(March 1, 2017 at 8:13 am)alpha male Wrote:(February 28, 2017 at 8:18 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I am. I hold that an adult human has more rights than a fetus. The courts agree with this assessment. I think common sense does, too. It's clear that the fetus has no autonomy, by nature of its existence.Red herring. The point isn't whether we treat beings with autonomy differently than we treat those without autonomy. Of course we can treat different categories differently.
The point is whether we treat beings within a class consistently.
Neither fetuses nor newborns have autonomy. Therefore, if autonomy is the deciding factor, they should be treated the same.
I don't know if you're consciously engaging in sophistry or actually believe your argument, but your logic is really bad on a pretty simple point.
The autonomy of a newborn is obviously different than that of a fetus. The first is practical, the latter is potential. And then we need to consider the autonomy of the woman involved.
Over to you.
