Re:Court OKs child porn prosecution of minors distributing p...
by dcow on Friday September 15, 2017 @10:46PM
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I agree. And that's part of the point. If we could scientifically agree on definition of human life, it would be way easier to navigate the abortion topic. But since we can't, it's currently entirely a social issue. The reason I didn't want to group abortion with CP under "silly socially issues" is that I'm still holding out on us being able to eventually understand our own humanity. And when we do, it may shed light on an agreeable framework under which to legislate termination of a fetus.
Those questions you pose is not really of scientific domain - they are actually equivalent reformulation of the religious question when/where "soul" is created (equivalence of the "soul" and "human" questions is established by the religious dogma that only humans have "soul"). Science has Cro-Magnons, Neanderthals, Australopithecus, etc... It is the question of religion domain whether Neanderthals or our common ancestors all the way to ancient apes were "humans"/"had soul". If notion of "soul" exists where did it appear between us and those cells $2B years ago to which each of us is connected through the continuous chain of bodies?