Free Inquiry, December 22nd, 2001
I read with considerable interest Nat Hentoff's "A Pro-Life Atheistic Civil Libertarian" (FREE INQUIRY, Fall 2001). Hentoff wrote that he became pro-life seventeen years ago when, among other things, he learned from doctors that a fetus is a separate genetic entity, an individual on the continuum of a living human being.
I agree. Science agrees. The living human fetus is a separate genetic entity on the continuum from fertilized egg to death. But that's not the key issue in the abortion controversy It's a red herring. Instead, the central question always has been: At what point in time in i...
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