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A Weekly Column By Walter B. Hoye II
In the abortion debate, is there a "Conflict of Interest" within the Black community and among her leaders?
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Definitions Define Us
According to Dictionary.Com, the most-visited and most trusted online dictionary in the world and for my purposes conveniently located in Oakland, California, a "human being" is "[1] any individual of the genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo Sapiens. [2] a person, especially as distinguished from other animals or as representing the human species. [3] a member of any of the races of Homo sapiens; person; man, woman, or child" 1 Biblically speaking, God created the first human being 2,3 and by way of the Strong's Dictionary the word man (!"#"$) used in Genesis 1:26 is 'adam awdawm', an individual or the species, mankind (i.e. a human being). 4
"human being" can be conceptualized as illustrated in figure 1 on the left. 5 Here we find a world of words connected by solid lines that have the same meaning (i.e., synonyms). Their meanings are in turn represented by circles, color-coded to indicate the part of our speech, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs that they belong to. Antonyms or words that express opposite concepts and are visually connected by dashed red lines.
Again, words connected by solid lines have the same meaning and words connected by dashed red lines such as the term nonhuman express the exact opposite meaning. If definitions are linguistic expressions of ourselves, who we are and specifically who is and by default who is not among us, then regardless of our ability to demonstrate "self-awareness, volition and rationality" clearly all of us are human.
Legally, a person has been recognized by the law as a person, not because he or she is human, but because rights and duties have been ascribed to him or her by those who have already been ascribed such rights and duties. 6 This, in part, explains why women, children, non-landowners, minorities, slaves, etc., have been legally oppressed over the years. Right now, the child inside the womb is fighting for such rights and duties. Without such rights and duties (i.e., 'personhood' a term used by Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Harry Andrew Blackmun in Roe v. Wade 7) the child inside the womb, an innocent human being, can be killed, in all 50 states, through all nine months of pregnancy, for virtually any reason at all, even though it is illegal to take the life of an innocent human being.
08. Sanger, Margaret (1938). Margaret Sanger, An Autobiography. New York: W. W. Norton. p. 217. 09. Wikipedia, Planned Parenthood (http://bit.ly/4AgtGW). 10. "The Place of Women on the Court", NYTimes.com, Thursday, July 9th, 2009 (http://bit.ly/hI1Nfq). 11. Proverb 6:16,17, "These six things does the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him. A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood." (King James Version) (http://bit.ly/vpI8oP).
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