 The first questions: Is a fetus human being?
Most scientists think that the answer to this question is clearly yes. This answer is a medical and scientific one, for we cannot impose a religious or philosophic belief in our nations through force of law.
The second question: Should people provide similar protection by law to all living humans in our society?
The third question: Should people allow discrimination against entire classes of living humans?
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In last years in American culture, written into constitutions, especially protected by laws, and deeply stated into the hearts of all people, there has appeared the absolute value of honoring and protecting the right of each human for life. This has been an unalienable and definite right. The only exception has been that of balancing a life for a life in specify situations or by due process of law.
- Never, in present – except by a small group of doctors in Hitler’s Germany and by Stalin in Russia – has a price tag of economic or social use-fullness been placed on an individual human life as the price of its continued existence.
- Never, in present – except by doctors in Hitler’s Germany – has a certain physical perfection been required as a condition necessary for the continuation of that life.
- Never – since the law of paterfamilias in ancient Rome — has a major nation granted to a father or mother total dominion over the life or death of their child.
- Never, in present, has the state granted to one citizen the legal right to have another killed for solving their own personal, social or economic problem.
Court Decision in America and permissive abortion laws in other nations do all of the above. They represent reverse, complete rejection of one of the fundamental values of Western man, and an approval of a new ethic in which life has only a relative value.
No longer will every human have a right to live simply because he or she exists. A human will now be allowed to exist only if he measures up to certain standards of independence, physical perfection, or utilitarian usefulness to others. This is a significant change that strikes at the root of Western civilization.
It makes no difference to vaguely assume that human life is more human post-born than pre-born. What is critical is to judge it to be — or not to be — human life. By a measurement of more or less human, one can easily justify infanticide and euthanasia. By the condition of economic and social usefulness, the terrible cruelty of Hitlerian mass murders came to be.
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