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Originally posted by Not Me
Social utility being that slippery slope leading to bilmore's mouth filled with old people. I got it. Thanks.
But wait, I am still a bit unclear on how that 24 week old baby in the NICU hooked up to the ECMO has more social utility than the 24 week old fetus still in the womb. Unless spending $600,000 for ECMO provides hospital workers jobs. Ok, I do get it. Thanks again.
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Social utility can't be the answer, because then you could abort up until about age 10, when they can start to work on the farm. And dogs are cuddlier before then.
Is your point that the only logically coherent bright line is conception? And are you therefore taking the position that an IUD, which prevents implanation after conception, should/could be otulawed?
The problem with the conception-as-bright-line test is that it ignores altogether that there is, in fact, a mother attached to the fetus. And that, legally, that mother has some interests independent of that conceptus. Put aside the "potential human" question--because when you call a fetus human only confuses the issue. The sole question is when do whatever rights we accord the fetal matter supercede the rights of the mother containing that matter.
