One argument for setting the demarcation point at the moment of birth, rather than some arbitrary point in the fetus’s cognitive development, is to adopt the ideology that women are not incubators; that they have moral control over their own bodies; and that so long as the fetus is inside the womb, no third party has any right to demand that the fetus be brought to term.
Wouldn’t this argument mean that once artificial uterus’s are developed abortion should become illegal? A woman could terminate the pregnancy but would not have the right to terminate the life of the fetus.
Wouldn’t this argument mean that once artificial uterus’s are developed abortion should become illegal? A woman could terminate the pregnancy but would not have the right to terminate the life of the fetus.