My four-month-old fends for himself--or is it itself, as Saletan suggests. Is my four-month-old even a complete, separate human being? He/it must be. After all, he/it makes his/its own food, shaves, reads, solves differetial equations. My son doesn't rely on his/its mother's breast (he/it has no use for maternal antibodies). He/it doesn't need nurturing. He/it doesn't require that we comfort him/it or change his/its diapers. Sure, some moralist will call what we do "neglect" or "abandonment," but we like to call it teaching self-reliance. In fact, we're still not sure we want to keep him/it. Our conscience dictates that humans don't have rights until they reach sexual maturity. Until then, they are underdeveloped humans that we call "children." Abortion, in my mind, should be legal at least up to that point. Or maybe up to the point where children are viable enough to hold down a job and provide for themselves.