[MD] Morality, Abortion and the MoQ

[Platt Holden]

Hey Steve, 

[Steve]
> I was trying to address the issue of trying to draw a line during the
> development of a fetus between a human person that we will give rights
> to and a mass of cells that we don't give rights to. Anti-abortionists
> think that the only place where we can meaningfully draw a line is at
> conception. It is this assumption that I am criticizing. I think we
> can draw real lines for distinguishing humanity during fetal
> development because we already do draw a real line for distinguishing
> humanity from nonhuman ancestors. And the line that we decide to draw
> would be as real as the one we've already drawn. Drawing the line at 2
> weeks, 4 weeks, 9 weeks, etc. would be no more arbitrary than drawing
> the line at some point in time between homo sapiens sapiens and
> previous ancestors. At some point our ancestors were not just animals
> but human beings with human rights, and we can say the same thing
> about a developing fetus at some point in gestation.

You keep referring to "we." But, I wonder who "we" are.

Are "we" the citizens of a state? A nation? A group of judges on a national 
supreme court? A  global supreme court? Those who voice an opinion on 
Internet? On MOQ_discuss? The Founding Fathers who held it as self-evident 
that all men are are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain 
unalienable Rights, among these are Life . . .? All, some or none of the 
above?

Thanks,
Platt