But, if the beneficiaries are already full-fledged human beings, they're on their own.
An important characteristic of full-fledged human languages in contrast to birdcalls and traffic signs is their productivity.
"Without any intent of parenthood, we don't consider an embryo a full-fledged human being," Jean-Arnold de Clermont, president of France's Protestant Federation, said Wednesday.
Although Mr. Eugenides manages to make Madeleine's feelings about Leonard thoroughly palpable, he has a harder time turning Leonard into a full-fledged human being.
I mean, if an unborn embryo isn't a full-fledged human being entitled to the full panoply of rights, then the question becomes, which rights does it have at which stages of development, how do those rights stack up against those of the full-fledged human being it's growing inside of, and so forth.
But the band's upswing in fortune complicates Lucinda's relationship with the complainer, who gets wise to her secret debt to him and, soon enough, emerges in the book as a full-fledged human being, not just a disembodied telephone voice.
Evidently it is acceptable for embryos to be created and sacrificed if the intention is to make it possible for one or two others to develop into full-fledged human beings.
I was taught to view people as functions and objects to be used and manipulated to achieve my own goals rather than as full-fledged human beings with hopes, dreams, fears and aspirations every bit as legitimate as my own".
And yet the thought of not having any one of them is unbearable now, because they are no longer shadowy fetuses but full-fledged human beings whom I love in a huge and aching way.
The focus on the fetus, Ms. Roth maintains in her book, "reduces women to incubators" who are seen not as "full-fledged human beings, but merely better or worse vessels for fetuses," their bodies no longer seen as nurturing sanctuaries but "as a form of solitary confinement for the fetus".
