Op-Ed: 'Fetal personhood' has a whiff of medieval theology (via latimesopinion)
Even a state like California, with its progressive abortion laws, needs the right to abortion enshrined in its state constitution.For Catholics, then and now, the key issue is not thinking, but the ability to make moral decisions.
Reading claims made by antiabortion advocates that a group of cells is a “person” from conception onward calls to mind the endless medieval debates about the resurrection of the body. According to medieval theology, animals are also going to be resurrected, so what will happen to the cows and pigs and fish whose bodies have been consumed and reincorporated in other animals or humans? Is the consumed flesh theirs or their consumers?What about cannibalism? If a person eats another person, whose flesh is whose, and what will this mean when Judgment Day arrives and all beings are...
We might all agree that at some point the fetus becomes an independent being. But when does this differentiation occur? Certainly not at conception.In the two months since the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, Republican candidates have been noticeably quiet on the abortion issue.
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