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Ah, OK, slightly confusing choice of word then. As I see it the crucial question re abortion is when a clump of cells becomes a person; I don't think there's ev

by mrec 6y ago

Ah, OK, slightly confusing choice of word then. As I see it the crucial question re abortion is when a clump of cells becomes a person; I don't think there's ever a stage where it's not (biologically) human.

lazyasciiart 6y ago
People seem to use the noun (a human) fairly interchangeably with "a person".
- dane-pgp 6y ago
  Language and law both become very strange when we have non-person humans and non-human persons. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/animal-news/orangutan-granted-legal-personhood-settles-new-florida-home-n1079261 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/animal-news/orangutan-granted-l...