<<<For me, I place both jews and fetuses in the "us" category.
They are both people. They both have the full genetic
capacity to be or become human beings.>>>
Jews have the capacity to be human beings? I know this was a misspeaking, Christopher.
And the difference between a Jew and an embryo is the difference you grant, by implication:
The Jew is, or has become, a human person.
The embryo is not, has not become, a human person.
The pregnant, adult woman is, however. And yet you would make her choice for her, forcing her with the power of the government, into compulsory motherhood, so that the "organism" (to borrow Neocon's term) that has not yet, by your admission, become a person, will become one, against her will, in her abdomen.
And if she does insist on preventing this from taking place inside her body, you would have her do it by the back alley route only, if she is too poor to fly to Europe as will all those who don't share your metaphysics but do share your class. And if she is caught, you would have her punished.
What is your position about the "mercy" exceptions Neo would grant to some women, if he approved of their grounds for pleading for medical help? |
