To abort or not to abort

[Heywood]

Heywood, I'm interested in the idea that we grant personhood on the basis of potential. If you could expand...

Is a fertilised but unimplanted egg yet a person?

Oh and afraid I'm with the theist. Whilst I recognise that it's uniquely gender based issue I don't feel that one can exclude men from the debate.

Jacob, it is not that we grant personhood on the basis of potential. It is that we grant beings moral protection on the basis of future personhood. I think there is a subtle difference.

In my opinion a zygote is not a person. But remember it doesn't have to be a person to receive moral protection.