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What if Mother Mary Had Obamacare?

Charles1301 Wrote: Dec 18, 2009 1:51 PM

"living, functioning human being"? ----????

Well start with the fact that there is no "person", no "self" no "identity" before the brain is developed enough to construct one. (BTW, what is your understanding of the word "functioning"?)

In the same way that a severe case of Alzheimer's causes a loss of self identity because the brain can no longer maintain that illusion, an embryo and fetus are incapable of the construction of a "self".

Tell me again why it was ok to pull the plug on Terry Schiavo??? Oh, yeah, because she wasn't Terry Schiavo anymore.

When is the brain sufficiently able to construct a sense of identity? About the exact same time it is capable of storing and retrieving memories.

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What if Mother Mary Had Obamacare?

Washington is up to its old political shell game again, this time in an unprecedented way.

While Americans are focused upon the Christmas season and the mainstream media on health care and President Barack Obama's two trips to Europe (last week to Oslo and this week to Copenhagen), the Democrats in Congress have slipped major pro-abortion legislation under the radar.

First, last Monday the Senate rejected the health care reform bill amendment introduced by Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, that would have banned federal funds from providing for abortion.