Is the Fetus an Unborn Baby? The Moral Dilemma of Reproductive
Rights: A Commentary by
Hani
Raoul Khouzam* in A
Perceptions in Reproductive Medicine_ Journal of Reproductive Health
Commentary
The purpose of this commentary is to clarify an
alternative point of view in regard to the semantic differentiation that has been
promoted as true fact which claims that a fetus is not a real person and as
such cannot be called or treated as a baby. Advocates of the reproductive
rights insist that a fetus is not a baby unless a passage of rights is earned
by leaving the mother womb. As a consequence of this assumption the fetus is
not a person and does not possess any right in deciding on whether to live or
to be terminated. The fetes is described as a part of the mother’s body and she
is the only person that have the right to decide on whether she wishes to keep
this part of her body until she delivers a live baby or to exercise her rights
to get rid of what she considers as an unwanted pregnancy and aborts the unborn baby. Although abortion is
a legal procedure and ending an unborn baby’s life is not consider an act of
murder and women who abort their unborn baby are not tried for a murder, it
seems contradictory to other legal notions that are widely accepted by most
human beings and that is to charge a person with committing a double murder if
the action of that person either accidently or intentionally lead to a death of
a pregnant woman. How can it be that aborting an unborn baby is not considered
a voluntary ending of a human life, while ending a life of pregnant woman is considered
a murder of two lives. These facts are described by the United States law of
the land which recognizes a child in utero as a legal victim, if injured or
killed during the commission of any of over 60 listed federal crimes of violence.
The law defines “child in utero” as “a member of
the species Homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the
womb [1]. To help shed some light on this dilemma; it would be appropriate to
illustrate some prevailing notions. “Life” is a property that distinguishes
between that which has signaled as a self-sustaining processes and that which
does not, by exhibiting such things as cellular organization, homeostasis,
metabolism, growth, response to stimuli, etc. Something does not have life
occurs when either those biological functions have ceased (death) or when those
functions were never possessed in the first place such as in the case of
inanimate objects [2]. “Homo sapiens” a member of the human species and the
fetus has a human DNA and can’t possibly be classified as any species other
than homo sapiens, so it is obvious then that the fetus is a person.
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