[Vision2020] The GOP War On Women Accelerates

[Scott Dredge]

I'm not too thrilled about the unnecessary taking of life either.  I simply find forcing women to carry pregnancies to term against their wishes to be many magnitudes more abhorrent.  Pick your poison, I guess.  You can't have it both ways.  I'd hope that most women would choose life, but since there about an infinite number of factors that go into why women terminate pregnancies, each particular situation can only be best assessed by the pregnant woman herself and only she herself should be the one to decide the best course of action for her own situation.  Not you, not me, not the evil government.

-Scott


From: dickow at turbonet.com
To: Vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 12:07:33 -0700
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The GOP War On Women Accelerates

RE: [Vision2020] The GOP War On Women Accelerates----Nick Gier wrote: -------------------
Hi Roger,

I find the unnecessary taking of life abhorrent …. They (Ancient Jews) also believed that the fetus was not a person until it drew its first breath, because the Bible says that breath is life.

Nick
-----------------------------------To use Rabinical argumentation, one might argue that we could interpret ‘breath’ as simply a physical behavior (inhaling/exhaling) that is necessary to facilitate respiration. We could separate inhalation/exhalation from respiration in the womb, and just concern ourselves with respiration. That is to say, a born person (not necessarily a ‘born again’ person) needs to respire (absorb oxygen at a cellular level), so one inhales/exhales in order to accomplish respiration. But in the womb, inhalation/exhalation is unnecessary, since the mother’s blood supplies the oxygen, nutrients, etc . It is respiration per se that is necessary to sustain metabolic processes.  ‘Breathing’ therefore, in the sense of respiration (oxygen/CO2 exchange) starts right away.. at conception. But then, the ancient Jews didn’t know about O2/CO2 gas exchange, the Krebbs Citric Acid Cycle, or any of that other cool stuff, so they most likely really *did* mean inhalation/exhalation in the form of drawing breath from the air, only possible upon or very shortly after birth.  Dear Readers, if you are someone who also believes that the intent of our ‘Founding Fathers’ should govern our modern interpretation of the laws strictly as set forth at the drafting of our Constitution, it would be logically consistent, based on the great heritage of our ancient religious forebearers and phrases in the Holy Bible, to accept it also that Life begins at birth, not before. I admit though that in certain cases, life for many people actually starts some time after puberty, if ever. Bob Dickow, troublemaker 
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