{"id":23821,"date":"2012-11-28T11:56:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T16:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=23821"},"modified":"2012-11-28T15:46:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T20:46:29","slug":"human-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/human-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"Human potential"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My first question to the pro-abortion folks is, \u201cJust what is \u2018it\u2019 that is conceived?”<\/p>\n

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Unborn baby, 7 weeks after conception<\/p><\/div>\n

Is “it” an amphibian (since it lives in water) or perhaps a primate? I would argue that \u201cit\u201d is a human, and nothing else. Can any of you convince me otherwise?<\/p>\n

Now, I know that many of you might argue that \u201cit\u201d is not human yet; \u201cit\u201d is just a potential human. True – \u201cit\u201d is a human with potential. So to this I say: a two-year-old child is a human with potential. A fifteen-year-old child with autism is a human with potential. A forty-year-old man is a human with potential. We are all humans with potential!<\/p>\n

Why, then, do we single out a particular group of humans (the unborn) and pronounce that their \u201cpotential\u201d is somehow not protected under the same laws that protect every other human in our country?<\/p>\n

The Declaration of Independence is clear: \u201cWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.\u201d These unalienable rights are endowed by our creator, not by government. Creating human beings starts at the moment of conception; it is the first human experience of our lives. From that point on, we are endowed with human potential.<\/p>\n

As a tax-paying member of society, I want to pose the next question to everyone – to both pro-life and pro-abortion advocates. \u201cWhy should my taxpayer dollars go to fund the ending of human potential against my wishes?\u201d<\/p>\n

Right now our government has determined that the unborn are not protected because they are just potential humans who have not yet reached their human potential. So who will be next? Who will be deemed \u201cless than human\u201d? Will it be the aged who are too much of a drain on our wonderful government-funded health care system? Will it be the child with autism or Down syndrome?<\/p>\n

We seem to think that all children who are born should be perfect, that human potential can be realized only by perfect humans. What a sad world this would be without all those \u201cimperfect\u201d humans we meet every day. But wait a minute: we are all imperfect humans!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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