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Quote by: Osborn F Enready The fact that there is a born, citizen victim would preclude that. A fetus is not born, has no identity or legal standing, nor is an individual.

Hmm... guess if you can't maintain your moral justification for killing a fetus, you move to a legal one. Nice change of tack.

However, if the standard for legally killing someone is simply that organism's legal standing, I suppose if we discovered a primitive tribe living in the rainforests of Brazil we'd be within our rights to kill them?

There is also this business about being "an individual." What's your definition of an individual?