for the first time in half a century, largely because of potential national security implications but in the process making it more acceptable to soberly entertain evidence of extraterrestrial life.across the country have advanced the notion of “fetal personhood,” according to which even fertilized eggs would retain the same legal protection as human beings.
lane. As a result, it is hard to engage on fetal personhood as a philosophical question separate from its existence as a legal strategy for policing women’s bodies.Abortion, like artificial intelligence, exerts a powerful gravitational force that makes it seem impossible to bring them up in conversation unless they are at the center—any way you do it weighs the whole set of ideas down.
The openness to the other life has even extended to life on other planets, which has the potential to radically diminish humanity’s sense of its own importance. Both