Originally Posted by
gwahir
Neither babies nor foetuses are people, in any useful meaning of the word. The only physical/intrinsic difference between them is that one's in a box and the other isn't.
Infanticide is different to abortion -- that is, infants are different to foetuses -- in one morally relevant way: when it's born, people in the world form attachments to it. From legal, societal attachments (like giving it a name, or status as a "person" by law) to loving, familiar attachments. In short... foetuses are different to babies because people like babies better.
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