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Originally Posted by cellophanedeity
I'm not against killing humans. I am against killing persons.
And while I know that this brings up the whole "women weren't considered persons a hundred years ago" thing, I don't think it's necessarily the same. Women display characteristics of personhood, and in my opinion, fetuses don't. At least not at first.
Perhaps I'm a selfish, terrible and unethical person, but this is just what I believe.
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Newborn infants don't display a lot of "characteristics of personhood" either, yet most people wouldn't kill them them casually in the modern western world. However, in other parts of the world and in the west not so long ago, infanticide is/was as accepted as abortion is today, when you inconveniently had a female child or twins.
Not that long ago, people (in the church, in the scientific community) claimed blacks were subhuman, were not persons, etc.