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#6,401 Viability is a meaningless and arbitrary standard that changes as technology changes.
NFBW: Fetal viability is not a standard.
Viability is in each fetal individual as one exact DNA programmed point/moment on the lifetime continuum at which there is a reasonable probability that a fetus could survive ex utero with normal life expectancy when provided with realistic care that has become available to medical professionals with the appropriate provision of intensive care.
The fact of viability being an actual moment in the development in the womb, of a fetus, is the point I make. Out of the context of a supernatural anthropomorphic, being in the sky, creating a human being at conception, and by using only the laws of nature and an approximate time when it is known that viability possibly can take place, viability can best be used to settle the point in a civil society at which approximate moment the fetus becomes deserving of the exact same protection as the ‘living being’ that would become its birthmother or adoptive parent.
Therefore in a strictly secular sense and legal framework viability is a relevant consideration in the regulation of abortion, coming to fruition as a form of political compromise that has been said, ‘a plain reality and a non-controversial development stage that any reasonable person would acknowledge’.
The logic being that ‘once the fetus is viable, its status as a full-human being seems to be a self-evident truth. The viable fetus no longer needs to become a full-human being; it is ready to begin to live an independent life’.16 It therefore, seemingly, presents a position based on an exercise of logic, but that also allows pregnant people the chance to access abortion care up to a certain point, after which the fetus is ‘entitled’ to certain protections.
Abstract. In this paper, I explore how viability, meaning the ability of the fetus to survive post-delivery, features in the law regulating abortion provis
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Lavi explains that this is because the concept is often presented as a ‘plain reality and a non-controversial development stage that any reasonable person would acknowledge’.15 The logic being that ‘once the fetus is viable, its status as a full-human being seems to be a self-evident truth. The viable fetus no longer needs to become a full-human being; it is ready to begin to live an independent life’.16 It therefore, seemingly, presents a position based on an exercise of logic, but that also allows pregnant people the chance to access abortion care up to a certain point, after which the fetus is ‘entitled’ to certain protections. Later in this paper, I will review the significant criticism that is deployed against viability as a morally significant moment in fetal development and criticize the extent to which viability can be understood as a compromise in abortion regulation.
NFBW: I understand why some Catholics cannot accept compromise on viability mentioned above. I think I can say it is true that an atheist such as yourself, C+six has to have another agenda for not taking the compromise. That is so you can call your ideological and political enemies, all sorts of vile, and civil indecent, rotten sort of things, even when they’re opposed to abortion personally, but respect the pregnant woman’s right to make her own decision. viability matters and you cannot make viability go away because you openly express so much hate against those who don’t agree with you on everything.
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