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fiblye | 5 years ago

And if a presumably sentient creature is aborted before it attains sentience, has it suffered?

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belval|5 years ago

Not the commenter you are responding to, but I would assume if it has not attained sentience then it should not be considered sentient and as such is not a sentient creature.

It has to be, otherwise the abortion debate would be very different. Aborting a somewhat conscious fetus would be much closer to murder.

alisonkisk|5 years ago

If you latch on to me and suck my blood, is it murder for me to remove you from my body just because you can't live without parasitically feeding off of me?