Life Starts Somewhere

Life Starts SomewhereOn the Aug. 3  “The O’Reilly Factor” commentator Charles Krauthammer weighed in on the question about the public money Planned Parenthood gets and why some people are OK with abortion.

“There is a difference between a fetus and a born adult or child human being,” Krauthammer said, “I think there is an honest division of opinion in the country between people who believe . . . that life and personhood begins at conception and others who believe it’s a gradual process”

Here is a reality that can’t be denied. Life starts somewhere. It is obviously not a gradual process. Can you kill an adolescent? Adolescents are not fully developed.

Further, the claim that life  starts at conception is not religion-based  but reason-based . Religion tells you, you may not kill i.e. murder which is what one does when one purposely take the life of a helpless, innocent human being. Reason tells you that life starts somewhere.

So where does Krauthammer think it starts? That life starts at conception is something for which one can make a rational case. One can’t do that for the claim that it starts when the head leaves the birth canal.

So where does Krauthammer and the Planned Parenthood defenders think it starts? Viability outside the womb? This is contingent upon technology. The standard based on that can significantly change in a generation or two hence viability outside the womb can’t be considered the start of life as the point at which life starts will never change.

So where does Krauthammer think it starts?

Life does not start at point A for believing Catholics and point B for atheists. Where life starts is where life starts for everyone. So Planned Parenthood defenders make your case.

Life Starts Somewhere

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