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What makes you a person,

I'm a living, breathing, human being who by any definition of science and/or medicine is a "person"

and what business is it of the government if I should choose to deprive you of that life?

That pesky Declaration of Independence thing which states, "...that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Persuit of Happiness - That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men..."

That and the laws of man and civilization are such that there connot be a free society without the protection of these rights through law and the enforcement of those laws through government (police power, courts, etc.).

I'm a living, breathing, human being who by any definition of science and/or medicine is a "person"

Said the black man 150 years ago. The Court disagreed.

When you decide to give the gov't the power to seperate "personhood" from "humanity" you give it the power to kill the inconvenient. Blacks aren't people, Jews aren't people, fetuses aren't people.

Exactly, and a fertilized egg is only a very, very young person. It cannot be anything else. If the law is bound to protect you and me, it also should protect those human beings who are younger than us. What kind of free society permits the slaughter of helpless and utterly dependent children?