Abortion Views

[Nefrodite]

obvious differnce being there is no arguement against a fully born child being a full human being think of a better arguement.

 

[WhiteKnight]

What you are saying and/or implying is exactly true. There's no arguement against a fully born child being a human being. The arguement is only against an unborn child being a full human being. What I'm saying is that I don't fully believe that a clump of cells represents a human being. I do draw a distinction between the trimesters, but again, that's gray area. I think that abortion should be legal up to a point, but I do not feel qualified to determine what that point is.

Edit: Sorry, nefrodite, I misunderstood what you were saying.

 

[Mursilis]

Originally posted by: Nefrodite
obvious differnce being there is no arguement against a fully born child being a full human being

Actually, there's a prominent philosophy professor (at Harvard, I believe) who has suggested that infants don't deserve the same rights as fully cognizant and fully grown humans, so you're wrong about there being 'no argument' on the issue (not that I support that point of view). Many years ago, lots of 'respectable' people held the belief that blacks/Jews/women/whatever were not fully 'human', or at least not human enough to deserve all the rights afforded to adult white males. Remember slavery? Remember when women (like children today) could not own property in their own name? The point is, what's open to debate one century may be obvious in the next.