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Quote by: O-dehlay  The problem is more of a "im reading answers that someone else has posted and you are not reading those answers". 
View the bolded. I wish to know in what way a baby who is capable of living on its own being removed from the mother (this is two mins before birth) can be killed logically under the same prinicples of the early fetus. We have already established that "no reasonable person would do such a thing" but I wish to know the logic behind the decision he is speaking about. |
The logic is straightforward: the situation has not changed, and so the permissible responses to the situation have not changed. The child is still dependent on the mother for its survival two minutes before birth; if, somehow, the child were separated from the umbilical cord, it would die if not removed from the mother. It is still, therefore, not a person, as it is not independent and its continued survival requires an infringement of the rights of its mother. Thus it has no right to life, thus it can be killed. QED.
Reasonably/rationally speaking, it is pretty danged stupid to opt for an abortion rather than a birth at that point. Which is why it makes sense for this to be seen as a gray area, rather than a purely logical black/white situation.