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1. A mother's right as a woman shows that she, and she only ought to be the one to decide when faced with difficult, even tragic pregnancies in consultation with her husband and her doctor.
ALL politicians ought to stay out! Both those of the right and the left who treat the mother and preborn infant impersonally without considering the very real tragic situations.
Having said, that,the preborn infant, though connected to his/her mother before birth is also a human with rights and inherent worth.
2. Regardless of one's philosophical views, scientifically, at human conception what is conceived is a human life, which soon becomes an embryo, "a separate body and brain.
This embryo unless it fails (miscarriage) or it is killed (abortion) eventually becomes a fetus--M,W. Dictionary--"a developing human from usually two months after conception to birth" and then at 9 months is delivered and separated from his/her mother.
Ultrasounds, especially video ones show that in late development, the unborn fetus is exactly the same as a born infant. Probably, this is one reason that some states treat the murder of a woman and her fetus as 2 murders.
3. According to the Journal of the AMA, the infant can feel pain by the 23rd week. Premature births usually survive at about the 24th week.
Based upon that, it would seem from a scientific view, that then those in the womb at the 23rd week are basically the same as a birthed infant with inherne worth and human rights.
4. The difficulty, of course, comes because the fetus is still attached to his/her mother, and so, the mother needs to be the deciding one since the infant is still in her womb. When there is a tragedly, the mother is usually chosen for life over the premature infant.
Let me repeat, all political leaders of the right and left ought to stay out of tragedy.
5. Conclusion: "... all thinking people recognise a painful conflict of rights and interest in this question". Christopher Hitchens
In an interview, Hitchens also said that while he wasn't in favor of abortion, he wouldn't go beyond an effort of persuasion. "I myself was reluctant to do this even when my wife got pregnant. It came at the worst possible time. Neither of us wanted to have a kid. My wife was considering an abortion. I urged her not to get one, and ultimately, she decided not to, and didn’t. But I wouldn’t have, even if I could, gone beyond an effort to persuade her."
IF a mother--decides to abort or to birth her little one, that is her difficult moral decision to make, not strangers who don't even know her medical case.
Contrary to some ethical thinkers now, killing an infant after birth because he/she has Downs Syndrome or isn't wanted, is murder.
Infanticide is the worst of unjust human actions.
And the extreme of abortion-on-demand, where the premature infant is treated as "parasite" is very immoral and unjust.
In the Light of Human Rights,
Dan Wilcox
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