[WikiEN-l] NPOV: Fetus personhood

Thu Jul 28 03:34:35 UTC 2005

--- slimvirgin at gmail.com wrote:

> I would say it's NPOV to say that a fetus is human
> life (what other
> kind of life could it be if it's a human fetus?),
> but it's POV to
> attribute personhood to the fetus, which is a legal
> issue only
> indirectly tied to the biological one.

Well, "personhood" in this case is a kind of misnomer
for "humanity." Hence debates regarding the humanity
of the fetus are also included even though, yes,
"personhood" is a social (hence, legal) definition,
and humanity is a universal (and coincidentally,
biological) definition.

SV

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