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Yes, and are we going to perform random tests to discover if a child has been sexually molested or sexually abused? Why do you ask impractical questions?

It isn't an impractical question. How else are we going to determine if a woman was pregnant to prosecute them for terminating a pregnancy? The whole concept is impractical....
 
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correct...and that is what it says in the medical records of someone who has miscarried..."spontaneous abortion"...miscarried is not a medical term.
 
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Well, I think the serial killer is a person, and a first trimester fetus isn't

Is a "fetus" a human being? If it isn't, then what is it? A serial killer is guilty. How a bout a "fetus"? Should the law make a difference between someone who is guilty and another who is innocent?
 
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Would you have any objection to sending most children to heaven? How about sending to heaven all those we don't like?
That is up to God. He is the one to decide not us.
 
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Is a "fetus" a human being?
A fertilized ovum called a zygote is a human because all the information is there. Two people have joined together to create an offspring.
 
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Is a "fetus" a human being? If it isn't, then what is it? A serial killer is guilty. How a bout a "fetus"? Should the law make a difference between someone who is guilty and another who is innocent?


Since we are dealing with law the relevant question is "Is the fetus a person"? My answer would be no. It does not have the requisite cognitive function to be a person.
 
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Do you know what the problem is when you start lying? You get tripped up in your own lies.

Your words.....

I'm not talking about what the human law is. I'm talking about what it should morally be.

Now...this particular is discussion IS about the law, whether you are "talking about" it or not! I repeat, if you want to discuss some other aspect, then start your own discussion!

Continue to talk to yourself........
 
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I don't recognise any claims made concerning a god's supposed wishes.

This discussion is centred around HUMANS wanting to introduce a law.
 
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We prosecute lesser crimes like rape, sexual abuse of children and car thefts. I my car is stolen, I can buy another. A life stolen can never be replaced. The criminal act is is final. Can't we use common sense?

Definitely. And the "common sense" approach would lead us to the understanding that many desperate, poor, often badly educated, often alone women are going to seek the termination of pregnancies, whether it is made illegal or not!

Making criminals out of these unfortunate people will not 'save' a single foetus and will only serve to significantly increase your already obscenely bloated prison populations.
 
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Where do you get these inflated figures from.

"In October 2013, the incarceration rate of the United States of America was the highest in the world, at 716 per 100,000 of the national population. While the United States represents about 4.4 percent of the world's population, it houses around 22 percent of the world's prisoners.[1] Corrections (which includes prisons, jails, probation, and parole) cost around $74 billion in 2007 according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics"

I suggest you watch the following confessions of an ex-abortion doctor:

I did. Why should I pay any mind to someone who, like yourself, merely makes unsubstantiated, unevidenced claims?
 
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At what point in the development of the unborn child would you consider it to be a moral duty to protect the life of a human being?

My view is that once sapience, sentience and survivability independent of the woman can be demonstrated, then some other option should be explored for those who do not wish to raise a child. Typically, this would be a foetus with at least 24 weeks of development.

But there is the salient point. That is MY opinion and no one else should feel obligated to abide with it!
 
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If your son or daughter were dying of cancer, would you discourage him/her from praying to God?

I would neither encourage nor discourage him. It would be his choice.

However, if I thought there was something more useful he could do with his hands, that might actually aid his survival, I would certainly suggest it!

And this is off topic.
 
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Since the pregnant woman did not create the life that is within her, she has no "right" to end it (that is a false presupposition. Only God has the right to end life, since He is the Creator.

No he isn't. There, that was easy.

Abortion is murder.

No, it is not. Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being. Abortion is not unlawful, nor is a foetus a human being.

It should be illegal.

The community and the courts disagree with you.


Ah yes. The conservative fundamentalist.......

"Who can I hate today!?"
 
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Investigate the cause of the loss of pregnancy and if it is shown to have been an abortion, then it should be charged as murder.

Do you know the number of women, already distraught at having suffered a miscarriage, you would be subjecting to the humiliation and pain of having to prove that they didn't 'kill' their foetus!?

Let me guess.........you're male, correct?
 
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How do you identify all those guilty of sexually abusing children? Should we legalize the sexual abuse of children because we cannot identity all crimes against children?

Answer the question. How are you going to differentiate between those women who 'innocently' suffered a miscarriage and those who caused a termination?
 
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For those who believe in God there are only two kinds of children: born and unborn. If you reject this premise, then perhaps you should limit yourself to visiting atheistic web sites.

Irrelevant to the discussion at hand. You will note that, in structuring this discussion, NO mention was made of any particular religious stance.

Start your own discussion if you wish to pontificate.
 
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Correct! The same applies to any other crime: theft, sexual abuse of children, rape, drug dealing, and so on. Are you suggesting that we legalize all immoral activity? Would the world be a better place if we were to make all immoral acts legal?:

In all of those other examples, we criminalise them because someone else is harmed by them. A foetus is not deemed to be a person. The woman's welfare takes primacy.
 
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