(March 8, 2011 at 4:12 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(March 8, 2011 at 12:27 pm)Captain Scarlet Wrote: A mother has the right to choose precisely becuase the baby is part of her.The baby is it's own person, it is part of no one.
Difficult question. And I don't see why it has to be religious. Would it really be better to kill the baby rather than let it die naturally? Are the parents gaining in that scenario? Why should it be lawful to kill an unborn child? I can see there might be reason if any suffering of the child could be known, but it wasn't. The mother would have had to give birth to the baby dead. Isn't there something to holding it and loving it even ever so briefly?
If the baby is its own person, and part of no one..then by all means allow the woman to remove the baby since the baby isnot a part of her to begin with.
But in reality, the fetus is NOT a person and is wholly a part of the mother. therefore it is the mothers right to chose what she wishes to do with HER body.
