New Iowa Law Restricts Abortion To Before Most Women Know They're Pregnant

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If I were to choose, I'd pick when the fetus first develops brain activity. Death (the generally accepted end of personhood) is generally determined when brain function stops, so it should make sense to start when it's first developed. And that usually happens sometime around the end of the second trimester, and while it is a bit before viability, it happens around week 20 at the earliest. Before that, it's no more sensate than a stone; this is why there's no comparison between someone who's been born, but has substandard cognition, and a fetus that hasn't developed any.

So are you arguing that they are not even alive (the fetus)? I think that science would disagree. The ability to reproduce is also a qualifier for life as well, but we don’t say that the young or the old who can’t reproduce at the time, are not alive.

So is a person in a medically Induced coma, or in a coma from an accident (but thought to recover) still a human?