Re: How Kammie is Scamming Her Pro-Choice Supporters

On 10/24/2024 12:36 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

Oct 23, 2024 at 12:41:53 PM PDT, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

 

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And yet we can pass laws against murdering adult humans without it being a
religious act. Why can't the same be done for humans in the womb?

                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

That right there is the reason.

 

As a legal concept, human life begins at birth, never in the womb. You
just made the religious argument that human life begins in the womb,
which is the start of pregnancy. Other religious types argue that life
begins at conception.

 

Ridiculous. "Murder" is whatever the legislature says it is. It needn't even
be a human life.

 Earlier in the thread, you told us that was the legal definition of
murder, the unlawful killing of a human being, so not foeticide.
 

If your state legislature amended the penal code to say that in addition
to humans, murder now includes the unlawful killing of any member of
the species Canis familiaris, then it would be a valid law and killing
a dog would be murder.

 

So expanding the definition of "murder" to include pre-born infants in no way
automatically makes the law a religious one.

 Or, I dunno, they might make the crime the unlawful killing of a foetus,
entirely skipping the appeal about the unconstitutional redefinition of
when human life begins and have a more serious statute.

And a basis for rejecting such a law (should anyone be sane enough to try) would be its origins in faith rather than in provable fact.