Letters to the Editor
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Hey Dick
You've never heard of it because most people don't think their lines of reasoning through to the very end.
Think about it--pro-life and animal rights is all about empathy and suffering. If a partial human fetus could have a similar ability to suffer as a complete chicken (and could you really prove it doesn't? No, you can't), then you can't dodge the issue by claiming that a fetus is just an egg laid by a "companion" chicken. The argument isn't about the COMPLETENESS of a being, it's about "does _________ have the ability to feel pain or suffer?"
Sure, there's nothing that says you can't care about both people and animals, so there's no inherent conflict there. BUT, if you're really putting the "rights" of an animal above the "rights" of a fetus, that's just plain misanthropy.
Have to make clear again that I'm NOT pro-life. I'm genuinely curious as to how fundamentalists of the left and right get around their black and white rulings in a morally grey world.