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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Father Terrence who wrote (82849)6/24/2000 7:41:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
>Here is a case where science has refused to define when life becomes human life. This is one of science's
failures, and I believe it to be a failure more from cowardice rather than lack of data. <

This is imo outside the purview of science. Human life is continuous from zygote to the deathbed. The issue is perhaps better captured with the term personhood. We all agree that a born baby is a person. We all agree (I think!) that a not-yet-fertilized ovum is not a person. Depending on a mix of morality and expediency, people will assign personhood to the developing prenate anywhere between fertilization and full-term birth.

But at our current level of scientific knowledge we cannot determine what is an irreducibly moral judgment. Where along the developmental continuum do we rule that the embryo/fetus becomes a person, a citizen?
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