Tuesday, January 6, 2009

personhood

I just finished watching a news clip about a baby's corpse that was accidentally thrown out with the hospital trash (how you could accidentally throw out a corpse of any kind is beyond me). Worse yet, the clip stated that the hospital is maintaining that the baby was still born; this fact would be relevant in case of a law suit as New Jersey law (the state where this happened) does not consider stillborn infants to be a "person". And this would somehow make it okay that the non-person corpse was improperly disposed?

So what makes a person a person?

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