Tuesday, December 28, 2004

I Love My Two Little Entities

I love my two young sons dearly -- certainly right from when I saw them in mid-gestation courtesy of ultrasound technology. If you haven't had the experience of seeing ultrasounds of your child then I respectfully suggest you're rather less than qualified to flap your gums about when life starts.

James puts the libs problems with "entities" and the realities of life in a pretty stunning light with this entry:
Where Do Babies Come From?
You probably heard about this horrific story that broke just as we were leaving on vacation: A woman was charged with murdering another woman in Missouri. The victim was eight months pregnant, and the suspect, who wanted a baby, allegedly cut the victim's womb open and took the . . . well, what did she take exactly?

A Dec. 17 Associated Press headline read, "Search On for Fetus Cut From Mother's Womb." But the first sentence of the story reads: "Police were trying to find an infant they believe could still be alive after being cut from the womb of its mother." So was this a fetus or an infant? The young entity eventually was found alive, and a Dec. 19 CNN.com headline seems to answer the question definitively: "Dad United With Kidnapped Girl."
Read the rest...