Kasz216 on 23 January 2008
| Crono said: "On another note, yes, the viability argument means that many prematurely born infants are not yet "human" at birth. You act as if this disproves the viability argument. It does not." So, according to that logic, it'd be ok to terminate a pre-mature baby, as long as it required medical attention to stay alive. Nice. |
One, you don't get the viability arguement.
Two, I'm pretty sure you can. After all it *almost* happened to me. I was born prematurely. The doctos came in and told my parents that there was a very small chance and i'm fairly certain my parents were given the choice to continue or not with said operations that I would need to survive and they did. In fact my grandma once told me the doctor prepaired my grandma to take care of my parents by basically telling her that the operations they were performing were basically just "practice".
Heck if the parents are of a religion that doesn't allow blood transfusions or many other things, they can legally refuse treatement to my knoledge. I think a parent can have their child taken off a breather at anytime. Even a premature one.
