> In some societies infanticide is NOT considered to be murder.
That's precisely what I was referring to in another post (since you
posted this one) with respect to the "fetus fairy" argument.
In the absence of an explanation as to how and why a "person"
is/becomes a "person," there's no particular reason to believe that
that happens at the moment the doctor yanks the young'un out and
announces the birth. It could happen earlier. It could happen later.
L. Neil Smith has argued -- I'm not sure how serious versus
hypothetical he intended it, but the argument was not unreasonable --
that children are just property, albeit very _valued_ property to
which we have an instinctive biological attachment, until they say
"see ya, ma, see ya, pa" and walk off over the horizon in charge of
their own lives.
When I characterize that argument as "not unreasonable," I mean that I
find it more reasonable than the position that a fetus passing the
cervix on the way out is not a "person," but that it magically somehow
is a "person" once the feet clear the labia.
Tom Knapp
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