Then we're in agreement that Fetal personhood needs to
be an article. I disagree with Skyring's claim that
NPOV policy and NPOV terminology should be left to
each article. As physical science has rational bearing
on issues regarding the concept of universe, so does
medical science have a bearing on all medical issues.
The view that NPOV rel. rationality rel. science, and
POV rel. irrationality rel. claim/belief is not a
controversial interpretation of NPOV, IMHO.
Hence we can feel free to state a dominant consensus
that at some certain point, a fetus is a human life,
and hence marginalize both extreme absolutist views
which claim either that "human life begins at
conception" or that the issue is entirely "in the
domain of woman's choice [until its feet are out]."
Sinreg,
SV
PS starting progress on: consolidating issues to
Template:Abortion
--- Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
This is a pretty complex question to sum up easily,
and there's a huge
body of writing on it from all sides (not just
political advocates
either; there's a huge body of literature in
applied-ethics philosophy
journals). Some opinions agree that it's a "human
life" but argue that
"human rights" is a misnomer and ought to be
"personhood rights", and
not granted automatically to humans but only to
persons; others dispute
that a fetus is "human" in the sense that the term
is generally meant,
and instead will only grant it is "of the species
homo sapiens" or
something similar. There is a whole *other* body of
literature on what
exactly "personhood" is and means, and once you've
established that,
still another body of literature on what sort of
ethics ought to apply
to people who have been deemed "persons" in the
relevant sense (fifty
flavors of utilitarians, Kantians, and all the
rest).
Basically there's nothing Wikipedia can say about
this subject that has
a consensus anywhere, other than some very basic
medical facts like "a
fetus is genetically of the species homo sapiens".
There is, however, a
lot of stuff other people say about it that would be
nice to summarize.
-Mark
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