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Originally Posted by photon
Without a better measuring stick I guess that's fine, but really it doesn't measure what it SHOULD measure to answer the moral questions in my opinion.
What if it's found that a fetus becomes self aware and gains the ability to suffer BEFORE it's viable outside the womb? Then by the ability to live stick we're still committing murder if we're using a different measurement.
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To answer the question....if science were to determine that then the laws could be tightened to reflect that. However, we are still aborting fetuses right up until birth....I'm not sure how restricting abortion based on the ability to live, when it's possible that an earlier date could become morally responsible in the future, is at all out of line.
See, this stance (which I assume DA shares) would seem to be one that would have people erring on the side of caution and not supporting any abortion rights whatsoever....yet it is always used to support the right. I don't get it.