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Originally posted by smooth
But it holds up now. We can't base our policy decisions on faith--and that includes predicting what science will do in the future.
Shouldn't members of a liberal democracy based on the ideals of rationality from the enlightenment rely on scientific proof rather than conjecture?
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I am agnostic, so I do not base any of my policy decisions (per se) on faith.
I base my beliefs on abortion on the documented fact that roughly 12 weeks into a pregnancy a fetus/unborn child/"parasitic mass" has its very own heart beat, and thus is a separate living organism which will develop into a human. There is no doubt that a human embryo will develop into a human if it is allowed to live, so the argument of "well, it isn't yet!" doesn't really seem valid to me.