tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174185507644054433.post4883730933906337687..comments2023-06-22T04:12:22.828-05:00Comments on ivy rosary: Galileo's troubles continue(Joe Zimmerman)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16785598522396951782noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174185507644054433.post-44235903149299588712017-08-17T11:47:30.001-05:002017-08-17T11:47:30.001-05:00Joe, just jogging your memory a bit: back in semin...Joe, just jogging your memory a bit: back in seminary days we saw that Thomas Aquinas and most other medieval thinkers followed Aristotle and held that human life did not begin until "quickening" (the point at which the movements of the embryo could be felt by the mother). That detail of Thomas thinking did not make it into the official notion.<br /><br />I appreciated the Wolter/Shannon piece when it first appeared, with the awareness that it was not talking about when protectable human life began but rather when an individual human life began It is a further question to determine whether or not that individual human life is <br />as inviolable as the anti-abortionists want it to be.<br /><br />I would quibble with your characterization of the Democratic party as "anti-life" - that label seems to be much more fitting for the Republicans who oppose welfare, defend capital punishment, wax eloquent about the defense budget. I recall the wisecrack made during the Reagan era that he defended the unborn up to the point of birth and then abandoned them.<br /><br />Thank for your post.<br /><br />ClydeClydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14511826018837200158noreply@blogger.com