It's a website also with a newsletter, which has a staff who answers questions on all kinds of questions. Very interesting topics. Beware the offering of stupid questions or bad attitudes. They discuss that, too. Lengthy archives.
Recently, they discussed the abortion question regarding when life began. Apparently, the Catholic Church does indeed have a spotty record of it's stance on that issue. At one time, they believed that boy babies were 'life' at maybe 4 weeks (I forget the numbers. You said something???) and girls at 21 weeks. Eventually, a Pope remarked that Mary was life at conception which started the belief that the fetus is a person from that time. I think he said they didn't say much about abortion. Was is believed for a time that life began at birth, too? I think so. So they changed.
The newsletter writer said that since brain dead is considered death, that the time of being able to record brain activity would be a reasonable time to regard the fetus as alive, therefore, a person. He said that's around 24 weeks? Maybe 21, I again forget.
The first trimester is 12 weeks, isn't it? That makes the marker time towards the end of the 2nd trimester? Something like that.
Huckabee talks about the sancity of human life. Didn't the churches used to talk about when the soul entered the body? It's not provable we have souls or that God exists, so this is a tenuious argument. Sanctity is much stronger until we get to the death penality and war. I don't know how believers put that one together.
If there's no brain activity, is there life? The thing about abortion is that people apply their emotions to it and not their intellect. I apply my emotion to the economy since I have no intellect about it.
Do we make laws to satisify the intellect or the emotion? Some of both, maybe. More mix and match and I have no problem making the selections.
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