I think that life begins at conception… but that there are conflicting Rights that are stepping on each others’ toes.

I suspect that you’ll be able to make this stand until the day you die.

It’s more that I think that the battle of incremental steps has the first handful of steps be winnable but everything after those steps would not be… and I see that there would be benefit to having those first handful of steps enacted… but to enact them would require compromise to some degree which, as we’ve seen above, is out of the question.

So instead of a handful of steps (perhaps getting us to European levels of restriction), nothing happens.

And then we get to discuss whether the compromise would be a bigger betrayal than the perpetuity of the status quo.

Like if a woman finds that she missed her moon sickness one month and then takes 4 birth control pills at once to induce the onset of moon sickness… I don’t see how that would fall under anything approaching the government’s business, let alone something that would require the intervention of law support.

I also find it difficult to deem such an act “murder”.

But I’m one of those libertines, as you know.

Nor am I proposing one… despite that little incident down in Texas.

No, it’s a world without UIPS that I propose we continue to live in.

It was Heliocentrism that got his Irish up.

Proverbially, I mean.

(He also issued a Papal Bull against smoking tobacco because it led to sneezing.)

That still doesn’t mean that I think that a SWAT team should kick down someone’s door in the dead of night, shoot the dogs, and arrest a woman and force her to take a blood test to see if she happened to take too many birth control pills in the last few days.

And, sure, you’re not proposing that the police get involved to this degree.

You’re just asking me if I don’t consider poisoning to be murder.

(And, for the record, I don’t consider it analagous to poisoning… it’s inducing menstruation.)

And the CPS to go to the door.

For The Children.

So they can make the lady pee in a cup.

And the prosecutor can argue before a judge that the lady needs to be taught a lesson.

It’s better than the other stuff the cops could be doing, I suppose.

Hermione would really be Cedric Diggory.

Of course the story would take place between books 2 and 3.

I agree that life begins at conception.

As for ensoulment, I’m a monist.

As for your point of: “Second, instead of fetus, conceptus, morula, zygote, insert the phrase “African -American.” There was a time when the general opinion of some individuals (and unfortunately such people exist today), was that they were not human as well. How does one reconcile what happens to be an opinion (a very “personal” issue) with that? Was it then acceptable to arbitrarily execute blacks just because there happened to be some who considered them less than human?”

Allow me to ask you the difference between a human being that happens to be in a shed and a human being that we only recently have been able to begin testing for five days before the moon sickness is scheduled to begin (or so I ascertain from the commercials).

Let’s say that you have reason to believe that your next door neighbor is pregnant.

What do you believe that law enforcement should have the right to do? Would a warrant be required to make her pee on a pregnancy test stick?

Would a negative test be evidence that a judge could look for to do a toxicology test on her blood to see if, perhaps, she took over the required dose of birth control pills?

If she took over the required dose of birth control pills, would that be grounds for a murder charge?

Do you really think that coming out and saying “we think that your tax dollars should go for the police being able to arrest women who are suspected of taking 4 birth control pills a few days before their (potentially) missed period and charging them with premeditated murder” will be a winning platform for a President who will, I presume, nominate Supreme Court Justices who wil, I presume, overturn Roe.v.Wade?

So now we’ve gone beyond talking about overturning Roe vs. Wade, but now we are talking about overturning Griswold vs. Connecticut?

These things are not, in fact, falsifying my “they’re not trying to change things” theory.

But I’ve been under the impression for a while that if one takes 4 of one’s birth control pills (instead of just the one), that’s a fairly effective form of EC (or “Emergency Contraception”).

I’ll have to do some research on this, now that I think about it… because, hey, it could easily be one of those things that guys tell chicks (naw, baby, you take 4 of those and it’ll be great) but, then again, it doesn’t strike me as absurd as the pill contains “you’re already pregnant” hormones and so an overdose of those could well do… something.

I’ll ask the wife when she gets home.