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Originally posted by bilmore
Conception, at least, allows for a bright-line determination that component parts have now combined successfully to make a "human life" with all necessary accoutrements and accessories.
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Sure, and I'll bet you like to eat the cookie dough before baking it.
Yes. Conception is a nice, tidy, bright line. So is birth. It's just as nice and tidy, in fact, even more so, because not only is the human live actually alive, it is doing so on its own, with no actual physical connection to the mother.
Calling a fetus human doesn't mean it's entitled to all the protections we afford real humans, any more than my saying my dog thinks its people means he gets to vote.
