(June 20, 2014 at 9:34 am)bennyboy Wrote:(June 19, 2014 at 8:24 pm)Losty Wrote: A fetus is not a person. You have provided zero evidence to show that a fetus is a person. You have made no attempt to show that a fetus is a person.I'm sorry. I'm pro-choice, or at least pro-pro-choice. But appealing to evidence in this case is silly. We're talking about an arbitrary line in the sand, and people can draw it wherever they want.
You have also given no reason why a being with human DNA should have a right to live if it is not a person.
If you are talking about evidence that an entity can feel pain, or can interact with its environment, or can sustain itself outside the womb, then that's fine. But defining a person in any of those terms is no less arbitrary.
Meh. I was just trying to make a point which was ignored by him anyways. My brain isn't in this debate. Lol.
After the last 500,000 debates on abortion(give or take :p ), I have learned something about myself. Or rather, I have changed my position a little. I am 100% pro-choice. That isn't where I began but it's where I am now. I don't believe a fetus is a person, but even if we say a fetus is a person at all stages I am still pro-choice.
But you're right. One cannot provide evidence to prove a fetus is or is not a person, because what constitutes a person is subjective.
