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I don't know, but maybe when the fetus has brainwaves. I am not asking when rights begin, because for me, that is a seperate issue. For the record, I am personally opposed, but prochoice.
There IS no consensus. For ME, when the breath of life is inhaled, and there is a parent of a child, that child becomes a person, with a name, an origin and a life. Before that "it" is an embryo or fetus, NOT a "life". It is a possession of the person carrying it, and what the person does with it is THEIR CHOICE, their responsibility. NO ONE ELSE's. For those with a god, if s/he/it doesn't like their decision, s/he/it will handle the judgement … or what good is s/he/it?? When it does become a person … with a name and birth date, it falls under the laws of society and is protected by them. That's good.
I know many will disagree, but, this IS a debate site, and that's my side.
@AlofRI That "breath of life" occurs after traveling a few inches through the birth canal, there is no difference between a baby a few minutes before it's born and when it takes its first breath.
For the first time the baby is a person breathing on its own. A "living, breathing person" with its OWN life. No longer dependent on the other body for life. I think that's a BIG difference.
A few inches through the birth canal magically confers person hood? I would have to disagree with that notion.
Personhood, is indeed "magically" conferred (though I would use subjectively and arbitrarily conferred rather than "magically"...) regardless of when someone confers it... Personhood is a human concept that has no biological basis...
@AlofRI That "breath of life" occurs after traveling a few inches through the birth canal, there is no difference between a baby a few minutes before it's born and when it takes its first breath.
Of course there is a difference, location is the difference between born and unborn... There might not be biological differences, but it's irrelevant here...
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I know many will disagree, but, this IS a debate site, and that's my side.
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I agree with you, I hold the opinion that personhood comes with the first free breath out of the womb...
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A few inches through the birth canal magically confers person hood? I would have to disagree with that notion.
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I think that's a BIG difference.
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Of course there is a difference, location is the difference between born and unborn... There might not be biological differences, but it's irrelevant here...
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