Comments on: “You Know, An Unintended Event…”

By: pentamom

pentamom — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:56:35 +0000

Comment #10 makes me think of drunk driving. No drunk ever intends to have an accident and kill people. But the “oh, wow, how did that happen” sense of the way Dr. Reddy uses “unintended event” wouldn’t get him very far with the cops.

By: Tom Gilson

Tom Gilson — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:40:45 +0000

Eli,

Conception is not an unintended event, it’s an unintended outcome of an intended event. It’s also a fairly predictable outcome in certain circumstances. To treat it otherwise is morally obtuse.

Furthermore, suppose we treated conception as the unintended event in spite of the above. If a couple has sex, pregnancy could result without having been intended. If I blindfold myself and run through a shopping mall, I might knock a child down without intending to do so. “Unintended events,” when they are as predictable as these, are really the moral equivalent of intentional ones.

By: EM

EM — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:01:41 +0000

Very well written!

By: Eli

Eli — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:34:20 +0000

Now seriously, are you honestly biased enough not to understand that the “unintended event” in question is conception and not sex? That’s really quite clear from what she said, so I’m not sure how it’s possible to construe her as saying something different.

By: Tom Gilson

Tom Gilson — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:28:58 +0000

It was your choice of the word “life” that made it easy. If you had said “moral significance as a human being,” it would have required more of an answer

By: Truth Unites... and Divides

Truth Unites... and Divides — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:34:38 +0000

“Didn’t know that was a difficult question.”

C’mon Tom. I know you must have argued with pro-abortionists before.

By: Tom Gilson

Tom Gilson — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:37:37 +0000

Wow.

Didn’t know that was a difficult question.

By: Truth Unites... and Divides

Truth Unites... and Divides — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:38:22 +0000

“Did I mention it’s effective a full five mornings after?

Wow.

Can’t wait for someone here at Evangel to write a blogpost on “When does Life begin?”

By: Tom Gilson

Tom Gilson — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:25:06 +0000

Did I mention it’s effective a full five mornings after?

By: Tom Gilson

Tom Gilson — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:17:33 +0000

Marketing. You don’t always get the whole truth.

By: Truth Unites... and Divides

Truth Unites... and Divides — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:10:16 +0000

“The new “emergency contraception,” just approved by the FDA, is EllaOne, a “morning-after” pill that is actually an abortifacient.”

Why don’t they call it an abortifacient?