[Vision2020] Re: My logic as characterized by you, professor?

[ToeKneeTime at aol.com]

Nick,
 
Wow.  You first present me with a twisted and presumptuous  characterization 
of my position regarding abortion, and then advise me as to  what I must  
conclude.  I opt not to play within such  perameters.
 
Is God a person?  My, I hope this isn't going to be on the  test.  I don't 
recall being advised as to the precise nature of  "God".  I would never presume 
to know the answer to such a  question.  I'll leave that to those with more 
hubris.
 
Souls, if they exist, would not be defined by biology or genetics, you  
instruct.  After all, higher mammals have unique genetic identities.   I must 
conclude that they are persons.  Well, I guess if you can show  me a dolphin that 
can play Motzart, or a walrus that can carve like  MichaelAngelo, I might have 
to acknowledge that.  As I said, Prof, I'll  leave it to folks like you to 
contrive a distinction between humans and  persons.  Human beings are human 
beings, as their genetic blue print  requires.  You may choose to deny their status 
as persons, thus allowing  you to rationalize their murder.  That is how all 
manner of mass atrocities  have been justified in the past.  It seems to me 
that you are engaged in a  game of intellectual twister in a desperate effort to 
quiet a nagging  conscience.  Abortion is the premeditated taking of a human 
life.  If  you wish to argue, as in the case of Terry Scaivo, justifiable 
homicide, go  ahead.  Question for another day.  But please be honest with us, and 
 yourself.  What you have been championing, abortion on demand, free of  
practically any restrictions, is horrendously wrong.  And the cost to the  most 
innocent among us, is grave indeed.
 
There is an ice cold callousness to your approach to such issues that  
concerns me.  Just for once, considering the stakes, won't you rely on your  very 
human conscience?  
 
Best,  Tony
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