Once the brain works...

**Anders Hoveland** · Jun 15 2012, 01:48 AM

Originally Posted by Junkieturtle

I would still want abortion legal after the cut-off in cases of danger to the mother or if debilitating birth defects are found

Oh yes, definitely. Abortion should be acceptable at any stage in the pregnancy if the baby is seriously defective. I would even support post-natal termination in this case.

**MegadethFan** · Jun 15 2012, 02:15 AM

Originally Posted by Anders Hoveland

Oh yes, definitely. Abortion should be acceptable at any stage in the pregnancy if the baby is seriously defective. I would even support post-natal termination in this case.

Why the sudden change? Wasn't your position before that "human life must be protected"? Why have you reneged on that now?

**Anders Hoveland** · Jun 15 2012, 04:05 AM

Originally Posted by MegadethFan

Wasn't your position before that "human life must be protected"?

Defective/genetically inferior human life obviously does not have the same intrinsic worth as healthy human life.

We see this all the time in gerontology. Doctors will decide not to perform surgery that would prolong the patient's life if the quality of life would not be very good.

**MegadethFan** · Jun 15 2012, 04:45 AM

Originally Posted by Anders Hoveland

Defective/genetically inferior human life obviously does not have the same intrinsic worth as healthy human life.

That doesn't make sense. A genetically inferior human life IS STILL a human life. So why do you arbitrarily say its now ok to end a human life when it is genetically inferior? By doing this you are admitting there is nothing special about human life - it is something else.

Originally Posted by Anders Hoveland

We see this all the time in gerontology. Doctors will decide not to perform surgery that would prolong the patient's life if the quality of life would not be very good.

But your argument isn't about quality of life - it was that human life is valuable - so why the change?