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1/02/2003 06:20:00 PM | Timothy Eating Baby Flesh is Wrong, Dammit! I feel like I'm back in parliamentary debate when I hear Brad's wicked comments, so I'll approach it like that. I have to say I do not think you have to be against abortion to be against eating the flesh of dead babies. (I might note this case involves a stillborn baby: the person wasn't eating an aborted fetus or an early term embryo). I suppose the taboo against eating flesh is that: a taboo. But maybe we don't want people to eat the flesh of the dead in part because it might encourage them to cause people to be dead. But people don't abort in order to eat baby flesh, and I don't think we have to worry about that. I don't think Roe v. Wade has caused an epidemic of baby-burgers. But does this case remind us that still born babies (or fetuses, if you draw that implication) have some moral standing? Sure. The dead deserve respect as once living human beings. Even if you want to say fetuses deserve respect as potential human beings, this does mean dead potential human beings should be accorded full personhood. Someone else can comment on whether Christianity condemns cannibalism. (and for those of you who think eating baby flesh is wrong- explain to Brad why and also whether it's art to simply break taboos) perma link |
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