- After some point a fetus can feel pleasure and pain. Assuming
that it does not harm the child that will be born later, is it
wrong to torture the fetus? If you say "yes," how do
you reconcile this view with your claim that the fetus has no
rights?
- If you think that an infant has rights, you must explain how
it is different from a fetus. When and why does a
fetus acquire the rights of an infant? The emphasis here is on
the why. It is easy to say that the fetus acquires rights
when it is born or when it can live without its mother or at some
other time. But why is this true and what does it have to do with acquiring moral rights?
- If you do not think that an infant has rights, would you agree
that it is not intrinsically wrong to kill it? Why or why not?
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