Another Circumcision thread

[Excited Penguin]

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.

Personhood may be a legal term, that's not all it is, though. Personhood may also be used outside of its legal connotation to be discussed as an idea, whether casually or philosophically. Come on now, seriously?

Well, ok, then, about the abortion debate. Thanks for educating me, I guess.

Do I find it a little hard to believe that we can already tell when a fetus' brain becomes sufficiently developed for us to be able to distinguish it from other life forms in some significant way that is to pave the way to it becoming a human?(- Yes, I do) Otherwise, what is, in your mind, the difference between killing an unthinking animal and an unthinking human, whether in womb or otherwise?

We might be getting off-topic with this, but I find it a good topic to talk about. Just as long as we can all agree that just because there are already laws concerning all of these things, doesn't mean our discussion about them should be confined, intellectually, within those limits as set by those laws(i.e. personhood starts at birth, so says my government, now stop talking about it).