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Thread #104170   Message #2136011
Posted By: beardedbruce
29-Aug-07 - 09:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: Mutual respect
Subject: RE: BS: Mutual respect
Guest:

You state "I personally believe that when it is capable of independent survival with ordinary care (i.e. given feeding but not specialist medical intervention) it is a full human being*."

By your standard, I was NOT a full human being when my heart was stopped- I certainly required "specialist medical intervention" to continue living. In addition, is a "premie" not fully human? My nephew ( now adult) would argue that he is.