Abortion and Global warming

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I answered this on a couple of occasions already. If you want to know what a human being is....open up a junior high school biology text and look up the life cycle of a human being. A human being is a zygote, a fetus, an infant, a toddler, an adolescent, an adult, and an elderly adult(which is really just an adult).

Okay, let's see if I can't make this even clearer: an infant is stillborn. Is it still a person, or is it just a body? Say that infant is born alive but persistently vegetative from birth, and it is supported through its life so it can grow to eventually die of natural causes. Is there no difference between that scenario and me, sitting here?

Because frankly, what you're saying is still just an assertion, that everything along the human life cycle is exactly the same as any individual segment on it. That's not saying much; under the definition you're using now, a dead body is a person just as much as I am, since a corpse can fit into any one of those categories. Would you be causing the same fuss if I aborted a corpse, Heywood?

Or is there more to this issue than simple genetics?

(PS, you might be tempted to accuse me of moving the goalposts since I'm now talking about "people" rather than "human beings," but that's not actually true, since I said "humanity" in my initial post. See, I'm attempting to cut down on equivocations, where you say "pro-choicers are in favor of killing human beings," to raise emotional reactions when what you actually mean is "pro-choicers are in favor of disposing of matter that has a human genetic code.")