The Justices spar over the constitutionality of the death penalty

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(07-07-2015, 01:48 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I knew the argument about the premature births and unhealthy newborns would come up, which is why in my post I specified healthy, normal infants. There are any number of variables you can throw in there, but then you just generate false equivalencies. A healthy, full term newborn/infant can breath, circulate blood, and intake nutrition without the aid of medical equipment. A fetus prior to the third trimester, if removed from the womb, would require medical assistance for these things, guaranteed. What's not a guarantee is that even with those advances in medical technology that it would survive.

Full term in comparison with a fetus up to about week 24, everything else constant, the fetus is going to die without medical intervention. It's even likely to die with medical intervention up until about week 24.

Still semantics. You're ending the process so that the fetus will not be able to become viable on it's own. 

Rationalization.


I wanted to add this to the end of my previous post, but forgot; 
I'd have a much easier time and be less argumentative if someone just said. Here's the line. You can abort before here but not after here. Health reasons, personal reasons...whatever. But don't (anyone) try to sit there and put a pretty bow on the reasoning by trying to tell me "it's not a real person yet". BS. Just make your decision and live with it.