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Originally Posted by joeydb
It's more fundamental than that. To point to the presence or absence of one organ or structure is not sufficient.
If you found the DNA of a fertilized zygote at a crime scene, you'd assume that there was a unique person there, distinct from the mother and father. And you'd be correct.
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How would they find that? It'd probably still be in the mother's Fallopian Tube. Whatever it is, it can't develop a brain without a woman. To call something a person it should be able to feel and/or respond to stimuli. A zygote can't survive in this world the way a person can. People have brains. When their brains don't work, they usually call it being a vegetable. You can implant many organs from another person, but not the brain. Each day, in this country, people have machines turned off, and people die. They die because their brain no longer works. Most of us do not consider that to be the person we knew. People burn it. People bury it in dirt. It once had life, but it no longer does. Same as something (without a developed brain) growing in a woman. She is the artificial machine keeping something growing until it's actually alive (with a functioning brain.) You're alive when you can feel n' respond to stimuli. Need a brain for that. If a fetus can feel stimuli, then I would agree that aborting it is murder.