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May 15, 2015

The real question is not should abortion be legal, it's :

When does life begin and if there is some gap between the the formation of a zygote and what we can categorize as life, is it ok to prevent that zygote to reach that stage with out it being murder.

Blindly Religious people will 99% of the time insist life begins at conception which means they will 99% of the time view abortion as murder.

Rational people aren't so sure about the process but generally are more likely to accept the concept of abortion.

I'm pro-choice up until the point where we can call a zygote a life instead of a zygote and also in the case of danger to the mother, or rape.

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Aug 9, 2015

Scientifically, the zygote is the beginning of human life. Any disagreement with that is a denial of science.

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Nov 9, 2015

I agree, but I think that NoOneInParticularMispoke. The real question is not whether or not it is life. By the very definition of cell theory, my dandruff was once "life", as where the millions of microorganisms on that burger I ate for dinner. Life itself is insignificant. What the real question is, is when does a person begin (the below reply says it perfectly).

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May 15, 2015

You're close to identifying the lynch-pin of the arguement, though I'll take it a step further, and point out that the argument is about when a human becomes a "person". Relatively early in embryonic development, the embryo is undoubtedly "alive" and "human". However, the pro-abortion argument is that there is something missing from that embryo that prevents it from being considered a "person". The most commonly sited condition I've seen being the ability to feel pain.

However, I do not make the rape and incest exceptions to my anti-abortion stance. The conditions of a human's conception should not negate it's rights.

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Nov 9, 2015

So when, in your opinion, does personhood begin? A beetle can also feel pain, yet is it a person?

(Obviously this is intentional provocation for a discussion/debate. But please consider it not an attack an invitation that you can decline without shame if you so wish. I feel obliged to warn you, getting into this debate with me usually involves responses upwards of 15,000 words on both our parts.)

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