Steven Woodworth – 400 year old definition of human is outdated, 2000 year old catholic dogma and the bible apparently not so much.

The amount of dissonance required to stop his head from exploding with all the contradictory arguments rattling around his skull must be immense.

“Whatever views one has about other issues, does it make medical sense in the 21st century to say a child is not a human being until the moment of complete birth?” Mr. Woodworth said.

Two things

• The question of being human is a legal one not a medical one, aren’t you religious types constantly telling us that science can only find out facts not determine ethics and morality? (I don’t agree with that but it is the argument you guys use.) And
• Are you a doctor? Nope you are a lawyer.  So how do you know what makes medical sense?

“I’ve concluded that 21st Century modern medical science informs us that children are certainly human beings before the moment of complete birth”, he says, challenging those who disagree to produce medical evidence which supports the existing Canadian law.

Again with the medical pronouncements, still a lawyer are we?

“If there’s justification for a law which defines anyone as less than a human when that person is clearly a human being, let Canadians hear it.  If there’s a principled reason why Parliament has no duty to update this 400 year old law which has such important consequences, let’s hear it”.

Ah definitely a lawyer and one who has already decided the answer to the question he insists needs to be asked. I really hope this guy never becomes a judge if this is his idea of honestly assessing the evidence.

Now we come to the real reason behind this Mr Woodworth’s belief in a sky faerie.

Though Woodworth is Catholic, he is more interested in medical evidence and universal principles than in religious arguments or in having his religious faith become the focus.

I’m sure he does.

Woodworth noted the scientific discoveries have accelerated in the past 50 years. Scientists now have DNA evidence, ultrasound and other techniques to show the development of the unborn child, techniques sophisticated enough to allow doctors to perform surgery on the child inside the womb. That evidence was not available when the law as it stands now was drafted.

Being a good catholic means obeying the church and their 2000 year old doctrine of faith. Apparently medical advances like contraception, aids prevention, abortion etc are not to be taken into account when looking to revise the ramblings of cattle farming illiterates from the middle east and the machinations of the early church fathers.

“It is truly very encouraging to consider the new, rational, science-based arguments being put forward by Mr. Woodworth and by all those who support his call for a new debate on the legal status of the unborn child,” said COLF director Michele Boulva. “All people of good will can agree on these arguments.”

Except I never read any medical arguments for reformulating the law on when a foetus becomes a human being. I saw a list of procedures rattled off by an ignorant man who tried to appear knowledgeable in an effort to support a position he already has. But I have read medical advice that recommends abortion in the case of an ectopic pregnancy because the mother is a human, while what is growing within her isn’t.

It looks like there is more to this than Mr Woodworth wanted to reveal. Notice the lie about some abortions not being abortions. So now the followers of a 2000 year old illiterate carpenter get to redefine inconvenient words? I guess that that is why a lie isn’t a lie if you do it for Jesus.

Once more this an attempt by the religiously deluded to try and control people’s bodies and how they use them. Just like creationists tried to hijack the language of science in intelligent design, so Woodworth travels down the same route. Just as ID was found to be pseudoscience so will this attempt by the superstitious to force their madness on the rest of us.