Abortion

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Dennis Hackethal’s avatar
Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 year ago·#175·· Collapse

It’s true that potential beings cannot have rights. But once a fetus is a person, it’s not a potential being anymore. It’s then an actual being.

It’s not the birth that turns a fetus into a person – it’s the running of the universal-explainer software I mentioned in #119. And that might occur before birth.

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