abortion

[Dennis Perrin]

> As long as I'm quoting Judith Thomson today....
>
> "To be sure, if a fertilized egg is allowed to develop normally the
> resulting child will have wants, hopes, and fears, and thus will have
> interests, and it will then have rights. But this does not show that
> fertilized eggs have rights. Things can lack rights at one time and
acquire
> them later. If children are allowed to develop normally they will have a
> right to vote; that does not show that they now have a right to vote. To
> show that a fertilized human egg now has rights one needs to produce some
> fact about its present, not its future."
>
> Barry

Right, and kids can't drive cars, either. I think there's a slight
difference between waiting till you're old enough to vote and having your
heart stopped and your developing body tossed in a trash can. Then again, ho
hum.

DP