So, when EXACTLY does a baby become a person?
Is it "above your pay grade"? Or do you think there's a chance this "single fertilized cell" might turn out to be a giraffe or something?
What EXACTLY does consciousness have to do with anything? Do you believe that a person must be conscious to be a person and have rights?
Are you even aware that FR is a PRO-LIFE forum and not a libertarian pro-abortion cesspool?
“So, when EXACTLY does a baby become a person?”
My personal belief is that during the continuum of pregnancy a fetus accretes rights according to its stage of development. In judging whether a given abortion is moral, I would weigh the reason for aborting against that stage of development.
Since this position is not “life” (fetus becomes a person at conception) or “choice” fetus doesn’t become a person until birth), it doesn’t fit either of the politicized poles of the argument. Excluded middles are what you get when you politicize a scientific question.