So an acorn is not an organism? That’s gonna be big news to a lot of botanists. And an agg is not an organism? That will probably surprise the hell outa the zoologists, especially the ornithologists.

‘Scuse me, but you don’t mind if I get my scientific definitions from real scientists, do you?

Pul-ease!

Nobody is discounting him because he’s not “old enough”… he’s discounted because he’s a bloody fetus!! (sheesh!)

When you’re through forcing women to carry babies (they DON’T want) to term are you going to start campaigning for fetus driver’s licences too? I mean, they’re human beings right? They deserve the right to drive… (roll eyes).

“All human beings are equal.”

First of all, that’s not true. Second of all, how is a 2 month fetus in need of mummy’s body to grow for another 7-8 months equal to a person running around the playground??

Oh right – I know. The 2 month fetus is important to the pro-lifer, but once they’re born they’re not important anymore. Adoption? Foster homes? Unfit parents in way over their head?? Ahhhh, that’s not important right? The important thing is you managed to get a woman to carry this unwanted fetus to term – no need inconveniencing yourself with what happens to it once it’s born… that’s not your fight is it?

An acorn is not an oak tree because it’s not an organism.

Same thing with an egg. Not an organism.

A fetus is an organism of the species homo sapiens, i.e. a human being.

Discounting him because he’s not “old enough” to be a human being in your book is the same kind of discrimination that has been practiced in the past: a person of the wrong color was not a human being; a person of the wrong gender; a person of the wrong ethnic group, etc.

All human beings are equal.

An acorn is not an oak tree. An egg is not a chicken. A fetus is not a person.

When people believe in human rights, they don’t back down.

I will continue to persuade people that unborn children are equal human beings who deserve the right to life. And when a critical threshold has been reached, fetal rights legislation will be passed in Canada, and the human rights of ALL human beings in Canada will be respected.

You’ve heard of condoms? You know about responsibility? If you’re not man enough to take your own responsibility for contraception, then how about you swallow a bit of your own bitter medicine, eh?

If, after both you and your partner have made sincere efforts at contraception, she still gets pregnant, then you both have some decisions to make, and quickly. So I’d suggest you start planning now, while there’s still time.

If she wants to have a baby and you don’t, then you have to settle it between you. This is a private concern, not a societal one. Whatever arrangement is finally arrived at will affect only you and her, not society as a whole.

On the other hand, you’d like the personal freeedom to force an entire society to live by rules that don’t suit them. Not. Gonna. Happen.

Does that mean, Chimera, that if I impregnate a woman who decides, unilaterally, to bring that baby to term and keep it that she cannot sue me in order to get child support? After all, she has no right to force me to live by her rules…