According to the Catholic Church is there anything special about a heartbeat?
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I don't know if it was theological, as it was trying to fit into Roe v. Wade as settled law. Though the stare decisis view of Roe v. Wade is often debated, it is likely that it will not be rescinded. It's kind of like how the Catholic church, and other churches like the Lutheran Church, never actually renounce what was once said in terms of public pastoral doctrine. Things are just reinterpreted. That's what may happen in American law. The opinion of Roe v. Wade can be accessed here.
Blackmun, in Roe v. Wade, said: "We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins." That being said it looks to me that, despite that comment, the decision in Roe v. Wade was that "viability" is a demarcation for when a fetus is to be treated as fully human & to be affirmed as a "person" within the language and meaning of the 14th Amendment.
What is actually in the Texas law that could overturn Roe. v. Wade? It looks to me that Roe v. Wade understood "viability" as the same as "quickening." I don't view Roe v. Wade as necessarily concluding that the cutting of the umbilical cord is officially when viability begins.
If viability is roughly the same as "quickening" than the formation of the heart is important.
So, while biological life begins at conception, the question that Roe. v. Wade did not answer very well (in my opinion) was when does a fetus become fully human & to be affirmed as a "person" within the language and meaning of the 14th Amendment?
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