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33 years ago - ANTI-'PERSONHOOD' PARLEY
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June 1, 1987
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Advocates of abortion rights met here this weekend to marshal arguments against abortion opponents who contend that a fetus ought to have the rights of a person.
Ed Doerr, executive director of Americans for Religious Liberty, which sponsored the conference, said the group hoped primarily to influence the courts and state legislatures. Conference participants included theologians, medical experts, social scientists and lawyers.
Among them was Michael J. Flower, a developmental biologist at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore., who said recent findings from the study of nervous-system growth suggested that a fetus could not be considered a person if brain function was the criterion. ''Brain waves are not organized before the eighth month,'' Dr. Flower said. ''On balance, when is it reasonable to say that personhood begins? Not until well into the third trimester.''
Judith C. Rosen, a San Diego lawyer, said states that had already enacted fetal-personhood laws, which give rights to the unborn, had created the potential for a legal conflict between mother and fetus. ''There are two entities in one biological unit,'' Ms. Rosen said, ''and we have to come up with a better, nonadversarial model for that relationship.''
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One could see the uninvited sperm attacking the egg as a rapist, and birth control as preventing that invasion.
In context of their personhood argument i could see the sperm as a home invader. It makes as much sense.
Special to the New York Times
June 1, 1987
The New York Times Archives
See the article in its original context from
June 1, 1987, Section A, Page 12Buy Reprints
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https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1987/06/01/458487.html?pageNumber=12
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About the Archive ..inside..
Advocates of abortion rights met here this weekend to marshal arguments against abortion opponents who contend that a fetus ought to have the rights of a person.
Ed Doerr, executive director of Americans for Religious Liberty, which sponsored the conference, said the group hoped primarily to influence the courts and state legislatures. Conference participants included theologians, medical experts, social scientists and lawyers.
Among them was Michael J. Flower, a developmental biologist at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore., who said recent findings from the study of nervous-system growth suggested that a fetus could not be considered a person if brain function was the criterion. ''Brain waves are not organized before the eighth month,'' Dr. Flower said. ''On balance, when is it reasonable to say that personhood begins? Not until well into the third trimester.''
Judith C. Rosen, a San Diego lawyer, said states that had already enacted fetal-personhood laws, which give rights to the unborn, had created the potential for a legal conflict between mother and fetus. ''There are two entities in one biological unit,'' Ms. Rosen said, ''and we have to come up with a better, nonadversarial model for that relationship.''
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/01/us/anti-personhood-parley.html
One could see the uninvited sperm attacking the egg as a rapist, and birth control as preventing that invasion.
In context of their personhood argument i could see the sperm as a home invader. It makes as much sense.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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