Hi All,
The MOQ takes an evolutionary view, which means that besides the "line
drawing" problem in fetal development for defining humanity leading the
absolutists to draw the line the only place they can, at the moment of
conception, there is also the problem of deciding at what point in
human evolution do we draw the line and say, "from this point forward
all descendants are human." Obviously, there is no analogous "moment of
conception" for making the distinction between human and non-human in
biological evolutionary terms. Do you see the problem here?
Anti-abortionism is about protecting specifically human life, not just
any life, but there is no such thing as humanity from the evolutionary
perspective unless you buy into Adam and Eve or some other distinct
first humans from which all others descend. Humanity itself is
distinguished only by an arbitrary line that modern humans decide to
draw at some point in evolutionary history.
Best,
Steve
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