(June 18, 2014 at 9:48 am)Jenny A Wrote: Whether a fetus is ever a person is an entirely separate question from what rights it might have, were it a person.
So what's the point of the "a fetus is a person!" argument in the abortion debate? The argument is supposed to work in a way that attributes the right to life to the fetus (poorly, as I've argued, but that's beside the point), and if you then have to argue that the fetus must have special rights above and beyond what we give to people, well, then you might as well have just argued that and left the personhood claim by the wayside. You might as well be talking about, well, anything if we're arguing for special rights; being human isn't required for that.
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