[Vision2020] Response to Abortion Post

[g. crabtree]

 Anthropomorphic
sentimentalism aside, a human fetus or embryo is equivalent to adult
examples of "lesser" animals.  I guess this makes me a very weak
speciesist.
Let me get this straight A human fetus is equivalent to a rodent? An embryo 
the same as a chicken? Does this mean that perhaps a young boy is the equal 
of say, an adult baboon or a toddler the lesser of a heifer? I really hope 
that I'm reading you all wrong, but in the mean time I'll be keeping my 
grand kids close lest chasuk start to get a mite peckish.

gc
From: "Chasuk" <chasuk at gmail.com>
To: <nickgier at adelphia.net>
Cc: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Response to Abortion Post


>I eat chicken.  This means that I accept that chickens have died for
> my benefit.  I wear leather shoes.  This means that I accept that cows
> have died for my benefit.  However, I would not eat people (except,
> perhaps, under extreme circumstances, such as to prevent death by
> starvation), nor would I wear shoes made from cadavers.  I can't
> provide logical reasons for proscribing such behaviors.  I know that
> cannibalism has been practiced in some societies.  These
> contradictions reveal me as a proponent of speciesism.  In some sense,
> I consider chickens and cows to be "lesser" animals.  Still, I am not
> a strong speciesist: it is acceptable that human animals sometimes die
> for my benefit.  To preserve my life, or the life of my loved ones,
> the deaths of other humans might be acceptable.  A human fetus or a
> human embryo is, to me, a "lesser" human animal.  Anthropomorphic
> sentimentalism aside, a human fetus or embryo is equivalent to adult
> examples of "lesser" animals.  I guess this makes me a very weak
> speciesist.
>
> As a caveat, understand that I don't believe in the soul, spirit, or
> the afterlife.  If I did, then my beliefs concerning abortion might be
> different, though not necessarily.  If it were different based on the
> value of a soul, spirit, or the afterlife, then I might have to
> reconsider eating chickens or wearing leather.
>
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