1) The right to life applies from the time you have a life to have a right to. Fetuses (Fetusi? I have no idea) develop working cardiovascular systems, etc at a fairly fixed rate. I think it's roughly 22 weeks they can survive outside the womb. That would be my personal cut-off point. Do you mean survive outside the womb with or without medical help? Because there's a huge gap between the point at which a child will survive without medical help and the point at which they will survive with it and it's getting wider all the time.
2) I'm going to need to ask for a little more context here, to be sure of what you're asking. I'm assuming you mean fetuses/fetusi (this is getting annoying) for use in IVF treatment? No. Sorry for not being clear. What I mean by this is that if you say that the point at which a fetus gains the right to life is the point at which it could survive without medical technology then all the babies born pre-mature that survive only because of medical technology are not actually babies but rather fetuses.
To try to make the same original point, but a bit clearer. If you believe that a fetus has the right to life as soon as it could survive with medical technology then it happens earlier than it used to, which seems to me unreasonable. If you believe that a fetus has the right to life as soon as it could survive without medical technology then there are pre-mature babies that have already been born that do not have the right to life yet, which also seems unreasonable to me.
Do you mean survive outside the womb with or without medical help? Because there's a huge gap between the point at which a child will survive without medical help and the point at which they will survive with it and it's getting wider all the time.
2) I'm going to need to ask for a little more context here, to be sure of what you're asking. I'm assuming you mean fetuses/fetusi (this is getting annoying) for use in IVF treatment?
No. Sorry for not being clear. What I mean by this is that if you say that the point at which a fetus gains the right to life is the point at which it could survive without medical technology then all the babies born pre-mature that survive only because of medical technology are not actually babies but rather fetuses.
To try to make the same original point, but a bit clearer. If you believe that a fetus has the right to life as soon as it could survive with medical technology then it happens earlier than it used to, which seems to me unreasonable. If you believe that a fetus has the right to life as soon as it could survive without medical technology then there are pre-mature babies that have already been born that do not have the right to life yet, which also seems unreasonable to me.
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