Potential Persons In Contango
I want to consider abortion in a different way, one that offers no hard and fast delineations, and yet addresses the intuition, held by many, that there is nothing wrong with disposing of the early cellular mass that will eventually develop into a fetus, while there is something very wrong with disposing of a late term fetus. I will do this by means of an epistemological interpretation of the concept of potentiality, in which our uncertainty concerning the organism’s ability to develop to fruition plays a role in whether or not we allow it a right to life. Ability-rights vs Value-rights. I propose to use an old conservative strategy and start from a cons