Seems like a real/separate body is required to even exercise most
rights. Regarding all the rights mature humans have, how many CAN
a fetus exercise? We animals are pretty much distinguished from
plants, rocks, etc by our more automobile bodies. Of all the
things normally said to both define animal and distinguish human,
how many do fetuses have?
Seems like these and other (many) fundamental differences should
be plenty on which to base a decision to draw the line at birth,
and feel confident that it's a good decision.
Paul, I disagree with the parasite analogy. They are too
independent to represent a fetus. Even most parasites have
separate bodies and can navigate them about (from host to host).
-Mark
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Quoth Paul Ireland:
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Nothing inside the body of a person (that has not been born) has
any
rights...period. It doesn't matter what that organism happens to
be.
Until the moment it is outside the body of another, it has no
rights,
only the host body has rights over its body and the contents of
that
body. Only at the moment of birth do we own ourselves, and have
the
right to life and not one second before. After we are born,
nobody
can take those rights away.
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So you've said -- over and over again.
Feel free to support your assertion with evidence/argument/proof
any
time you like. Until you do, it's just an assertion.
Tom Knapp
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