[Know your rights]

My ethics of personhood derives from my empathy for newborn babies and my intellectual recognition that there is no defensible criterion of personhood by which newborn babies are persons but unborn babies are not. If that fits your paradigm, then we're in agreement.

[palmer]

I agree that a lot of empathy can be generated for newborns. Children who are almost born, or are late term can generate a lot when you study them closely using ultrasound, etc. Obviously a premature birth generates even more empathy since you feel for the struggle and pain that the infant endures. All that understanding does translate back to, and protect the unborn.