That's not what I said. I don't care what the time picked is. It's all arbitrary. Nothing "magical" happens, but people are uncomfortable killing babies the day before a woman delivers (understandably, imo). It's the squeemish factor- and that's fine. What we do works, except for people who want to call a fertilized egg a person.
"When it becomes a child" is just semantics, as far as I'm concerned, and not to denigrate semantics, but I don't care when it becomes a child. According to the dictionary a child can either be "a human fetus" OR "a person between birth and adulthood". Not sure the whole "child" thing really solves this. For emotional reasons most people probably call the stages when they approve of abortion non-children, and the stages later as children. I don't find the need to do that, so it isn't an issue for me.
Freakonomics is a book. It was really interesting, and I think you might like it:
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As for abortion, I understand where you are coming from. I just don't agree with the way you see it. I wouldn't force a guy to undergo a process that dramatically physically transformed him for 9 months, and might result in major surgery, if he didn't want to do it, and I wouldn't do that to a woman. That there is a potential other life involved doesn't concern me. It's not an already born life, and as an already born, it is the rights of already borns that concern me. I worry about already born abused and neglected children. When they are all cared for, maybe I'll learn to care about potential lives in being- but probably not. |
