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.

So you're OK with killing a full term baby that requires medical assistance?