Will Planned Parenthood be charged with crimes against humanity once people realize that infanticide is wrong?

Answer 1

each person will stand before God on judgment day and answer for his sins.

Answer 2

I take it your problem is with those who consider abortion procedures to have a proper place in society.

There are many tissues in the human body that are indisputably human life, yet we consider it acceptable to remove them. Examples are cancerous tumors, wisdom teeth and warts.

When a human male ejaculates sperm, that sperm is fully human and it is alive. When a human female ovulates, the eggs she discards are fully human and life. No law would be taken seriously if it sought to restrain or regulate the disposition of unwanted sperm or the discharges of a woman's period.

However, there is one difference when a sperm unites with an egg. There is now, in some cases, the possibility that it may develop through a long series of steps to become a viable human life.

At present the position of the Roman Catholic Church is that "life" begins at that moment. however, for most of its history the Church taught that "life" begins at the "quickening," when the movement of a fetus becomes detectable.

The word "life" is put in quotes because of course the sperm and the egg were no less human and no less alive before they got together.

Other theologians have argued that "life" begins at birth. from the point of view of theology, what matters is when the alleged soul enters the tissue. This is "ensoulment" but that is purely a theological term, not a medical term.

But all this is really not very relevant to anything. What counts is not "life" or being "human". What matters is personhood.

All cultures have rites to mark the acquisition of personhood. It is usually a gradual step-by-step process. The law does not set out to protect what is "life" or "human." The law protects persons.

Personhood is not inborn. Personhood is granted by society. The rights that go with personhood are given to the individual gradually. That is why we have baptism, confirmation, the bar mitzvah, and the graduated assignment of rights - drive a car at 16, vote at 18, drink at 21, and be eligible to serve as president of the US at 35.

Society recognizes your rights of personhood, step by step. In the case of a fetus, the point is not whether it is human or whether it is life - it is both. The point is, when does it become a person?

That decision changes with time, as it should, because knowledge is not static. But as soon as society acknowledges that a person exists, whenever that may be, then the law kicks in to protect that person's rights.

Until society admits the individual to the status of a person, it is part of the body of a pregnant woman. Who is better qualified to decide what she may or may not do with her own body, than the woman herself?

Does anybody consider that the woman has less claim to control her own body than do cops, judges, politicians, and screaming protesters harassing her at the entrance to a clinic?

Why not let her consult with her own chosen advisers - family, pastor, doctors etc. - and let her then make for herself the decisions affecting her own body?

When a person exists it will be time to invoke the provisions of the law which protect persons. But to pretend that human tissue still far short of personhood has civil rights is absurd - as foolish as arguing that we should give the vote to a fetus.

Answer 3

For those who don't know infantcide is the killing of an infant. Once the sperm and the egg join a child with a soul is formed. It may not be able to survie on its own but it is still a living human being in the early stages of life. It is wrong. WHen that day comes there will be a lot of controversy about the issue but people will see it is wrong. Is murdering another persom wrong?? It is!!! Just because infants are defenseless and depend on their parents doesnt mean that they arent every bit as human as we are and if someone killed them they broke the 5th Commandent Thou Shall Not kill. Good question

Answer 4

Google it:

in·fan·ti·cide n.
1. The act of killing an infant.
2. The practice of killing newborn infants.

Now that that is cleared up . . . .

By definition, abortion is NOT infanticide.

But, I digress. To answer your question as posed:

Now why would you think that? Planned Parenthood is a group, not an individual. Who would be charged and exactly what "crimes against humanity" are you referring to?

Only God has the power and the authority to make that judgment. Because whether or not each of us, as individuals, agree or disagree tht abortion is wrong, the "crime" you refer to is not against humanity, it is against (or not against as you believe) God, so by default, it is God's judgment, not ours.

Blessings to you!

Answer 5

If not on this earth:
Rev 18-22
Matt 24-25
Luke 16:19-31

Answer 6

Probably not. Society will make some law or allowance for activities performed before people realized that infanticide is wrong. If in fact that day ever comes.

Answer 7

As infanticide is the act of killing an infant or a newborn baby the answer is no. A fetus is not an infant.

Answer 8

Infanticide is killing a baby. Anything that can't survive unless it's still connected to another human being is not an infant. A fetus is not an infant.

Answer 9

Who knows?
I'd be more concerned for a former partner of mine who miscarried.
Will she be hauled into the town square and stoned?
It doesn't matter that it wasn't her fault, does it?
I mean, that cluster of cells Was a human being, a potential Beethoven...
I'm sorry, do I seem to be ranting hysterically?
I didn't mean to take the spotlight off you.

Answer 10

frothy, frothy....

Planned Parenthood operates within the law. When will George Bush face the "crimes against humanity" squad for his illegalities?

Answer 11

let us hope that you or one of your loved ones never has to have an abortion as a medical necessity.

How would you ever live with yourself then