Donald Ian Rankin (12,299 posts)
94. A life, but not a person.
Yes, a foetus is alive.
But until it's developed a mind, it's not a person.
I believe that the reason human life has value and computers, say, don't is that we are self-aware. Until the mind is there, a foetus is living tissue, arguably even a living being, but certainly not a person, and its only value comes from its potential to become a person, and its value to others. It doesn't have any value to itself, because there is no "self" for it to have value to yet.
Really?
Prove a newborn infant is a "person".
Prove a 2YO is a "person".
Prove a 20YO is a "person".
Prove you are a "person". To my satisfaction.
An implanted embryo is at the earliest stage of a continuous process that, unless interrupted concludes with death in old age. There is no magical step in between, where the "blob of cells" that was not a human being suddenly becomes one.
Like DU feminazis are saying, stop playing word games and admit that abortion kills a human being, almost always for the sake of some egg donor's and/or sperm donor's convenience.