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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
And you don't think the question of whether the fetus is human affects the analysis of how important its rights are?*
*[to Not Me]Don't tell me what the USSC has said. I'm not asking what the USSC thinks, I'm asking what you think.**[/to Not Me]
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To even have this discussion we have to address what is the definition of human. What do you mean when you say someone is a human? If you tell me how you are defining that term, that is the starting point for us discussing whether a fetus is human under that definition.
As we have discussed before, if you define it by DNA, then the cells you scrape out of my mouth are humans because they contain a full set of human chromosomes. If you define it by capacity to think, then those born with severe neurological deficits and incapble of achieving consciousness aren't humans under that defintion. If you define it simply by the fact that someone has been born or has not been born, well, that is so obviously flawed that it isn't worth addressing.
So what do you mean when you say "human"?
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