(March 13, 2016 at 8:38 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Name one justification for abortion that could not also justify infanticide.Where the birth of the child will kill both the mother and child.
Quote:As I said the point of the OP seems to be that any such justifications for abortion must be made with appeals to pragmatic and political considerations and not biological facts or the ontological status of very young human beings.Not at all. Biological viability - the point at which a child, once born, would nominally survive birth - is based on biological facts. Emergent brain function - the point at which the brain starts to work - is based on biological facts. The use of both of these points in time to determine the point at which it's ethical to describe the foetus as a person and ascribe certain rights to it which prevent termination of pregnancy are both biologically factual and ontologically stated. You misrepresent the highly complex and difficult work done by the medical and legal professions to describe supportable protections to both mother and child which balance the rights of both.
Sum ergo sum
