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Originally Posted by tisonlyi
I think maybe you should educate yourself about the outcomes for premature births between 16 and 26 weeks.
HINT: They're not pretty at all.
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Do you mean to imply that being unlikely to survive outside of a certain set of conditions (which must be provided at some cost by another individual) renders an entity undeserving of life?
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Originally Posted by Halanna
To me, it isn't. Organic matter reproducing doesn't constitute life. Neural activity at that point is, in my opinion, simply electrical impulses and does not equal life.
At it's most base, it's entirely true that a baby is not it's own entity until the cord is cut because the baby relies on the host body for survival, then it's sink or swim.
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What does equal life, in your opinion? And why does the baby become it's own entity when the cord is cut?
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Originally Posted by Latenter
Maybe I should quit posting for a while
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Please don't. I think you're bringing up some good points.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
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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I think Latenter's point (and I hope to be corrected if I've misinterpreted) is that the determination of whether or not the fetus counts as a human life trumps all (or most) other factors. If it is a life, than the non-fatal health issues that the woman faces are not sufficiently important to allow abortion, and if it isn't a life, then abortion is not ethically different from having a mole removed. The focus on developmental stage is an effort to determine whether or not a fetus is a life.