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The unborn. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)

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| October 01, 2002 | Partington, Geoffrey | COPYRIGHT 2002 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

SIR: As I began to read Russell Blackford's article, "The Supposed Rights of the Fetus" (September 2002), I entertained the hope that here we had a genuine Australian successor to Swift's A Modest Proposal. Alas! It soon became clear that the evil before me was real and intended. At least none can accuse Blackford of evading thin-end-of-wedge charges. He denies the right to life to the newly born as well as the unborn child, since neither possesses as yet, he maintains, "such capacities as those for self-awareness, reason and reflection", and thus, on his account, "no obligation arises" in his ethical system from their mere potentiality, "weak" or "strong", for such capacities.

According to Blackford, moral principles require "universal intuition" before they can ...

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