Mississippi Supreme Court: Fetus a person

[notyoueither]

And just how many saints are dancing on the head of this pin?

[st_swithin]

The intro screen on my cell phone says:

"#include phone_number.h"

[notyoueither]

Are you asking for my phone number?

[Sikander]

Originally posted by The Templar

That sound you hear is the cognitive dissonace in your head.

Really? I swear it sounds like Hendrix.

[Sikander]

Btw, it's nice to see that almost everyone arguing here has a well-thought out position.

[Ben Kenobi]

I argue that a fetus is not human

(1) Species gets determined at conception,

Templar:

Methinks we are in the land of semantics.

I define human as of the species homo sapians sapians.

Therefore to be human = of the human species.

A better argument for your thoughts would be to say that the unborn child is human, though not a person. I suggest strongly that you take this course.

Now there is no reason to suppose that there is a point where there is an instantaneous transition from chemistry to personhood.

There we go. Please make a distinction between personhood and human. Otherwise your sentences make my head hurt.

Now I ask, why should an infant qualify for personhood, or you since we are all just a sack of complex molecules?

UR:

(You + Templar)

Human being = person

(Me)

Human being = member of human species

Therein lies the confusion.