re: #120 Tourquoise Supremacist

But there isn’t, from a moral point of view. Then infanticide should also be OK. It’s just a logical extension of this argument.

There is no actual analogy with the sorites paradox that anti-choice advocates employ, since before the fetus develops the cerebral cortex it cannot be thought to be a person in principle. While there is a continuum in the development of the cortex, one can clearly state that, for example, it’s not there at week 18.

While it’s clearly there both right before and right after the birth.

Nonetheless the actual act of birth creates a bright line demarcation. Once born it is infanticide, a criminal act we find particularly heinous. Before birth it is abortion, an act we don’t like but which ultimately between the pregnant woman and her physician.