At what point does the soul enter a human body? Allow me to back up a step, do you believe in the existence of a soul? The mere posing of the question in America is made possible by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Without the first amendment the United States government could prohibit my freedom to ask the question and could prohibit your freedom to believe what you’d like about the soul. And because of that freedom you are safe to believe in the soul and with it when the soul joins these vessels we call bodies. I say this because the question of a soul is not scientific. It is not something that the realm of science can measure or detect. Because of this it falls under our beliefs. But the very amendment that allows you the freedom to believe whenever you want about ensoulment is the same amendment that allows me to disagree with your belief.
Some believe ensoulment happens at the moment of conception.
Some believe when the child takes the first breath after being born.
Some believe at the formation of the nervous system and brain.
Some believe at the first brain activity, heartbeat.
Some believe at viability or when the fetus is able to survive independently of the uterus.
Some believe at quickening.
Whatever your belief you must understand that your freedom to believe is the very same freedom for others to disagree.
There are people in this country who believe killing or eating animals is murder. But what if someone doesn’t believe that? What if that person believes it’s fine to eat animals because they believe animals don’t have a soul, or culturally they’ve decided which animals are acceptable to kill and eat? Should they be forced to follow another person’s religion or belief? Should vegans be allowed to force their belief system through government to prohibit the killing of animals?
There are people in this country who believe in the existence of a soul and believe that soul enters the human vessel at conception or heartbeat. These people believe that a woman who is pregnant must carry that fetus to birth or it is murder. But what if that woman doesn’t believe that? What if that woman’s belief is that ensoulment happens at first independent breath? Should she be forced to follow another person’s religion? Isn’t that unAmerican?
On June 14, 1967, Governor of California Ronald Reagan signed the Therapeutic Abortion Act. It was the most liberal abortion bill in the country at the time. In 1968, a conference sponsored by the Christian Medical Society and Christianity Today refused to characterize abortion as sinful, citing “individual health, family welfare, and social responsibility” as justifications for ending a pregnancy.
In January 1973, the Supreme Court issued a 7–2 decision ruling that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides a "right to privacy" that protects a pregnant woman's right to choose whether or not to have an abortion. Among the concurrences Justice Harry Blackmun wrote, "The attending physician, in consultation with his patient, is free to determine, without regulation by the State, that, in his medical judgment, the patient’s pregnancy should be terminated.” W. Barry Garrett of Baptist Press wrote, “Religious liberty, human equality and justice are advanced by the Supreme Court abortion decision.” W. A. Criswell, the Southern Baptist Convention’s former president said: “I have always felt that it was only after a child was born and had a life separate from its mother that it became an individual person ...and it has always, therefore, seemed to me that what is best for the mother and for the future should be allowed.”
Time and time again in the 20th century we see governors like Mr. Reagan, Justices like Blackmun, pastors, and christian news outlets all advocating that the government should have no say in the healthcare decisions of citizens. The Supreme Court said it would be against the fourteenth amendment, I believe it would be against our first amendment for the government to force a religious belief upon all people about ensoulment or the beginning of life.
Imagine for a second you are walking down the street and suddenly some doors fly open along the sidewalk. A doctor runs out of the building points at you and says, “Come quick I need your blood. If you don’t this patient will die!” Would you stop what you were doing and follow the doctor? Let’s say you do. After the doctor hooks you up to some equipment she tells you, thanks to you the patient will live. As you get up to leave the doctor stops you and says, “Wait you can’t leave, you have to stay connected to this patience for a year.” The patient cannot live without your body contributing to their existence. At this point if you tell the doctor you would like to be unhooked, would you be committing murder?
If we are going to identify the very minute a fetus becomes a human and if our government is going to determine that human has rights while simultaneously having their existence 100% tethered to the life and rights of another then we really need to start reevaluating the rights of all people in this country.
Roe v Wade determined that the government has no right to get involved in the confidential discussions between a doctor and their patient. If you believe the government should absolutely get involved then you are obviously pro a government forced mask mandate during a pandemic. Every life is special and in order to protect the sanctity of life you should be advocating for a mandatory shut down of the county and masks whenever out of the house punishable with jail time.
In March of 2007 I was watching the NCAA men’s basketball tournament as I do every year when I saw a news flash. Jason Ray, a UNC senior and Tar Heels mascot, had been struck by a car while walking along the shoulder of a highway, on his way to buy a burrito at a convenience store. He wasn’t much older than me at the time. 10 years later in 2017 I saw his name again in the news. “UNC mascot Jason Ray died but his parents assure his spirit lives on” the article said because the 21-year-old was an organ donor, his death helped save or improve the lives of more than 60 other families. 60 other families.
