(March 19, 2013 at 2:24 am)catfish Wrote: If you could hold a live, undeveloped fetus in your hands, could you crush it if you knew what it was?
Let's say that you have in hour hand a one week old human embryo, which consists of 100 cells that form the blastocyst.
And in your other hand you have a fly, whose brain has approximately 1000 cells.
Which one would you just crush?
That blob in the one hand has the potential, in 9 months, to be a fully functioning individual of his species. The other already is a fully functioning individual of it's species, with perhaps, family, children, and a place in the world.
The evolved person would not wantonly kill either. But there are times when the elimination of one or the other is considered to be necessary by the person who has the right to make that decision. And the debate is not about a potential person (that blob in your one hand) being allowed to continue, but it is about the person who holds that blob having the right to choose.
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