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To: The Philosopher who wrote (3548)1/6/2003 8:05:38 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (3) of 7720
 
One can, of course, pass a law making abortion illegal in the third trimester. But what is the legal justification for that?

Obviously, I don't think there is one.

But then what IS it, and what gives it the right to exist if the mother wants to stop carrying it?

It doesn't have any right to exist. It doesn't have any rights at all. That's my point. If you want to protect fetuses and make a public statement on the value that society places on them, it has to be done on some other grounds than the right of the fetus, IMO. I suggested injury to some actual person. Like the mother or father or other interested party. Of course, under that scheme, if no interested party comes forward, the fetus is SOL. It wouldn't cover every single late term abortion. But it would enable consideration for a fetus, most of them, without distorting the notion of what a person is.
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