| Rights are defined by society and if society decides that a foetus has a right to life then that right must be made universal. This would mean that a woman will be forced to carry and give birth to a child that they don’t want, even if that woman is a rape victim and may be little more than a child herself. Personally, I wouldn’t want to put any woman through that, so I think it should be down to the conscience of the individual.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell |