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Old 07-26-2008, 08:31 PM
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Re: Abortion

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Originally Posted by No0ne View Post

...The real question is..

1.Should you have the right to destroy your creation?

A.Or should another that has not created your creation make that choice for you...

B. At what point do you no longer have the right to destroy your creation.
Over the last several hours I created about 750 mL of urine, which upon a certain pelvic urge I promptly voided and flushed down the toilet.

What gave me the right to destroy my creation?

Yes, I know that babies and urine are not morally identical.

But your argument is hinging upon a certain understanding of the word creation, which is indeed a very loaded word.

So is my urine a mere biological function, but a baby is a creation? If so, you're being arbitrary, because creating a baby is also a biological function. Is my urine not a creation because it was an unconscious production of my kidneys, completely out of my conscious control? Well, so can be the production of a fertilized egg in some extreme circumstances.

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So for my information to remain neutral authoritative information I must not tell you the answer to (B).
Depends if we're talking about babies, poop, pee, or puke, doesn't it.
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