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latenter: i read the thread and was aware of your post when i wrote what i did. your position operates under the assumption that there is a tipping point in fetal development past which the problem switches from one of the choice of the mother to some "right to life" on the part of the developing child. i don't think there is any such point, mostly because i reject the premise your argument operates from--that there is such a point that can be determined. but that's my view, and it isn't really germaine in the context of the paragraph you quoted. the point there had to do with the question of legality and by extension safety of the procedure.
i also argued that i think it patronizing in the extreme to imagine that unless such a tipping point is determined, women will go around having abortions as a type of recreational activity or some such. that the decision will suddenly become easy..i see that as a fantasy predicated on notions of man's fallennes that i see no reason to take seriously because, while i know the mythology that it comes from, i dont see it as more than a mythology.
this last argument links to my personal view which i outlined in the last paragraph of the post.
so while you are of course free to worry questions of largely hypothetical late-term abortions, the question you raise dont seem to me particularly interesting, precisely because the way you framed your post abstracts the phase of development of the child from all other factors, as if those factors don't matter. i see them as fundamental. that was the main point i made in the last paragraph of the post.
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