nessie wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes:
> >If the "mother" wants an unborn child to live, then it's a "person",
>
> Not until it's born.
That's a cultural determination. Not a legal, or scientific one. One can
argue that after 24 weeks when the development of the lungs is finished,
that fetus is capable of survival with technological help. Society could
decide that it is a person at this time.
Prior to 24 weeks, the little peeper is nothing more than a mass of
functioning cells under continuous development. There is no way to make
the claim that this is a person, since it does not have lungs and organs.
Only those who are superstitionally challenged claim that this is a "person"
because to them a cell mass + soul ( a mythological concoction ) = a person.
Personally though I agree that a fetus which survives birth is a person.
The Jews don't consider a newborn a " person " until it has survived for
8 days out of the womb. On the 8th day, it gets to join the tribe by
circumcision. If it's a boy.
J2
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