[lbo-talk] Caroline Fourest: In Praise of Consent

c b cb31450 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 3 10:18:50 PDT 2011


Shane Mage

Miles Jackson wrote:
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>> CB: So, r fetuses humans ?
>
> Absolutely not.

Is it a bird that starts to peck its way out of the egg?

Shane Mage

^^^^^ CB: Can't be charged with murder for killing a chicken or an egg. Now u can be charged with murder for killing a human being.

The argument Miles makes can be used by anti-abortionists. Miles is trying to say the fetuses are already significantly fully human. U know cultural influences beyond just "natural" influences in the womb already. Babies r born in sin , afterall, according to postmodern anti-naturalism. ( This shows a confluence of postmodern idealism and religious idealism; see Engels on philosophical idealism's identity with religion ; _Socialism: Utopian and Scientific_) That's a slippery slope in America today.



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