RE: What is required for a human organism to be considered a rights bearer?
July 4, 2017 at 10:16 pm
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2017 at 10:17 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(July 4, 2017 at 9:12 pm)DogmaticDownSouth Wrote: Embryo is a STAGE of the human organism, not a SEPARATE entity.
Therefor if an embryo or a fetus does not in your opinioin bear human rights then what is necessary to bear these rights and why?
Because the rights of an actual living human trump the rights of a potential human.
And you're absolutely correct: a fetus is not a separate entity. Indeed, it is embedded in a woman, and draws nutrients from her own metabolism, and can perhaps kill her if the pregnancy does not go right. And it cannot live outside her. Why would you give priority to such a being, blind in its outlook, incapable of holding much less expressing an opinion on even its own life, over the life of the adult woman carrying it -- unless you just want to make sure the wimmenfolk are kept in line?
I'll take you seriously about "human rights" when you start talking about the human rights of an adult woman and her right to own her own body.
