Abortion Continues
Submitted by piratechick123 on October 11, 2008
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Liberty versus life, at what point do the two collide, and of the two, which ends up on top, with priority? Our constitution, through its practical application, seems clear enough on this. The extent of one’s liberty stops dead at the point where it would infringe upon others. And yet, this seems forgotten when the victim is unable to cry out, our inconvenience made more important than their single most basic of rights, the right to life. Abortion continues.
This clearly black and white issue, literally life and death, gains it’s skeptics at its foundation. Where the definition of life is painted gray? There are those that would argue that the baby isn’t a person at all, thus has no rights, others still say that it is only a person once it reaches a certain level of development. So when does humanity kick in, when is it a person? Well it is at the very moment of...