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Politics : Evolution
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To: Greg or e who wrote (10542)12/6/2010 4:32:31 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
> Unless we are willing to assign “personhood” proportionate to ability (young children, for example, might be only 20 percent human, while people with myopia 95 percent), the limited abilities of prenatal humans are irrelevant to their status as human beings. <

The article does an injustice if it seriously seeks to link the argument of fetal viability with such a strange and counterintuitive thesis of "partial personhood". It's bad logic.
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