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Originally Posted by tecoyah
Thinking occurs, of course, in the brain--principally in the top layers of the convoluted "gray matter" called the cerebral cortex. The roughly 100 billion neurons in the brain constitute the material basis of thought. The neurons are connected to each other, and their linkups play a major role in what we experience as thinking. But large-scale linking up of neurons doesn't begin until the 24th to 27th week of pregnancy--the sixth month.
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This happens to be when a child is viable outside of the womb. If thats where you think human life begins thats fine, but no amount of sophistry is going to change that regardless of its 'human' status a 23 week old fetus is that womans child and abortion is the right to kill that child. I find it hard to take the mind set that it is to be thought of no more than a tumor in the mother, and having it removed no different than removing one..