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When do YOU think a life becomes a human enough to be worth protecting under the law?

Once it's outside the womb -- then it's gaining its own experiences and becoming its own person. Before then foetuses are fungible IMO: one can easily knock up another one that's just as good. But I'd settle for "could survive unaided outside the womb".

But if Roe vs Wade says that foetuses which could survive outside the womb with medical intervention can't be aborted, then the controversy is already over: the anti-abortion lobby can sit back and grab a beer, as there seems little doubt that medical advances will one day push that date right back to fertilisation. Plus it seems weird to pin a point of ethics to a moving target: do abortions which were previously ethical become retrospectively unethical as medical technology improves?

Peter