(October 7, 2014 at 3:10 pm)Jenny A Wrote: 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.
Late term abortions are a little different. But abortions aren't the termination of a foetus, it's the termination of a pregnancy, most of the time resulting in the death of the foetus. But if it can be kept alive via an incubator, I think it should. The mother doesn't neccessarily get to decide if the foetus should live or die when there is a chance they can save it.
(October 7, 2014 at 3:10 pm)Jenny A Wrote: 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.
To the extent that we assign anything to anyone we do assign people to treat the sick, doctors, nurses and surgeons are requried by law to do this. We asign fire fighters to put out fires and police officers to uphold the law.
And what do you mean it need not be done? Medicine is vital to human survival and is the reason we are so successful.
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'You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.' - Dr House
“Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom
"If my good friend Doctor Gasparri speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched.....You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit." - Pope Francis on freedom of speech