brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) (08/05/85)
I have never understood. Why all this bickering about whether a fetus is human or not? Of course it is, but that's totally beside the point. Teenagers are human, but we won't let them vote, drink, disobey their parents or enter contracts. People with total brain damage are members of our species, too, but the law says they are dead. A fetus is a human in exactly the same way that a fertilized egg is a chicken. (Less so if you want to take all this "it can survive outside the womb/no it can't" drivel.) What makes us special is our brains, not our bodies. You anti-abortionists remind me of socialists who like to argue that being a body is enough to guarantee you all kinds of amazing rights and priviledges. Of course, if you are both socialist and anti-abortion, then you're consistent, and also very rare! -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473