Re:Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting soluti...
by notpresident on Monday April 24, 2017 @04:58PM
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I don't see how one can say that a clump of 64 cells is a child, given that it has the potential to be one
Thats not what I'm talking about (although I admit I'm generally against.)
See "Born-Alive Infants Protection Act" and "Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act" to get an idea.
Edit:
I think the first trimester is a fairly decent cutoff.
As far as I am aware this is not a general cutoff in the US.
When I think of abortion, I don't think of it as killing babies. I think of it as killing a collection of cells that some day perhaps might be a child. But it is not one. I don't see how one can say that a clump of 64 cells is a child, given that it has the potential to be one, but not also take issue with their sperm not fertilizing an egg. Isn't every sperm a potential child as well? On what point of the scale to you draw the line and say "this is now a child" vs "this is a collection of biological material that may become a child if proper conditions are met?"
I think the first trimester is a fairly decent cutoff.