Abortion...
Had a few e-mails back and forth with Peter from Uni about abortion/stem cell research, for the lack of anything else decent to say(and I'm soooo knackered from doing my Formal Methods assignment all day in Uni) :
When is a human a human? That is the question, and one person will answer it differently to another. But if a human is a human at conception, then there's no need to proceed with any further moral quandaries, because to terminate it is Murder. That's my view. It reminds me of a bit from Minority report (by P K Dick), this is from a review of the Film online:
"An early scene in the movie displays the thematic importance of free will. Danny Witwer (played by Colin Farrell), a Justice Department official formally inspecting Precrime, raises the "legalistic drawback to Precrime methodology . . . .[W]e are arresting individuals who have broken no law." Anderton responds by rolling a ball across a table, which Witwer catches before it can hit the floor. When Anderton asks Witwer why he caught the ball, the response is that otherwise it would fall to the floor. Witwer smiles, getting the intended analogy, which Anderton underscores: "The fact that you prevented it from happening doesn't change the fact that it was going to happen.""
I think that's a silly illustration but it proves a point, you've prevented the ball (baby?) dropping (pardon the pun), the fact that you value the baby only once it has dropped is no reason to value it's potential (i.e. it's "rolling" state) any less, "The fact that you prevented it from happening doesn't change the fact that it was going to happen.", and in this case that is science fact, not fiction- the baby will be born, unless prevented- the ball started "rolling" at conception...John
When is a human a human? That is the question, and one person will answer it differently to another. But if a human is a human at conception, then there's no need to proceed with any further moral quandaries, because to terminate it is Murder. That's my view. It reminds me of a bit from Minority report (by P K Dick), this is from a review of the Film online:
"An early scene in the movie displays the thematic importance of free will. Danny Witwer (played by Colin Farrell), a Justice Department official formally inspecting Precrime, raises the "legalistic drawback to Precrime methodology . . . .[W]e are arresting individuals who have broken no law." Anderton responds by rolling a ball across a table, which Witwer catches before it can hit the floor. When Anderton asks Witwer why he caught the ball, the response is that otherwise it would fall to the floor. Witwer smiles, getting the intended analogy, which Anderton underscores: "The fact that you prevented it from happening doesn't change the fact that it was going to happen.""
I think that's a silly illustration but it proves a point, you've prevented the ball (baby?) dropping (pardon the pun), the fact that you value the baby only once it has dropped is no reason to value it's potential (i.e. it's "rolling" state) any less, "The fact that you prevented it from happening doesn't change the fact that it was going to happen.", and in this case that is science fact, not fiction- the baby will be born, unless prevented- the ball started "rolling" at conception...John
posted by John Doran-Armstrong at 8:01 PM
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