The Supreme Court did not Declare One Fertilized Cell is a Human Being


With the bluster and aggressiveness of this Court's conservative majority, one would think it would rule all abortion murder. This would have required a declaration the one fertilized cell is a human being.

Much to the bitter disappointment of some pundits, it did not. Instead, as the anti-abortion link says, it opened the door to "massive increases" in abortion in abortion rights states. The reason the court did not seems obvious. It could not. It is impossible to establish factually that one cell is a human being. A human being is still defined by the birth certificate. The one cell human being is still defined by religion. The ruling that overturned Roe made no progress in defining when a human being comes into existence. It did make progress in harassment of women. It helped to remind all that Eve was responsible for the Original Sin and women must pay for her sin of eating the apple.

By not passing a law establishing one fertilized cell a human being, the Court left open huge areas of the U.S. and much of the entire world to considering the fetus a part of the woman's body. This, in turn, left abortion clinics in much of the U.S. able to perform abortions. They can do abortions for women who reside in no-abortion states. 

 The anti-abortion link author correctly points out that if all abortion is not stopped, the debate about it continues. There should not, he concludes, be any debate about premeditated murder. His argument is logical in that if abortion is murder every state in the U.S., every state plus Congress itself should prohibit it. 

Why has abortion remained legal in much of the U.S?  Why has it become legal in several countries where formerly it was illegal? The answer is simple: Abortion is still legal in much of the U.S. and around the world because arguments to keep it legal are stronger than those to outlaw it. The link author almost pleads that it be illegal in all states. It was once illegal in the U.S. That was reversed in Roe. It was illegal in many other countries where it was recently made legal. The sands of time show us making it universally illegal has not and will not happen.

That one fertilized cell is a human being is today and always has been an absurd idea.

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  1. HenryJuly 3, 2022 at 11:11 AM

    “ A human being is still defined by the birth certificate. ”

    Not if you through criminal DUI kill a pregnant woman. You will be charged for killing the unborn.

    I am not sure why you don’t scale things back to Roman times, Jon. Ignore the science of the fetal heartbeat, etc and just go up to 2 years after birth as the Romans did. They could kill their children two years after birth.. If you are going to radicalize and ignore science, just put yourself back in history. But then , you as a man are still making a decision in regards to abortion.

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    1. JonJuly 3, 2022 at 12:45 PM

      Henry "..ignore science.." I'm glad you brought up science. I did the science on the so-call "heartbeat." There is no heart when nerves start firing. The firing is called "heartbeat" but there is no heart. More anti abortion lies. I'm glad also you brought up the Romans. There have been many definitions of when a human life begins. It is a cultural thing. The definition is derived from necessity in various societies at various points in their history.

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    2. HenryJuly 3, 2022 at 6:51 PM

      Nice semantic game. To this day, I still have nerves firing in my chest area. As a result, blood flows. Heartbeat or no heart beat, it all works well.

      Interesting you want to lean onto the Roman post-natal abortion history. I guess nothing new under the sun. Madelyn Ohare wanted to give her son a postnatal abortion.



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