Moral Difference Between Killing Fetuses And Infants

An argument for the statement that there is no moral difference between killing a fetus and an infant would be; killing a person is wrong. Fetuses and infants are both not persons because they do not fulfill all of the five intrinsic things that renders something as a person. Therefore, killing fetuses and infants is not wrong. As stated above, almost all people believe that murder is always wrong because it is the act of killing people. If fetuses and infants are not people because they lack the mental capability, then killing them is not wrong. Premise one and premise two lead to the conclusion that killing both fetuses and infants is not wrong, and because they are both not wrong then there is no moral difference between early abortion and infanticide. In this argument it is quite
I have already explained that an infant is simply not a person just because they can breathe on their own. Again an animal breathes on it’s own and is not a person. Premise two states that an infant is a person because they are independent of their mother. They are not independent of their mother’s assistance in any way. They need their mother’s to feed them, change them, care for them when they are sick, and so on. An infant is completely helpless without the ability to move or talk. Without the assistance of their mother they would die in just a matter of days and it would be painfully. Some may argue that the infant does not need it’s mother in particular it can be given up for adoption and taken care of by someone else. That just means that the newborn is still dependent on someone. Fetuses and infants depend on their mother’s the same amount but just in different ways. Fetuses depend on the mother's uterus and the infant depends on the mother’s actions like feeding. Without the womb and the mother’s actions both would not