Of course, an infant is not fully human…. I have little sympathy with the idea that infanticide is just another form of murder. Persons who are already functionally persons in the full sense have more important rights even than infants.
Dr. Charles Hartshorne of the University of Texas at Austin
Charles Hartshorne, “Concerning Abortion: An Attempt at a Rational View,” Christian Century, 21 January, 1981, 42-5
Does this follow naturally from the pro-choice position that preborn babies are alive but not “persons”?
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