>because the court determines such..... you >aren't a full fledged rights >having citizen in the US >unless you are 18.....
dunno about that. are there not SOME rights you have prior to that (the whole "free speech" thing, for example)
in this instance i'm not sure if we're talking about the "totality" of rights....i thought were were simply talking about rights in the context of who's "rights" take precedence if an unborn chil is determined to even have any
>....a fetus also cannot exit >without help outside the mother's >womb...the rest of what you >mentioned were all possibilities of >born individuals....
but now you're adding criteria. i thought the qualification(s) were voting and the ability to "survive on it's own" (and by the way this was the criteria you gave for "person-hood" anyway, not just criteria for rights -- which you also brought up later to tie back into the whole "right of a fetus" thing)