07-31-2016, 09:00 AM
(07-31-2016, 08:39 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: A baby just hours before delivery is living on its own. Just because it is still in the mother, doesn't mean that it is dependent on her. Therefore, you're murdering a person.
That's common sense.
While many people feel that viability is the point of personhood, it is in no way cut and dry. You say it is independent, but is it not still connected? Is it not still receiving nutrients through the umbilical cord? It may be able to survive once disconnected, but it is still connected. You're still talking about a philosophical question and that is not what the law is about. When it wades into those waters you get contradictory laws, like the whole feticide thing. The concrete way to say that it is an individual is that it is born. That is when the government claims it as one of their people.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
