Analogies can shed light on abortion debate
No one is pro-death. No one is anti-choice. Yet both sides of the abortion debate consider the other side absurd. Why?
The pro-choicer considers pregnancy the construction of a human person. Compare pregnancy, for a moment, to the construction of a car in a factory. The relevant question in the comparison is this: At what point in the construction process does the object under construction become a car? Some may say that it is when the object receives an engine. In the analogy to pregnancy, this parallels quickening. Others might say that the object becomes a car when it has an...
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