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To: Neocon who wrote (85801)11/12/2004 4:51:57 PM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 793896
 
You've got the dispute down, so what are the answers? <g> A line in the womb is bound to be as arbitrary as the line between the womb and the big wide world. I lean toward the opinion these days that the distinction is a purely social invention, so the only relevant calculus may be what we will as a society. Make it a pragmatic political decision and give up on the ethics arguments, which are probably intractible.

Derek



To: Neocon who wrote (85801)11/12/2004 5:03:23 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793896
 
I always thought that the traditional Jewish view of the foetus, which is that it is a potential person, made more sense practically and morally too. It's wrong to kill a potential person. But if you have to weigh the rights of the potential person against a full person, the mother, you have some leeway to make decisions. It gets round this all-or-nothing it is a person!/it isn't a person! argumentation.


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