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Pro-Choice

Brettongarcia

(2,262 posts)

2. Against Personhood for Embryos

Reply to uppityperson (Original post)

Mon Jan 30, 2012, 08:01 AM

Jan 2012

See my blog. With a 700-page working paper, presenting 200 rational and Biblical and Catholic arguments, that abortion should be allowed. In part, because the embryo is not a human person.

Brettongarcia, on Wordpress.

The essence of the anti-personhood argument, is that most theologian/philosophers agree, and the Science of Anthropology confirms, that the essence of being a person, the thing that makes us more than the animals, is our human intelligence, consciousness, or mind. And? An embryo hasn't got that.

The Bible itself, Ps. 139, said the embryo is not yet "formed"; science confirms its brain is not large enough, not formed enough, to have intelligence or a "rational soul," as Aquinas called it.

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25 Kansas Lawmakers Endorse Anti-abortion Personhood Amendment [View all] uppityperson Jan 2012 OP

It's supposed to be on the November ballot in Oklahoma, too. yellerpup Jan 2012 #1

Against Personhood for Embryos Brettongarcia Jan 2012 #2