Quite..... and even more concretely in every day life, it is akin to saying, in the sixteenth century, "let us kill all non-Europeans" since only Europeans are human beings. It took the ROMAN Catholic Church (not any of the others then newly protestant churches) to proclaim that Africans are human beings, etc. My point is that Holy Mother Church has always supported and proclaimed the truth of the sanctity of the human being.

Sad that nothing has changed in human civilisation; the desire to … [More]

May I point out something "elementary" about the comment made by the Chair of DNC - "Children in the womb are not persons."
As you may recall from elementary school, this is known as a compound sentence because it states more than one thing. Indeed, this sentence states two facts. First, Children are in the womb, and secondly, they are not persons!
Take the sentence apart and you'll see that I'm right about this. If you remove one of her intended facts ie, they are not persons, you end up with: … [More]

Why is it that a person can be found guilty of manslaughter when their negligent actions cause a woman to miscarry?