(October 7, 2014 at 3:10 pm)Jenny A Wrote:(October 7, 2014 at 11:39 am)Bad Wolf Wrote: I wouldn't call these 'special rights', we prevent them from dying by allowing these things. Just like how we look after people when they are sick in hospital, those aren't special rights, they are necessities.
I don't view using someone else's body to survive as a necessity
For a fetus the use of mom's body is as necessary as anything can possibly be. The question is whether it's moral to require mom to provide that necessity. I say once mom has allowed the fetus to become developmentally a human, it is. Similarly if she delivers the fetus and takes the baby home, she is morally required to care for it.
We would like society to take care of those in the hospital, but we don't assign that duty to anyone in particular and indeed it need not be done by anyone in particular.
This.
I'm not a supporter of late term abortions unless the child is unviable, is likely to have serious illness/brain damage or is a threat to the mother's life.
I'm a proponent for the mother's right to abortion until the child is viable - 20 to 24 weeks
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"