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Originally posted by Not Me
What is it about viability that makes someone a human or sufficiently (your words) a human?
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What is it about conception that makes a fetus worthy of protection? Nothing more than the same line-drawing, in a different place, than makes a viable fetus worthy of protection. At the point of viability one can say, and no sooner that the fetus is sufficiently de-integrated from its mother that the two can be separated analytically and therefore (potentially) claim rights that, prior to viability it can claim only through its mother.
Well, not really. You asked whether a line of legality based on temporal passage could be changed, suggesting that to do so was incoherent. Are you saying that changing the voting age is a) incoherent ; b) distinguishable.
If a, well, nuff said. If b, please distinguish.