If you are Anti abortion because you believe it is the loss of a life then you must also advocate for forced mandatory organ donation. Taking it a step further if 20 people die every day waiting for an available organ and one donor can save eight lives then it makes logical sense that you should be advocating for the murder and harvesting organs of three donors per day. If you claim to be pro life but haven’t offered to kill yourself in order to save 8 peoples lives today then I’m not sure you can demand a woman to adhere to your beliefs when you yourself don’t follow them.
If you’re thinking, If they didn’t want to get pregnant they shouldn’t have had sex. Then you believe purpose of sex is procreation. I ask you, is the purpose of gun ownership murder? Sex is designed to procreate. Likewise guns are designed to murder. If you can’t understand a secondary purpose of sex as an expression or anything else then I’m sure you also cannot find a reason for gun ownership other than the intent to murder and as a pro life person you must then logically be against the ownership of any and all firearms as they serve only one single purpose. You must then advocate to abolish the second amendment. If you claim to be pro life but haven’t demanded all gun owners be imprisoned for conspiracy to commit murder then I’m not sure you can demand a woman to adhere to your beliefs when you yourself don’t follow them.
Since 1980 there have been 61,655 U.S. Casualties in wars. Obviously all pro life advocates are screaming for the end of all wars. This number isn’t even counting the non American lives lost. Pro life advocates would never consider supporting the troops. If you claim to be pro life but haven’t demanded all soldiers and politicians who condone military action be imprisoned then I’m not sure you can demand a woman to adhere to your beliefs when you yourself don’t follow them.
Since 1976 more than 1,500 citizens have been executed because of the death penalty. All pro life advocates must be protesting and voting EXCLUSIVELY for politicians that will put an end to the death penalty.
193 People have died in ICE immigration detention from 2004 to 2019. All pro life advocates must be demanding our government abolish ICE.
“In 2017, there were 22 cities that reported the number of people experience homelessness who lost their lives without a place to call home. Out of those cities that reported, 2,525 homeless community members passed away. Consulting reports about deaths of people experiencing homelessness in 2016, we estimate that at least 13,000 people pass away each year while without housing.” From NationalHomeless.org If you are Anti abortion because you believe it is the loss of a life then you must also advocate for forced mandatory empty room donations. No pro life person could stand to have an empty room in their home while at least 13,000 Americas die without housing. Every pro life voter must be pushing to make a vacant room in a house illegal. Just as a woman must sacrifice her body without her consent in order to preserve life, so should every pro life person be forced by the government to fill their spare rooms with people who are homeless with the need for their consent.
“Depending upon the study, we can derive that between 20,000 and 45,000 Americans die each year due to a lack of health insurance.” All pro life advocates must demand that the
Individual Mandate of the ACA stay in place and also that the ACA does not go far enough that we must demand universal healthcare for every person. If you have enough money in your bank account to afford health insurance to a person who cannot afford it and you willingly choose to selfishly keep that money knowing tens of thousands die each year from it then you cannot be pro life. A pro life American would advocate the government commandeer those funds from every bank account in order to protect the sanctity of life.
Police murder around 1,000 citizens each year before they ever get to have their day in court. Because of this every pro life advocate must demand we end qualified immunity for police officers who murder citizens. Along with advocating to abolish the police. It is impossible to call for women to use their bodies to sustain another life without demanding to abolish a government system that allows on average nearly 3 lives per day to be murdered.
If you believe your religious views should be forced upon all Americans then you also believe vegans have the right to decide what foods you can and cannot consume. If you believe a woman should be forced to carry her unwanted pregnancy to birth for the sanctity of life, you also believe guns should be illegal, organs should be harvested daily from young healthy bodies, the government should enforce a federal mask mandate, all American wars should cease, the pentagon defunded immediately, abolition of the death penalty and ICE, the government should have the authority to force every homeowner to provide spare bedrooms to those without shelter, funds be taken from American bank accounts and distributed for those without healthcare, and the police be defunded immediately.
Unless of course you’re just a fucking piece of shit hypocrite that doesn’t actually care about the sanctity of life. But if you do honestly claim to be pro life then I ask you, how many spare rooms you got? How many healthcare plans have you got sitting in your bank account? And why the fuck are you hording those organs when 8 people need them today you self centered hypocrite fuck?