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Originally Posted by SporkLord";p="
The words "without direct support" are poor word choice on my behalf but it is hard to explain what I mean exactly. Essential and untransferrable support, might be closer to what I mean but then the sentence would become clumsy. I didn't call it dead either, it is alive but only as long as it can live off the mother. A sort of parasitic relationship, not quite but sort of.
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The above explanation sounds close to the commonly used term "viable fetus," or a fetus that if extracted from the womb prematurely has a good chance of surviving. Do you think late-term abortion should be illegal? If Scott Peterson killed his wife who was 9-months pregnant, do you think he should be convicted of double homicide?