[lbo-talk] Re: I'm not sorry

[C. G. Estabrook]

But to say that one's humanity depends on the the ability to survive
outside the womb ("viability") is to apply a distressingly sliding scale:
medical technology has changed that substantially in a rather short time.
--CGE

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Doug Henwood wrote:


> C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> 
> >Passage through the birth canal makes a potential human being an actual
> >one?  (Or some analogous point for Macduff, Caesar, and many others?)
> 
> The passage through the birth canal of a three-month-old fetus would
> be quite unusual, and would yield a strange looking creature that
> wouldn't survive very long.