Good lord. I take a week's hiatus and I find that this "debate" has spiralled away from the issue. The pro-choicers are arguing their point using the wrong terminology, and the anti-abortionist is arguing against that point quite correctly, ultimately meaning no one is getting anywhere.
There is no question that a foetus, blastocyst, embryo, zygote and human vegetable are all alive. We can see this quite clearly, it respires, it grows, there's loads of cellular activity going on. There is also no question that they are all human, as a DNA test will show, and given that they have all arisen from the unification of the two applicable human gametes.
The question is whether each has attained/retained this mysterious, immeasurable, undetectable and completely arbitrary quality of "person hood".
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