Aborting a Person

The anti-abortion “personhood’ measure on the ballot in Mississippi failed to win on Tuesday evening. Had this measure been won, a new nationwide dialogue on abortion would open and this State would have become the first state to define a fertilized egg as a person.

The measure was supported by Republicans and Democrats. This measure was tried before in Colorado in 2008 and 2010. There, voters rejected it more than two-to-one both times. Analysts are now seeking the reasons for the collapse of an initiative that seemed a sure thing just a few weeks ago.

Opponents say that this measure would criminalize birth control, affect in vitro fertilization practices, and force doctors to decline to provide pregnant cancer patients with chemotherapy.

The supporters believe that a fertilized egg is a human being endowed with rights. Ethical, medical, theological, libertarian, and metaphysical persons say that that this belief is a preposterous proposition.

I say that a fertilized egg is a human being because it is a whole that was created by an active God. This whole contains an infinite and uncountable number of indivisible parts. An active God creates all things in the universe the same way. Instantly, God creates an infinite number of different indivisible things. All of these indivisibles are immortal and form the dark matter. Then, God creates the universe (or light matter) by functionally relating each indivisible thing to all other indivisible things. These functional relations give each indivisible thing a body (or infrastructure). When God gives bodies to all indivisibles, an infinite number of mortal divisible things exist and form the first phase of the universe..

All persons thus begin as indivisible things and become living divisible things.  At death, a person becomes a part of the dark matter again where God can recreate that person again, and again, .....

So, when humans make a fertilized egg, an active God is involved.