{"id":969,"date":"2010-01-04T16:05:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T16:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=407"},"modified":"2010-01-04T16:05:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T16:05:54","slug":"hallmarks-of-a-human-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=969","title":{"rendered":"hallmarks of a human being&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just in the process of preparing a talk I&#8217;ll be giving at Notre Dame University toward the end of the month. \u00a0 I hold to a Consistent Life Ethic that sets me against poverty, pollution, abortion, euthanasia&#8230; and anything else that can end life prematurely. \u00a0 Today I was writing a segment about abortion. \u00a0 I noted that in the womb there are 10 fingers, 10 toes and a heartbeat. \u00a0 Now it wouldn&#8217;t take, say, a top-flight physician at the Mayo Clinic to figure out that these are: THE HALLMARKS OF A HUMAN BEING! \u00a0 Yet while the fact seems so basic, so simple, many in society have come up with a tremendously complex set of rationalizations (read: rational lies) to justify killing these little babies. \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 <em>While in Mansfield, Ohio, to give a Pro-life talk, I noticed the following bumper sticker: \u00a0 <strong>&#8220;Call me extreme, but I think dismembering babies in their mothers&#8217; wombs is wrong.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just in the process of preparing a talk I&#8217;ll be giving at Notre Dame University toward the end of the month. \u00a0 I hold to a Consistent Life Ethic that sets me against poverty, pollution, abortion, euthanasia&#8230; and anything <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=969\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}