Another Circumcision thread

[The Grand Nudger]

That's the justification behind limiting or banning late term abortions.  That the fetus has developed enough at some point x to make us hold the knife.  OFC, not every fetus will be at that point when the female seeks the procedure.  In fact, the crushing majority (91%) of abortions are performed in the first trimester, before any such development has occurred. Science informs, a law would have to be set regardless, because science dos not compel. Even so, people would simply break the law regardless of where we set it. The same could be said of any law regarding circumcision...but would then -also- have to be said about any other form of genital mutilation, to either sex.

Personhood -is- a legal status, btw. I'm not selling you a damned thing, lol. I know it seems like -anything- can be argued....but sometimes, just sometimes...there's simply no room. When you read the opinions which form thes cases, and the term person or personhood is referred to, they don;t mean it in the sense of "whatever EP might happen to call a person" - they're referring to a legal status. We don't even get that full status until the age of majority. That moment when, at the stroke of midnight on your eighteenth, magic happens (except you still can't drink, because reasons).