Message from @Iron Nation

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2020-02-25 23:12:58 UTC  

As soon as the fetus is outside of the body the pregnancy is effectively over, so at that point you aren't aborting a pregnancy, you're just killing undesirable offspring

2020-02-25 23:13:41 UTC  

bundle of cells that has exited the womb you mean

2020-02-25 23:19:51 UTC  

There is a discussion to be had about when personhood begins. I don't like abortions of healthy white fetuses without good reasons (the vast majority of cases is for shitty reasons) like having been raped regardless of the fetus being a person or not

2020-02-25 23:20:29 UTC  

Personhood should probably begin at conception as a general rule

2020-02-25 23:20:36 UTC  

Seems like it makes the most sense

2020-02-25 23:21:02 UTC  

I think that doesn't really make sense

2020-02-25 23:21:28 UTC  

A fertilized egg isn't a chicken

2020-02-25 23:21:42 UTC  

Technically its just a very young chicken

2020-02-25 23:22:05 UTC  

I wouldn't call it a chicken

2020-02-25 23:22:09 UTC  

Why?

2020-02-25 23:22:23 UTC  

Because it's a fertilized egg

2020-02-25 23:22:30 UTC  

Not an animal

2020-02-25 23:23:03 UTC  

Obviously at some point it does become a chicken

2020-02-25 23:23:16 UTC  

The egg stage is just the early stage ( one might say larval stage :^) ) of the chicken. The egg is a evolutionary protective adaptation for the animal inside which permits it safety to grow and mature.

2020-02-25 23:23:27 UTC  

The egg shell is just like a playpen for a baby chicken basically

2020-02-25 23:23:42 UTC  

Is a semen half a person then?

2020-02-25 23:23:58 UTC  

Its a necessary ingredient to begin human life

2020-02-25 23:24:15 UTC  

Then so is a zygote

2020-02-25 23:24:24 UTC  

A zygote is a very young human

2020-02-25 23:24:36 UTC  

That's nonsense

2020-02-25 23:24:55 UTC  

The human lifespan covers the moment of cell fertilization to the moment of death

2020-02-25 23:24:56 UTC  

It's hard to draw a line Kermit

2020-02-25 23:25:03 UTC  

Your life doesn't start 9 months after conception lol

2020-02-25 23:25:17 UTC  

No more than you're alive 9 months after death

2020-02-25 23:25:51 UTC  

Life is not personhood

2020-02-25 23:26:28 UTC  

A goldfish isn't a person just because it's alive

2020-02-25 23:27:11 UTC  

Right personhood is just the social recognition of a life like a human life

2020-02-25 23:27:26 UTC  

No

2020-02-25 23:27:28 UTC  

You can just legally take away anyone's personhood but that doesn't change the facts of their being alive etc

2020-02-25 23:27:45 UTC  

Personhood is entirely separate from being alive

2020-02-25 23:27:58 UTC  

Somebody who is braindead is alive

2020-02-25 23:28:13 UTC  

But lacks personhood for the moment

2020-02-25 23:28:23 UTC  

Well you couldn't say "somebody" you'd have to say "something"

2020-02-25 23:28:43 UTC  

A baby can be born and survive outside of the womb earlier than 9 months

2020-02-25 23:29:05 UTC  

In any case if someone is braindead yeah people often revoke their personhood

2020-02-25 23:29:06 UTC  

If a braindead human doesn't ever wake up again you are in essence talking about a corpse

2020-02-25 23:29:16 UTC  

That depends on your values really

2020-02-25 23:29:16 UTC  

So yes it's a thing at that point

2020-02-25 23:29:43 UTC  

Of course I know they sometimes do wake up

2020-02-25 23:30:02 UTC  

But I'm saying if you had perfect knowledge of it

2020-02-25 23:30:03 UTC  

That's just the narcissism of the brain talking