(October 9, 2016 at 2:45 am)Rhythm Wrote: Probably best that you simply refer to the cases, eh? Personhood is a legal status. A fetus doesn't have it. Regardless of whether or not you and I agree with abortion, or whether you and I "see a fetus as a human being" - it simply doesn't have that status.
A newborn baby does, though.....no disagreement from any corner there. -and yet.....
What is and what ought to be are two different things, IMO.
Your response seems to imply that we ought only to talk about what is, whereas I was thinking to take a more progressive approach than that, if possible.