Bottom line, if a human is a human from conception forward (and no one can prove otherwise and the vast majority of doctors, scientists and biologists define it that way) then they are human and possessing all human rights as an innocent being, no matter how inconvenient the application of those rights are.
Now, maybe you believe there are situations where the killing of one innocent life is necessary or proportional to save an innocent life.
But your calling it just cells and saying feed it to a dog is not only insulting in the Catholic forum, it is damaging and hurtful to all of us who have lost children early in pregnancy. Your comments rob my son of his humanity. Attempt to rob him of his identity and even (by saying they are no more than cells) his very soul and even his existence.
My wife and I would have gladly given either or both our lives to save him if we could have. But here you are...saying he would have been no more than cells, he did not have an identity, he did not even exist. But he did. His name is Michael. He is my son and I love him and would defend his life with mine...no matter if he existed for one second or one hundred years. Do you see how you spit on him. Mock his very existence as a human being with your comment. He lived. Had all the processes of life. Does the fact that we wanted him make him human? Desire makes one human? Or the fact that he was not causing medical complications make him human? convenience makes one human? You say blob of cells. Feed to a dog. And think you are defending life. You are so sane. So compassionate...to spit on my child and mock his life.
Oh, I'm sorry....you're not doing that are you? You're just being sane, compassionate and so reasonable compared to those of us who held a blob of cells with a head and little hands in our hands, although no bigger than our fingertip, and knew it was our child. How foolish of us to name him. To love him. To be willing to die for him. Such fools we are to say he is human but then accept that that mean he was human from the beginning of his existence. Obviously he was not human...he was a dog, or an ocelot or a bird of some kind. The offspring of two humans is after all not a human until he is outside the womb...or wanted...or medically convenient. He is not just human because of DNA or because it is his nature from the moment of conception as the life processes begin. But we are mentally ill, because we fact the fact that it is life. We face the fact that when a child dies in the womb that a life...equal to any other is lost. What madness. What madness to hold to that truth even when it is difficult.
And, you say, if he endangered his mothers life it would have been fine to have fed him to a dog. Or that my sister and I, having endangered our mothers life..it would have been alright to feed us to a dog. Who here is devaluing life? The people who are arguing to try to save both or the person saying for all they care one life could be feed to a dog because it is not the same thing as a grown person. Yes, age and height are the defining factors of life. Comparative factors that give one life more value than another. How sane. How compassionate.
You say we are mentally ill if we believe this. Mentally ill because I give my son all the love and rights of any human being...no matter when he died. Mentally ill because I ask that we attempt to save both lives and if one must be lost we use a method other than the direct killing of a human being by a D&C or D&E procedure.
Please reflect that when you place any life above another you demean all life. We must strive to save both lives...and barring that we must not directly take any innocent life.
Amen
