[GPSCC-chat] Consistent Life Ethic: ban the bomb, not the baby?

[Brian Good]

   Personally, having been through an unwanted-pregnancy scare and vicariously
experienced another friend's abortion I consider abortion very nasty stuff.  Of course 
technology could solve the problem.  Extract the embryo from the mother who doesn't 
want it and grow it in an artificial womb for someone who does want it.  But that would 
be too simple, and it would remove the primary source of indignation that fuels poor
red-staters' support of the Republicans' agenda that is antithetical to their own
actual interests.

  



Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:36:30 -0700
From: the_alliance47 at yahoo.com
To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Consistent Life Ethic: ban the bomb, not the baby?

The following is taken directly from the Illinois Green Party 2008 platform. Thoughts?



...many in the Green Party oppose the practice of abortion, motivated by a “consistent ethic of life” (a commitment to the protection of life on the planet, which is threatened in today's world by war, poverty, environmental degradation, racism, capital punishment, abortion and euthanasia). The Ten Key Values of the Green Party are certainly consistent with this philosophy. We want to protect life, especially human life, and enhance the quality of that life.

We acknowledge that people on both sides of the abortion "divide" are motivated by deeply held principles. We should not let the abortion issue divide people of good will, but should promote a unified struggle to create conditions that will make abortion increasingly unnecessary and
 rare.

We also acknowledge that people on each side of the abortion "divide" don’t always agree with each other, and that there are complex sub-issues. While no reasonable person can deny that the human embryo and fetus are living, reasonable people can disagree as to the point at which the embryo or fetus becomes sufficiently developed to be a "person" protected by law.

 		 	   		  
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