Well a soul could have bearing on the issue if the debate was between two people who both believed in a soul and that we have one. PLC1 and I both believe that we have a soul; we just disagree when we get it. That same issue would have no bearing in a discussion between you and someone who believed in a soul or you and another person who did not believe in a soul.
Everyone comes to their own conclusions as to why they lean one way or another on any given topic. Sometimes it boils down to something like a soul and when it comes.
It is not a point I would use in a regular abortion debate but PLC1 brought it up so I am curious as to when he thinks we get it. Today on a local talk show the point came up a soul would come with the first breath. I found that interesting.
A woman in my state targeted another woman on Craig’s list who was about to deliver her baby. Killed the woman and cut her baby out of her. The baby died and the woman called 911 trying to get help for the baby. There is a huge debate here on if the woman should be charged with two murders like the Stacy and Conner Peterson case in California. The state is trying to find out if the baby breathed a breath. If it did, the woman is going to be charged with two murders, if it didn’t then the baby was not a person even though it was within a week till his due date. I find that odd.
Now that I think of it, the baby having to have breathed a breath to be considered a human might be the idea behind partial birth abortion. If you can kill the baby before the head comes out, you have killed it before it breathed its first breath…thus offing it before it had a chance to become human.
I always wondered why every part of the baby can come out but the head and its ok to kill it even if its perfectly viable, this would answer that question for me.
