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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 1:21 pm, February 20th, 2018"Your claim is predicated on abortion killing a person..." My claim is predicated on abortion killing a human. Yes. That is what the science clearly demonstrates. "...but you’re still leaving a yawning logical chasm where your compelling argument for ...
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 1:19 pm, February 20th, 2018"your earlier references? You mean the out-of-context extracts in the prolife propaganda that argued a whole human being is a single-celled organism?" Translation "I didn't know which references you meant, so I'll pretend I read one of tem and claim you ...
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 12:57 pm, February 20th, 2018The mother is the best person to make a call about whether she will receive a state funded abortion and state funded after-care? The mother is the best person to make a call about taking a life that, in your world, would have zero advocacy? You have ...
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 11:22 am, February 20th, 2018...at least they get a choice. And a taxpayer funded abortion and support. The life taken received nothing. Not even your advocacy.
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 11:17 am, February 20th, 2018"If a given teacher is in fact trained why would they not seek registration?" Good question. The term 'trained' can be misleading (which is likely why KJT used it). Traditionally when someone claimed to be a 'trained' teacher, that would have been ...
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 10:33 am, February 20th, 2018When a life is taken without justification, it is killing. When a life is taken to assuage some distorted view of autonomy or entitlement, it is killing.
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 10:29 am, February 20th, 2018No, what I argue for is to allow children to flourish, as they are, away from state schools, if that is best for them. You are married to an ideology that appeases the unions over children's best interests. And given your claim to be some kind of 'expert',...
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 10:25 am, February 20th, 2018"But still nothing in the scientific dictionary that was so near to your hand when you looked up “life”." So you missed my earlier references? "Sans eyes, sans ears, sans brain, lungs, legs and every other organ of the human body, yet is a “whole human ...
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 10:18 am, February 20th, 2018"Says people who base their views on reality rather than pretense. " Really? Yet you don't even try to justify that assertion. "And “virtually indistinguishable” is a bit optimistic – that umbilical chord is a dead giveaway." That umbilical cord is what ...
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 9:19 pm, February 19th, 2018What irony? There is no irony. Not in my argument.
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 9:18 pm, February 19th, 2018"Children live outside their mothers’ bodies." Says who? A child of one hour old is virtually biologically indistinguishable from a child one hour from being born. "You’re arguing that you have the right to refuse bodily autonomy for an actually-existing ...
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 9:14 pm, February 19th, 2018"So there’s no definition for “human” in that scientific dictionary, huh?" I don't know. But here, this may help you... http://www.dictionary.com/browse/human-being "a person, especially as distinguished from other animals or as representing the human ...
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 4:27 pm, February 19th, 2018"Then perhaps you should have copied the “scientific definition” of “human” as well." You're the only one confusing humans with grass.
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 4:09 pm, February 19th, 2018" “Living” like plants or fungus. Does grass have bodily autonomy?" We are discussing the ending of a human life, not grass.
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 12:52 pm, February 19th, 2018" the whole late term abortion thing is a red herring." No, it isn't. It speaks to a number of aspects of this discussion. It particularly points out the huge ethical dilemma confronted by those who argue abortion is simply a matter of 'rights', and the ...
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 11:22 am, February 19th, 2018"Abortion is a medical procedure; all women need to to be able to access it as of right, if that’s what they choose." There is no 'right' to access abortion. There is no 'right' to take another life. "It isn’t my business – or that of anybody else – if a ...
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Comment:Open Mike 15/02/2018
Date published: 11:16 am, February 19th, 2018"You think the Governance of the country should depend on who “wins” petty games?" No. That's what OAB thinks, apparently.
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 11:14 am, February 19th, 2018"Women have the right to make choices that affect the unborn foetus, irrespective of how one views that foetus. " Invoking 'right's when discussing taking the life of human being some rather entitled. No-one has the 'right' to take life. No-one. "This is ...
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 11:09 am, February 19th, 2018You are confused about the meaning of autonomy in this context. Autonomy is the right or capacity to make decisions about ones existence. We have an ethical tradition in which we protect those who have this right but not the capacity. My argument is simply...
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 11:06 am, February 19th, 2018The American Heritage Dictionary of Science: Life is “the form of existence that organisms like animals and plants have and that inorganic objects or organic dead bodies lack; animate existence, characterized by growth, reproduction, metabolism, and ...
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 11:03 am, February 19th, 2018"Which “science” in particular? " Moore, K. and T.V.N. Persaud. 1998. The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology (6th ed.), W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia. Larsen, W.J. 1998. Essentials of Human Embryology, Churchill Livingstone, New York. ...
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 10:59 am, February 19th, 2018We aren't discussing killing bacteria, though, are we?
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 6:26 pm, February 17th, 2018The answer is based on how one views the foetus. That is my point. For example, if one backs the science, and views the foetus as a living human (at least at some stage of pregnancy, if not from conception), then that living human does have bodily autonomy...
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 6:17 pm, February 17th, 2018Well said. I was not saying anyone here WAS viewing the unborn in either way I outlined, but many do. My point has been to respond to the idea that abortion is simply an issue of ‘bodily autonomy’ and ‘human rights’. If one takes the view that this is the ...
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 6:11 pm, February 17th, 2018"I can view life as starting at conception and still believe that it’s the woman’s right to choose. " Ah yes, but that was not the point I was addressing. I was responding to Anon here https://thestandard.org.nz/labour-to-reform-abortion-law/#comment-...
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 6:08 pm, February 17th, 2018We share a similar experience. But science tells us that that unborn child was life. Not potential life. Life.
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 6:07 pm, February 17th, 2018I agree.
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Comment:Open Mike 15/02/2018
Date published: 1:30 pm, February 17th, 2018"That sounds more likely." Why would there be a judicial review? We have a government who is talking with forked tongues (or maybe it's just incompetence?), implementing poor policy to assuage a vested interest group who funds them, and riding roughshod ...
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Comment:Labour to reform abortion law
Date published: 1:27 pm, February 17th, 2018This issue really comes down to how you view the nature of life. If you view life as beginning at some point early inside the womb, then the 'human rights' and 'bodily autonomy' of the mother have to be weighed against the 'human rights' and 'bodily ...
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Comment:Open Mike 15/02/2018
Date published: 9:56 am, February 16th, 2018"You’re always good for a laugh when you try to report what you think is reality." Find it yourself. It's publicly available now. It hasn't been suppressed, although on past form that would probably your preference, aye.
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Comment:Open Mike 15/02/2018
Date published: 9:51 am, February 16th, 2018"Judicial review is all about right and wrong. Try again." Yes, but that's not your concern. Is it? Your concern is pure ideology, and you'll support lies and deception to achieve it.
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