re: #711 austin_blue

Sadly “experts” don’t make public policy. When you say that “others” should decide, you are using it as an excuse to not state what *you* believe. C’mon, get your ass out there! What do *you* think?

I am not a medical professional or a scientist in a biological field. It would just be talking out of my ass for me to express a strong opinion about the point where “life begins” as far as the abortion issue is concerned. What I do think is if you give 535 mostly non-doctors the power to decide a medical issue, there’s a good chance you wont like the result. They can, however delegate policy on the issue by law to a more appropriate panel of doctors.

Bottom line what I’m saying is that I’m not comfortable giving the government the power to arbitrarily decide when life begins and ends with little or no input from medical professionals. Congress members often have noodles for spines. They have to face loud mouth activists (pro/anti/left/right/whatever) with signs that show up at their offices and town hall meetings.

They could say life begins at conception, they could say 12 weeks, they could say anything. They can change it when ever they feel like it. They could, by fiat, ban abortion entirely and force people in Terry Schiavo’s condition to be kept alive on artificially indefinitely for example. Viability should be left to the medical profession to determine.

If you insist on pushing me for an opinion, I’m ok with abortions throughout the first trimester and after for emergency reasons but like I said, I am not a doctor, not in the government, and I don’t have a uterus so I am not in much of a position to have a weight-holding opinion.