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FutureIncoming · 01-12-06, 10:43 AM

Axismaster wrote: "Abortion is different on the other hand, it is the supposed rights of one person compromising the rights of another."

ONLY if the unborn human qualifies as a person, does that statement have any chance of being valid. Where is the evidence to support the hidden assumption you are making?

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FutureIncoming Objectivist Join Date: Sep 2005 Last Online: 05-11-07 02:56 PM Location: Land of the Freedom-Stealers, because also Home of the Cowardly Leaders Posts: 1,426 Thanks: 5 Thanked 36 Times in 31 Posts Lean: Independent Gender: Current Mood:	Re: A Libertarian's argument against abortion Axismaster wrote: "Abortion is different on the other hand, it is the supposed rights of one person compromising the rights of another." ONLY if the unborn human qualifies as a person, does that statement have any chance of being valid. Where is the evidence to support the hidden assumption you are making? __________________ I'm waiting for a pro-lifer to succeed at this challenge: Define "person" to be Universally accurate, *regardless of physical nature, to distinguish people from mere animals, anywhere*. Example: if God exists, is non-biological, and is a person, then God is a person because {-definitive criteria here-}. After that, explain how unborn humans are so different from mere animals that they qualify as persons. OR: What provable Objective Truth makes prohibition of abortion logical?