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We were all once in the womb and we all desire life. How can we presume that an unborn human does not desire the right to life, a right we give freely to someo
by bennettfeely 11y ago
We were all once in the womb and we all desire life.
How can we presume that an unborn human does not desire the right to life, a right we give freely to someone who is born?
- icebraining 11y agoI think the error here is treating "unborn human" as a single type of creature. A 2 week embryo is not the same as a 18 week fetus. That's why many (most?) abortion laws only authorized it during the first few weeks of gestation. So, regarding your question, we can't. That's why we don't allow for the abortion of any unborn person, just a subset.
- bennettfeely 11y agoYour analogy is not a correct anymore than saying because a newborn baby is not an adult, therefore, the baby is not a human. I don't think it's an error we treat both a newborn and an adult as a "single type of creature".
- icebraining 11y agoI didn't make an analogy. I'm saying that an early stage unborn simply doesn't have the features that make it a person or be able to have desires. Like a working brain.