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It's true. Plain old logic dictates that a person (at any stage of development) is a person.

I think the pro-death crowd have been permitted to co-opt a position they do not deserve. They demand proof from pro-lifers that a fetus is a human person.

The argument should be the other way around. The pro-aborts should have to prove that fetuses are not human beings ("persons").

Along those same lines are these words from the FR thread THE LUKE SKYFREEPER ABORTION DOCTRINE

But plenty of "rational thinking people" think pure logic would dictate that, at any stage, "a human individual is a human individual is a human individual is a human individual."

I thought scientific (rational) people liked answers to be elegantly simple, not overly complicated.

How can the hodge-podge of pro-abort positions be seen as elegantly simple?

The muddle-headed pro-aborts

can't agree on the moment a fetus becomes a human (some of them even say newborns are "non-persons."
need to use convoluted thinking to defend their various positions
find it necessary to alter their (supposedly logical) arguments as science advances.

For too long, the right-to-lifers have been told they have to prove the fetus is a human person.

It's time for "right-to-deathers" to defend their position that particular fetuses are not human beings, worthy of being called persons.

It's time for pro-aborts to defend their position that it is okay to kill a fetus just because it is not "fully formed," or it is handicapped or it is "unwanted."

There is a political strategy to pro-life education in schools as well. Here in Louisiana we have Senator Mary Landrieu. She won her first term in 1996 by less than a 6,000-vote margin. This past December she won her second term by a much wider margin. Louisiana has a VERY high percentage of practicing Catholic and Protestant voters. She could not have won without them. If these voters would have been thoroughly educated on LIFE BEFORE BIRTH, Landrieu probably would never have been elected. Both her opponents were strong pro-lifers.

Factor in other important political races for U.S. Senate. If this were started in 1973, we could have SEVERAL Robert Borks on the SCOTUS right now. Klinton might never been prez.

Consider too the other conservative issues Bush could be advancing if the DemoRats couldn’t block him!