After the Sen. Pelosi embarrassment on Meet the Press, you would think that Sen. Biden would have figured out a better way to explain how he says he is Catholic and pro-abortion, yet his answer to the exact same question “When does life begin” makes my head hurt with its incoherence.
All the Democrats I know are very pro-science, yet when science says that life begins at conception, all of sudden the question of when life begins is answered by “It’s a matter of my private faith”. No it isn’t. And guess what, Sen. Biden? Both your Catholic faith’s teachings and science agree that life begins at conception, and so morally, killing that life is murdering a human being.
If you don’t believe that, then you need to both give up your Catholic faith and join a church that endorses your erroneous views as well as give up your claims on believing in science, ’cause this is 7th grade life science stuff.
When I homeschooled a few years ago, I used a secular science book for my sixth grader. The Harcourt book said clearly something which I have repeated many times since: “You began life as a single cell.”
If the secular science books can admit the obvious scientific fact, why not Ms. Pelosi?
Oops, meant to say “…why not Mr. Biden?” but really I guess it’s the same thing, eh??
I don’t think you are accurately covering VP Biden or Representative Pelosi’s positions. Neither addressed the issue of when biological life is created. Rather what they do is agree with Aquinas that ensoulment is a 2 step process
The sensitive soul is created by fertilization but the intellectual soul happens much later (about 2 months). Sex merely creates a human like animal, actual humanity requires a divine miracle. To argue that sex produces souls Aquinas considers to be traducianism, a heresy.
Even the Catholic encyclopedia holds that, “none of the Fathers maintained Traducianism — the parental generation of the soul — as a certainty”. Pelosi was absolutely correct in her reading of the fathers. And Biden was taking his queue from her theological argument.
Now I understand that you are going to hold that reading the church fathers and coming to a conclusion opposite the magisterium on a matter of faith and morals, is still forbidden regardless of how much evidence there is. But lets be clear this is not a question of ignorance at all. Rather Pelosi and Biden are notable spokespeople who hold that the Church is misrepresenting the deposit of faith.