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you said "...men and women are parasites on other people...That doesn't stop them from being human."
No one is asserting that fetuses are not living or not human. The question is about them being persons with legal rights.
In this age of genetic engineering, a chimera might contain mostly human DNA, blended with some other species, but will it be a person? Is the DNA complement the issue? Is so, how is the humanness of that DNA determined so the person-ness can be ascribed?
As for the issue of having "birth" be the issue, as the law seems to dictate, what exactly does it mean to be "born" and is this really the issue that should determine if a fetus changes into a person at that point?
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