Question: When does a baby get human rights in your view?

“Mega-pastor” Rick Warren (Purpose-driven Life) posed this question during a televised forum at Saddleback Church.

Check out what the contending US presidential aspirants Barack Obama and John McCain has to say.

Turn up the volume, it is also interesting how the audience reacts to each one.



Ok, here's a partial transcript:

WARREN: When does a baby get human rights in your view?

OBAMA: “ah..ah..I think that..ahh… whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, ah...answering that question with specificity …you know..is..ahh..ah...is...is...is above my pay grade.”

AUDIENCE: Huh?!? Gasp!! Whoah!
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WARREN: When does a baby get human rights in your view?

McCAIN: "At the moment of conception."

AUDIENCE: Yehey!!! Whooh!!! Clap-clap-clap-clap!!! Yehey!!! Whooh!!! Clap-clap-clap-clap!!!
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ME: I wonder how much pay grade one needs, to be able answer such a simple question in all honesty.

Now with regards to the local scene, how come Congressional Representatives Lagman, Garin, Biazon, et al, do not make a clear stand on such a question? They say they are against abortion, yet they advocate abortifacients? Huh?!? Gasp!! Whoah! That is the same as saying: "I..ahh..you know..ahh..ahh....my pay grade says....ah..ah... it's just a leaping mass of tissue."