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To: Solon who wrote (10039)11/19/2010 4:39:18 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 69300
 
I did a half-hearted search and could not find the answer to the question that interested me ... how were "infants" defined. Of course, being cyberdeaf I could not listen to the original link. I find it hard to believe that Lynn would be talking about offing full-term people. In my experience that has been one of the toughest aspects of the everlasting combat between lifers and choicers. On the sliding scale from fertilized ovum to autonomous baby ... at which point does one assign the beginning of personhood?



To: Solon who wrote (10039)11/19/2010 6:05:14 PM
From: one_less  Respond to of 69300
 
It was a passing comment which seemed to jump out of her strand of commentary on biological evolution. She connected infant human personhood with the term 'self' and connected the infant's biological growth with sociological dependencies. If the infant is isolated it will not be able to take care of it's self and so development would not continue to childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, concluding the infant human being is not yet a person.


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