[XBob]

427 - "self awareness is what distinguishes a human being from the animals. "

excellent - these people are trying to confer 'personhood' on a 'non-person' or a 'not-yet-person'.

[Tailgunner Joe]

It's simple. Animals are not persons. Unborn human beings are persons.

Any questions?

[UnChained]

" excellent - these people are trying to confer 'personhood' on a 'non-person' or a 'not-yet-person'."

I'm afraid that you miss my point. We don't know what process in the human body makes personhood possible. While it would be error to confer personhood on a non-person, it would be a much more serious error to confer non-personhood on a person.

We should stop killing unborn humans until we can be certain that we aren't killing sentient beings. If sentience exists through the operation of some part of the human brain, we may find that it may come much earlier than we think. It is irresponsible and immoral to go on terminating pregnancies without being certain about this.

The unborn may be more alive in the sense of being sentient than you are.