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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Zefram: [QB] [QUOTE]Even now, people can have massive variations on what defines a human being, whether its our sentience, our DNA, our cultural morals, or even the way one acts. Ask ten different people on the street what a human is and you'll likely get ten different answers linking back to biology, or religion, or morality, or philosophy.[/QUOTE]That's why the criminizalization (or legalization) of abortion should be decided through elected representatives rather than through judges. Do I morally believe that abortion (in most cases) is wrong? Yes, I do. Am I a religious person? Yes, I am. Do I believe that, because abortion is wrong, the Supreme Court should declare it as such, make it illegal, and preclude any state from ever legalizing it? No. I believe that the Supreme Court should never have gotten involved in the case. The U.S. Constitution neither grants nor denies the right to an abortion, making the decision a Legislative one. If the California legislature were to legalize abortion, I would vehemently disagree with what I see as an immoral decision, but the people (through their duly elected representatives) decided in favor of it. If South Dakota criminalizes abortion (again, through their duly elected representatives), then I applaud their decision and support the people's right to decide in such a way. I've also noticed a strong anti-religious sentiment running through this argument, with constant ad-hominem attacks describing religous people as yahoos and lunatics being used to marginalize the arguments of those who happen to be religious. Although many unfortunate acts have been committed in the name of religion, let me remind some people that the worst atrocities in history were committed by officially secular states, specifically the Holocaust under Nazism, the gulags, purges, and starvation of 10 million peasants under Stalinism, the slaughter in communist Cambodia under Pol Pot, and the brutality of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and massacres such as the one in Tienamen Square. Any ideology has the potential for abuse. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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