Senator Obama, If Fatherhood Begins at Conception, When Does Life Begin?
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Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council asks Sen. Barack Obama about his remark on Fathers Day that "fatherhood doesn't end at conception."
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The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
is how we reconcile such contradictions. Family court certainly seems to favor conception as a starting point and criminal court does, too, in cases of murdered pregnant women. I think I've already repeated enough times lately, the part about constitutional "privacy" going out the windows in matters of recreation that don't even involve other human lives.
I'm a biologist. As a professional, I think that a zygote absolutely constitutes life- a zygote is a living human cell. However, that to me doesn't impart anything sacred to it. I've cultured human cells in vitro for research and have autoclaved them when finished without a second thought. I don't see destroying human cells in an autoclave as being effectively different than destroying a zygote or a blastula via chemical abortion.
Please note that I'm not trying to troll. You asked, I answered.
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Out with the Oak King.
My comment is in reference to Obama's "contradiction," not the point you raise.
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Out with the Oak King.
but your lack of such a sense does not make it any less the termination of a sacred life.
"Do not fear, only believe." (Mark 5:36)
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Out with the Oak King.
Wow - nailed him.
But - In being a Lib, Obimo can say what ever he wants - he has no principle behind his position - even it sounds like he does. And other libs do not measure him on that scale anyways - and so it goes.
He has voted against "Born Alive" legislation - even when he could have voted "present" one of his trademarks (is there a full count of "present" votes?)
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"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." -- James Madison
The baby is a baby when it is convenient for the baby to be a baby. The baby is a mass of cells when it is convenient for the baby to be a mass of cells.
This isn't new. The slave states wanted a slave to count as a whole person when being counted for tax distribution and the appointment of members to House of Representatives, but they didn't want to recognize their rights a whole person, ever.
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That the Senator will refuse to answer.
McCain for POTUS so the left can't ruin SCOTUS.
It's pitiable how empty Obama's suit is. I'd actually feel sorry for him on account of his lack of a single principle or conviction that really matters to him, himself -- I would feel sorry for him if he weren't so precariously close to becoming President. It must be a miserable existence not to have anything that one really truly deeply values as inviolate. As it is I don't pity him; I have contempt for him for his unabashed self-serving tendencies. And I wonder how anyone who has taken even a passing interest in this campaign can believe anything he says.
He's the anti-St. Thomas More who found something that he believed in to the point of accepting martyrdom rather than violate it:
"Because what matters is that I believe it, or rather, no, not that I believe it, but that I believe it."
"I will not give in, because I oppose it. Not my pride, not my spleen, nor any other of my appetites, but I do. Is there, in the midst of all this muscle, no sinew that serves no appetite of Norfolk's, but is just Norfolk? There is! Give that some exercise, my lord!"
"Do not fear, only believe." (Mark 5:36)
I heard that Allen West will be giving a speech this Saturday addressing Obama and the use of "race" in politics.
The GO WEST campaign will be videotaping the speech and it should be released sometime next week.
As far as responsibilities of fatherhood, there are two.
1. Conception
2. Support after the child is born and survives.
Obama is right.
Until a child is born viable, there is no responsibility for the father.
Does a father have to pay child support for a miscarriage? A stillborn?
No. They don't. Family court and criminal court use the conception timeline because in both those instances, the viability of the fetus is not known.
because there is nothing that a father can do between conception and birth to help the development of the child.
McCain for POTUS so the left can't ruin SCOTUS.
I have to say... ZING!