We have conflicting definitions of what a child is. Potential to be a child does not equate to being a child in my view. As to the value, I leave that to be determined by each individual pregnant woman to make that determination herself. Nice attempt to smear my character though, but I suppose that's always a given with you.
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It's not smearing your character. It is an accurate statement of your value system. I'm sure you are very sincere or whatever in holding this value system but that is beside the point. If you believe a life is not worthy of either identity to be called as such or a right to be protected from violence, then you do not value that life in any meaningful sense aside from perhaps instrumentally.[/quote]
Its potential
wholly depends on the mother exclusively, so why does it deserve to be granted its own identity unless the mother grants it one?
Awful, terrible question for you: Do you mourn the same for a natural early-term miscarriage as you do the death of a two-year-old?
Don't worry, I think I know the awful, terrible answer already, you don't need to say anything. Shouldn't have brought it up really.
