Reply #30: Well, actually [View All]

[Southern Dem 2005]

some (a lot) of people do think of a fetus as a baby, and many states are giving a fetus legal rights. This was going on long before the Peterson thing. I'm not twisting the legal argument. Its an unsettled area or people wouldn't feel so strongly about it. Even Roe v. Wade recognized that, at some point, a fetus becomes a legal being, born or unborn.

Your argument doesn't really work for abortion. Is a fetus NEVER a person with rights, is it sometimes one with rights, or what? If its NEVER a person with rights then why is it legal to ban 3rd trimester abortions? I'm not twisting words for any particular reason, I was simply talking in a conversational manner. Really though, at SOME point a fetus becomes a baby. Regardless of what people think about abortion, most Americans will agree that it should be illegal to kill an unborn 8 month old fetus.