The late Mary Anne Warren argued that one of the earmarks for determining a human being to be a person is the attainment of “consciousness . . . and in particular the capacity to feel pain.”
This is a common tactic that pro-abortion advocates take to elude pro-life arguments for the immorality of abortion. If a human being before the stage of consciousness (roughly before 24 weeks) isn’t a human person, so it’s argued, then it’s morally licit to kill it without any moral repercussions.
But Warren’s counter is only as good as its assumptions . . . . . . . .
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