This is an answer to a post by fpb  about abortion. I repost it here because it did not fit in one piece in the comments to fpb's post and because he deleted the first part as it did not meet his standards of scholarship.
fpb 's point is that there is a continuum between conception and adulthood and that full humanity comes at a rather late stage as a child ( Read more... )

On a somewhat related note to my previous post, here is a page from a web comic I love:


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             I would like to say a few words here about feminism, and more particularly about how feminism is often perceived.
            Let us start with the facts: there is a great deal of discrimination and violence against women in the world, even in supposedly “advanced” western societies. I shall only give a few examples, because I believe ( Read more... )