[Peace-discuss] [Peace] Veterans to stage protest at Tim Johnson's office this Thursday on the Eve of Veterans' Day

[C. G. ESTABROOK]

Here's an answer to the assertion "a fetus is a fetus, NOT a person":

<http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/abortion/philosophical/future.shtml>.


On Nov 10, 2011, at 5:42 PM, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:

> S'cuse me, but the 2 persons involved in terminating a pregnancy  
> thru abortion are the woman and the health care provider who  
> performs the procedure. If we're talking the morning after pill,  
> tons more involved -- the person writing the script, the woman who  
> gets it filled, the pharmacy that supplies the pill. In any event, a  
> fetus is a fetus, NOT a person.
>
> --- On Tue, 11/8/11, Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Veterans to stage protest at  
> Tim Johnson's office this Thursday on the Eve of Veterans' Day
> To: "C. G. ESTABROOK" <cge at shout.net>, "Jenifer Cartwright" <jencart13 at yahoo.com 
> >, "Jenifer Cartwright" <jencart7 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 3:56 PM
>
> The counterpunch article says:
> > "The abortion argument reduces to the question of how many persons
> > are involved."
>
> And I maintain that only two persons are involved, the woman and the  
> fetus.
> Until all three persons are involved (i.e. the male is also included
> in every situation), then the decision is a choice between a life and
> a life: the life of the woman and the life of the fetus.
>
> -karen medina