Originally Posted by Tock
An interesting question is
whether or not it's ok to abort, say, an hour before birth and why/why not, and compare that answer with
whether or not it's ok to abort a day before birth, and why/why not, and compare that answer with
whether or not it's ok to abort a week, a month, two months, 3,4, 5, 6, 7, 8 months before birth, or even
whether or not it's ok to abort an hour, or a minute, or even a second after conception, and why.
I kinda think that as long as society "sees" fetuses as being fundamentally different than freshly minted babies, abortion won't be considered as murder. But when that difference starts to blur, and people who have the abortion beleive that what they are doing is murder and do it anyway, that's when society starts to have problems.
Odd way to think of it . . . Abortion is ok as long as fetuses aren't people, it's murder if they are. Nothing more than a democratically established moral standard.
--Tock