Given that substantial variance may exist between individuals, isn’t birth (or within a day of birth) a rather efficient bright line? I fail to see the gain to permitting more widespread infanticide, even taking your argument as generally correct.
Given that substantial variance may exist between individuals, isn’t birth (or within a day of birth) a rather efficient bright line?
Substantial variance exists between individuals, but it’s not such that month-old babies are different enough from fetuses to merit legal protection.
I fail to see the gain to permitting more widespread infanticide
Medical research, perhaps?
Given that substantial variance may exist between individuals, isn’t birth (or within a day of birth) a rather efficient bright line? I fail to see the gain to permitting more widespread infanticide, even taking your argument as generally correct.
Substantial variance exists between individuals, but it’s not such that month-old babies are different enough from fetuses to merit legal protection.
Medical research, perhaps?