Tom Paine 1949
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That’s not a simple question. Are you talking about recognized legal rights? Natural rights? Rights recognized by this or that particular Church? Also, you need to specify the time period and the society you are discussing.
When you say a “developing human being” are you referring to a fertilized single cell egg, a zygote of a few hundred or few thousand cells, a first trimester unwanted fetus growing in a women’s womb, or a living child like my own 4 year old granddaughter?
The latter I assure you has legal personhood in our society and universally recognized natural human rights. She is also in every way protected and loved — a remarkable and magical “developing human being.”
Doesn't a developing human being have rights too? Like the right to live?
That’s not a simple question. Are you talking about recognized legal rights? Natural rights? Rights recognized by this or that particular Church? Also, you need to specify the time period and the society you are discussing.
When you say a “developing human being” are you referring to a fertilized single cell egg, a zygote of a few hundred or few thousand cells, a first trimester unwanted fetus growing in a women’s womb, or a living child like my own 4 year old granddaughter?
The latter I assure you has legal personhood in our society and universally recognized natural human rights. She is also in every way protected and loved — a remarkable and magical “developing human being.”