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John, I appreciate your views on this, what could be a touchy topic. I like the way you keep the vitrol down, and stick to opinion without stating it as fact.
having said that, my opinion (as I have no links with facts):
While the Supreme Court sidestepped the issue saying the definition of when life began is a political, not judical issue
Justice Blackmun, R v W
"We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man's knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer."
they did knowingly or unknowingly define it (and as Justices, to me that makes it a legal definition) - when they said the unborn have no legal rights to protect.
Ergo - unborn means not living alive since all living people have rights that can not be abrogated.
Brain dead people have rights, as they were born and are not yet dead.
Even dead people (heck even non-citizens) have rights in America; therefore fetuses aren't yet people.
If fetuses are in fact people there are a lot of folks going to end up on death row for having had abortions since Roe vs Wade now aren't there?
To reiterate my original question - How Pro-life is that?
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