any large political lobby that wants to restrict which options a child of elderly parents can legally use to care for those parents. In fact, we have this thing called “Social Security”, which is a form of nation-wide insurance specifically designed to partially cover the economic burden that elderly parents put on their children.”

Exactly, euthanasia is now a legal option due to judicial activism and a large political lobby has not formed yet to try and restrict its use. As you state, SS only partially covers the economic burden and this situation has only become worse due to the aging of baby boomers. Don’t think it can happen? Ask someone 50 years ago if they would believe we could murder almost 50 million unborn children.

“(4) I don’t think there are any known cases of fetuses expressing any opinions about the financial burdens they place on their parents…”

That is why abortion is so evil, it is the murder of innocent children THAT ARE UNABLE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES.

“On the other hand, there are these neat things called “living wills”, which allow an infirm elderly parent to participate in the decision of what to do with them when they become a burden. Now, even though any decision by the parent to choose euthenasia must be quite explicit, there are lots of places that do restrict the parents’ choices about how to affect their children.”

Euthanasia has now been legalized and the decision of the family caretaker can now trump any living wills, if they even exist. Terry Shiavo anyone?