[GovernmentShrinker]

Infants and toddlers are not dependent specifically on the mother. An embryo/fetus in the womb is. Totally different situations. Other people can offer to care for infants and toddlers, so that no one is being forced against their will to provide for another.

[exodus]

To: MHGinTN
Infants and toddlers are not dependent specifically on the mother. An embryo/fetus in the womb is. Totally different situations. Other people can offer to care for infants and toddlers, so that no one is being forced against their will to provide for another.
# 52 by GovernmentShrinker
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For the "viability" argument to logically hold water, a mother would have the "right" to abandon her child any time it became inconvenient, even if no one wanted it, even if it meant the kid would die of exposure.

If the mother can't be "forced" to care for her child, you can't force other people to do it for her. That means that up to about age ten, a child has no "right" to live at all, because he still can't survive on his own.

[exodus]

Check out the definition of "viability" --

-- 1) Capable of living, developing, or germinating under favorable conditions.

Very few of us are viable on our own, without help from others. That's why we developed civilization in the first place, to create favorible conditions for live.