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Moral status is "contingent" on whether you were wanted and have a future. Ha, who knew?
Princeton prof Liz Harmon talking to James Franco and Eliot Mchaelson:
“What I think is actually among early fetuses there are two very different kinds of beings. So, James, when you were an early fetus, and Eliot, when you were an early fetus, all of us I think we already did have moral status then. But we had moral status in virtue of our futures. And future of fact that we were beginnings stages of persons. But some early fetuses will die in early pregnancy due to abortion or miscarriage. And in my view that is a very different kind of entity. That’s something that doesn’t have a future as a person and it doesn’t have moral status.” https://www.mediaite.com/online/wat...zarre-defense-ever-for-early-stage-abortions/
Princeton prof Liz Harmon talking to James Franco and Eliot Mchaelson:
“What I think is actually among early fetuses there are two very different kinds of beings. So, James, when you were an early fetus, and Eliot, when you were an early fetus, all of us I think we already did have moral status then. But we had moral status in virtue of our futures. And future of fact that we were beginnings stages of persons. But some early fetuses will die in early pregnancy due to abortion or miscarriage. And in my view that is a very different kind of entity. That’s something that doesn’t have a future as a person and it doesn’t have moral status.” https://www.mediaite.com/online/wat...zarre-defense-ever-for-early-stage-abortions/