[hocndoc]

Forcing parents to not act to purposely and electively kill their children when the children do not pose a threat to the life of anyone doesn't faze me at all.

After all,the parent-child relationship is unique in the world (at least until human cloned embryos are successfully created.). The parents created the child in a vulnerable state. The parents are responsible for the child's well being until he or she can become independent or until they find someone else to care for them. They are responsible for their actions in creating the child.

With current technology, and the nature of physics, chemistry, and the way these work in biology, the mother bears the burden of the care for the child until he or she can live outside the womb. That is no one's fault it's simply a fact. This power/burden does not give the mother or her agent the right to kill a human being and infringe on his or her right to life.

The meaning of "inalienable" rights is that no one can take the right away, only infringe on that right not to be killed or enslaved, or to have property stolen.

I refer you to the Declaration of Independence for the rest of the story.

[Terriergal]