"You
are assuming ensoulment is the cutoff between "OK to abort" and "murder";
I
am not. Fertilization is the only biological cutoff I see."
We are probably at an impasse. That's OK. In your first statement above
you took a leap I had not taken, although it is a reasonable next step.
When you say "Fertilization is the cutoff," I assume you mean point C in
my scenario, "conception complete and a 1-celled zygote formed." My
problem with selection of that point is that it seems "ad hoc." Can one
"murder" an entity which does not possess a soul? That seems
unreasonable. Does the entity at point C possess a soul? That, also,
seems not to be the case. If so, why point C?
Burgy
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