totally random tangent but i'm curious. when a woman is pregnant do you believe the fetus's fundamental rights supercede the mother's? ie mother needs cancer treatment which would end up terminating the pregnancy. whose rights in those scenarios are more important
Firstly, that wasn't totally random ;)
I can't answer for renbutler, but I'll guess it's something like this.
That wouldn't be one person's rights superceding another. This would be a case of taking the best possible route. In your scenario, you say cancer treatment would end up terminating the pregnancy, but the intent is not to kill the child, it's just a likely end scenario.
The proper action would be to save the mother's life while taking all reasonable precautionary action to save the child's life as well.
I'm guessing you're looking to say something about this being the same thing as supporting abortion, but there is a very clear distinction. Abortion, at least the form that we want made illegal, is the willful ending of a prenatal child's life. Whereas this is the willful saving of a mother's life with the unfortunate, and possibly likely, side effect of the end to the child's life.