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Webster says autonomous is:
a : existing or capable of existing independently By this definition, a baby is not autonomous since it relies completely on its mother for shelter and nourishment for many months after its born. Just as it does before it is born. "Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message ... "Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message ink.net... "Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message ... Except a fetus is not a human being...it's a fetus. A human being is an autonomous being and a fetus is just the opposite. In humans, a fetus is the unborn young from the end of the eighth week after conception to the moment of birth, as distinguished from the earlier embryo. Nice lesson in biology, but totally irrelevant. A fetus is a human being. A fetus is a fetus and will remain a fetus until it's an autonomous being. Prior to that, it's an appendage of the mother. You can call a leg and arm, but until it has fingers rather than toes, it's still a leg. The operative word here, in a legal, rather than biological sense, is AUTOMOMOUS. |
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