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- Opponents believe the foetus is never anything other than human from conception, and therefore has a right to life from this time. It's a key point in the debate, especially for those involved in drafting laws regulating abortion.
www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/abortion/child/alive_1.shtml
Jul 20, 2006 · Some people say that if the foetus is not a person, then abortion deserves no condemnation. This oversimplifies the issues. Even if the foetus is not a human being, it is clearly regarded...
Mar 17, 2009 · Based upon that, we are, semantically speaking, authorized to regard the newborn as human being. During the pregnancy period, fetus takes different shapes in several steps. For instance, when fetus is 12 weeks, its shape is different from the fetus which is 20 weeks.
- Soroush Dabbagh
- 2009
Dec 20, 2017 · If the basic scientific facts pertaining to the nature of the unborn are straightforward, why do so many people claim that "no one knows when life begins" or that a human embryo isn't human? The biggest reason is that science is conflated with morality, philosophy, or religion.
Feb 4, 2013 · In the Torah, it seems, the unborn is not considered fully human. Theologian Millard Erickson notes that in this view, “the lex talionis [life for life] is applied only if the mother is harmed. On this basis it is concluded that the fetus was not considered a soul or a person, and thus is not to be thought of as fully human.” 2
Political debates about abortion revolve around the question, ‘Is a human fetus a human being?’ Yet, in academic philosophical discussions about abortion, the question of humanity of the fetus is largely uncontroversial.
Aug 5, 2019 · There’s no question that your baby is human. Human parents create human children, so why do some people say that human beings who are still in the womb aren’t persons? Here’s what they’re really saying: They’re not denying that your baby is a human being.
Jun 30, 2022 · A moral philosopher explains what’s at stake in second-trimester abortions – and why they’ll increase in a post-Roe world.
