By this definition, every cancer is a viable human life and oncologists should be jailed for murder Swing and a miss https://t.co/Gl1CbrVqL6
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I think it's a grey area that people feel very uncomfortable engaging with so they use various moral systems to sidestep the question entirely
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No one cares about "life". My toe scrapings are "human life" and no one gives a damn. We care about "personhood", about unique sentient existence of some description, and my position is that there's no point in gestation that you can easily designate this to
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Somewhere between 24 and 28 weeks gestation, usually. Depends on how you define personhood of course, but that's always the challenge with ethical quandaries
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Brain development and foetal viability, mostly. But those are also arbitrary, which is why I said it depends
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Indeed. As I said, a grey area. But generally heartbeats are a bad marker for personhood, although that gets into much more challenging ethical territory
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