I'm still not sure what you mean, but I'll venture a guess. Survivability is less a part of my point than attachment. If you are a part of another's body taking nutrients from it, your rights are subordinate to the host. Whether you can survive without being attached to the other's body is less of an issue; since your rights are subject to the decision of the host, survivability is a moot point. IOW, I think the answer to your last question is "yes".
------------------------------ You stated: " By exiting another's body and being able to stay alive as a separate being, outside your mother's body." So I asked: If the fetus is old enough to survive, but not yet separated: 1) Is it ok to abort the fetus because it has no individual rights yet so long as you abort it before seperation, even though it is old enough to survive if seperated? 2) If yes to #1, is it ok to sepearate it (prematurely deliver), but then abort it? So the magic thing is not whether or not it can survive, but if its still attached or not? ----- Original Message ----- From: ma ni To: Libertarian@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 2:05 PM Subject: RE: [Libertarian] Re: Why I am Pro-Choice: Support Woman's Right to Abortion I'm not clear on your question. Could you reword it? ----------------------------- So in such a case where a fetus is far enough along to survive if delivered early - then its ok to abort it so long as it is aborted before it is separated? But if at the same time if seperated it would survive then its not ok to abort it once seperated? So the key is - even if it can survive seperately because it has developed - to abort it before it is seperated? ----- Original Message ----- From: ma ni To: Libertarian@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 1:32 AM Subject: RE: [Libertarian] Re: Why I am Pro-Choice: Support Woman's Right to Abortion "how the passage of a fetus through the birth canal suddenly endows it with rights and changes "potential" to "actual." Here's how: By exiting another's body and being able to stay alive as a separate being, outside your mother's body. An individual body is what gives you individual rights. What else could an "individual" possibly be but your body? If you are sharing a body with another and depending on it for life, you have no "individual" rights; any rights you have are subjective to your host's. Or reworded: You don't have FULL individual rights (until you are full individual). --------------------------
