Dr. Charles Hartshorne, professor at the University of Texas (as of 1987) and self-proclaimed Christian:
“Granted that a fetus is human in origin and possible destiny, in what further sense is it human? The entire problem lies here. If there are pro-life activists who have thrown much light on this question, I do not know their names…
It [the unborn baby] cannot speak, reason or judge between right and wrong. It cannot have personal relations, without which a person is not functionally a person at all, until months – and not, except minimally, in 2 years – have passed….
Of course, an infant is not fully human… Persons who are already functionally persons in the full sense have more important rights even than infants.”
Charles Hartshorne, “Concerning Abortion: an Attempt at a Rational View,” The Christian Century, January 21, 1981, 42 – 45
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