The moment when personhood begins is the only issue that matters. And it’s the only issue about which there is actually any substantial disagreement. Although the Left prefers to frame the issue as the “right to choose,” that’s an intellectual dishonesty of immense proportions, since no one is challenging the right of mothers to excise anything from their bodies that is merely “tissue.”
I argued with a liberal lady who said that a woman should be able to do anything she wants, with her body. I said, “Should a lady be able to use cocaine or be a hooker?” She said, “No.” I said, “You just contradicted yourself. Now, you say that a lady shouldn’t be able to do whatever she wants with her body. You think a lady shouldn’t be able to take drugs or have sex for money, but she can murder her baby.” She said, “A fetus isn’t a baby. It’s just a bunch of cells.” We were about three feet from her two year-old daughter, and I didn’t know what to say, since I couldn’t prove, to her, that a fetus is a baby.