On foetuses, sentience and moral schizophrenia
Submitted by Animal Rights Malta’s Blog
In an anti-abortion letter in today’s The Times, John Muscat, among other things, writes:
“And before anyone lectures us that the unborn child is not yet a person (i.e. without human rights), what is it then, a chicken perhaps or maybe a tadpole?! Does anything in the known universe other than a human embryo have the ability to mature into a fully grown person if left to follow its natural course?“.
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