ELP journal

Today we started to discuss about Fukuyama reading.
At the beginning Rab mentioned that Fukuyama have changed his political stance twice and according to the researches done by my class mates, he was once a neo-conservative but after experiencing 9.11 in 2002, he became non-conservative. I am not sure what his current political stance is, but the important thing is that when the book was written he was still a conservative. A conservative usually is against applying science technology on any form of life, mostly because of his or her religious beliefs. Therefore, I assume that Fukuyama is also against the scientific technologies which he mentions in the book, such as designer babies and abortion. However, I couldn't really find out his biases in his writing. I think he is just stating facts and never really shows his personal opinions about any of the issues. However, if I had certain amount of knowledge on science or biotechnology, I assume that I could have found out some of his biases.
Rab also gave us a discussion topic on abortion and asked as to share our oppinion about from when the baby inside mother's stomach becomes a person. It is a very controvercial topic and I knew that countries have different laws to determine from when a baby becomes a person. I think in Japan, a baby is considered to be a person when it becomes three month old (in mother's stomatch). I personally disagree with the idea and I think that a baby becomes a person when it comes out. I am not saying that I don't consider a baby in mother's stomach as human and therefore we can do whatever we want to do with it. I just think that it is impossible for a baby to have human rights until it comes out. For example, if a mother who has, lets say, 5 month old baby in her stomach falls down and the baby dies. If we consider the baby as a human, it means that the mother, even if it was accidentally, killed the baby. However, she will not be punished and no one is going to blame her for killing her baby. There are also times when we have to kille baby in order to save life of mother and that case, also, is recognized as legal operation. Again, I am not saying that we should not kill babies in order to save mothers, but I think that it is important to keep it in our minds the fact that we have to kill babies at certain situations and under these special circumstances, the act of killing baby is justified.