a friend kept repeating to me a phrase to this effect: "it's Fetus, NOT a person."
i pointed out in response that the terms "Fetus" and "person" are no more mutually exlusive than the terms "adolescent" and "person", or "adult" and "person".
The term "Fetus", like "adolescent" and "adult", refers to the stage of developement of a person, NOT to the absence of personhood.
The word foetus means: little man or small man.