(September 30, 2015 at 10:42 pm)Losty Wrote:(September 30, 2015 at 10:26 pm)Jenny A Wrote: The real question is when is a person a person. When sperm penetrates egg is obviously silly. And it goes on being silly for a while. A thing that can't think is not a person. When does it become a person?
Hebrews thought is was first breath. Romans thought it was when Daddy said so. Supreme Court seems to think it's when it can live outside the uterus.
I disagree that that's the real question. No person has the right to my body even if they need it to survive.
But you realize that a fetus made no choice in being created in your body, but is a direct result of a choice you made. (again, notwithstanding cases of rape).
We are not made happy by what we acquire but by what we appreciate.