From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Fri Sep 15 2000 - 16:59:25 MDT
hal@finney.org wrote:
>
> Bryan writes:
> > If you consider abortion to be a "necessary evil" - morally
> > dubious but of great convenience to women - this might seem
> > like a compromise. However, if you consider abortion to be
> > ethical the above solution is not ethical.
>
> But isn't it inconsistent to have a blanket statement that abortion is
> ethical while infanticide is not? A baby one day from being born can
> be killed, while a baby one day after being born cannot? There is not
> a clean line between these two cases. Birth is a process, not an event.
>
> This is the tension which drives the search for a better solution.
Frankly, the only legal (NOT moral) grey area is the time between when the baby
is outside the womb, and the cord has not been cut. Which of these two events
defines the actual 'birth'???
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