lifeethics
2007-11-20 22:12:44
How you experience pregnancy may rely on context, but our humanity does not. That would make our status different in different times and places and would leave no room to object to slavery or the non-personhood of women in Islamic nations.
Can’t you just imagine Dred Scot’s “owner” telling us that our experience of slaveholding depends on context? Or the guy who just ended the life of his sister for an honor killing telling us that the personhood of women depends on context?
