[Vision2020] Sotomayor: US Supreme Court's Sixth Catholic?

[g. crabtree]

Human gestation averaging 270 days, I was using 40 week old to define a post 
born human not redefining pre-born.

g
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chasuk" <chasuk at gmail.com>
To: "g. crabtree" <jampot at roadrunner.com>
Cc: <bear at moscow.com>; "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Sotomayor: US Supreme Court's Sixth Catholic?


> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 06:15, g. crabtree<jampot at roadrunner.com> wrote:
>
>> "I don't automatically extend personhood to the pre-born (and the "40
>> week old person" was only just added)."
>
> The "only just added" referred to the late entry -- or redefinition --
> (in the discussion) of the pre-born as a "40 week old person."
>
> Your question is a good one, but has also been rehashed ad nauseum.
> However, I posit that a bit of organic matter consisting of ejaculate
> only recently introduced to an egg has less claim to personhood than
> an actual, inarguable man or woman who may or may not be guilty of the
> crime which condemns them to death.  That is the strange dichotomy:
> many pro-lifers care more for the life that would be indistinguishable
> on a Kleenex without sophisticated instrumentation than they care for
> the life of a known human being.
>