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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (190163)	6/14/2004 7:44:59 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576807

It's predictable but its arbitrary. It has no important backing as a significant distinction from biology, tradition, legal history or philosophy. Other definitions have all sorts of special conditions, for example the difference between a fetus which has been removed from the womb for surgery and then replaced to finish gestation, compared to a cesarian birth. That special condition is predictable enough. It can either be established as a special case, or it could be considered not to be a special case (and then the fetus would get the same rights it normally gets at birth when it is removed from the womb). Tim