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To: TimF who wrote (14977)	11/22/2006 6:05:48 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Sorry I wasn't very clear. Before birth, the mother makes all the decisions. For this example, let's say she decides to continue drinking alcohol. Essentially, she decides that both of them could use a drink once in a while. Believe me, this is not a stretch; I've heard of a woman who always had a couple of glasses of wine to 'calm the baby down' and stop it from kicking so much. Stupid, but I don't think the mother could be arrested for it. Before birth, there is no way to stop the mother from drinking, because the state does not recognize the fetus as a child. After birth, if the mother employed this same method to quiet the kid, child protective services would be right to take the baby away. So, if you start granting 'rights' to the fetus, you have to deal with these legal and moral issues of the lack of physical separation of the mother and baby. In the example, the child gained moral and legal rights that, by definition, require the child to be born.