Enough already: Unborn babies are human persons, and that's it

If people don't recognize the humanity of the unborn, they won't recognize the humanity of their neighbors.

July 14, 2019 By Tina Simmons

States across the nation are changing their abortion laws. In Colorado, a state board recently approved preliminary wording for a ballot initiative to ban abortions performed after 22 weeks. Exceptions would be permitted if a pregnant woman's health is in danger. Suzanne Staiert, attorney for the proponents of the bill, said she thinks "voters will agree that a fetus at 22 weeks is a person."

Staiert has put her finger on the question at the core of the abortion debate: is the fetus a person? After all, when the Supreme Court made abortion the law of the land in its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, its argument centered on its claim that the fetus is not a person under the 14th Amendment.

Essentially, the highest court in the land declared that even though the fetus is human, he is not a person entitled to protection under the law.

How did the Court justify drawing a distinction between being human and being a person? Is there a clear line that separates a human non-person from a person? How can a mere physical being, which is said to have so little value that he can be killed for any reason, be transformed into a person with such high value that to kill him would be murder? ............

Logically, however, the application of personhood theory is not going to stop at abortion and euthanasia.  Personhood has become the standard for the right to life of all human beings in America. 

Because the criteria for personhood are arbitrary, anyone could be demoted to a non-person and lose the right to property, liberty, and even life. Bioethicist Wesley J. Smith reveals that people who are considered "killable" now include "the terminally ill and chronically ill, such as a person with serious tinnitus [ringing in the ears], to people with disabilities ... alcoholics, dementia patients ... the elderly ... and mentally ill" — basically anyone the medical community deems no longer useful.

So if you thought you don't need to pay attention to the arguments in the abortion law changes sweeping the nation, think again.  Ultimately, all of us could be at risk................ To Read More