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I do not see what the supposed logical fallacy of the continuum is.

There is a problem with using a criterion such as when someone can think as the dividing line between when it is okay to kill that person and when it isn’t. What is meant by “think”? Babies certainly do not display much of a thought process, and some people arguably do not ever learn to think. There are pro-aborts who use various milestones of brain development as their “cut-off” for when it is okay to kill a kid—including milestones that do not happen until about age 4-1/2 to 5 years. One could even push the cut-off between okay and not okay to kill to age 25—that is when the brain finally reaches maturity and is no longer developing.

I would push for the existence of awareness, regardless of how developed the brain is. The brain forms between 2 and 5 weeks after conception. It has no on-off switch: as soon as cells differentiate into being brain cells, they function as brain cells. They sense stimuli exterior to the body, they make neural connections, they sense and guide bodily processes. Those various brain activities together form the awareness of being alive. So, after sometime between weeks 2 and 5 after conception, the baby is quite aware and capable of feeling the pain of abortion.

You do not need to bring philosophy to pro-abort/pro-life debates (unless you are looking for a philosophical “loophole” that makes it okay to kill). The science of embryonic development tells us very clearly that an unborn baby is alive and aware.