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Abstract:
Hegel once remarked that "what experience and history teach us is that people and governments never have learned anything from history or acted on principles deduced from it." Historically, efforts to define a human being sufficiently equipped biologically or politically to meet a set of factitious standards for inclusion in the community of mankind have invariably resulted in unspeakable injustices. The continuing exclusion of the human fetus from this community is another (and the latest) tragic example of the historical myopia of which Hegel spoke.
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