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Originally Posted by Doctiloquus";p="
...and if you own take into account the child's rights (i.e stop abortion) then you neglect the Mother's right to chose what happens to her body.
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Which is why the abortion question will only be settled by compromise, not by the total victory of one side or another. Because it involves the collision of two competing, but legitimate interests -- which means any one-sided solution will be unjust to some degree.
Standards such as "viability" or "higher consciousness" won't satisfy the purists on either side -- but they do the best job of balancing the competing interests.