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Originally Posted by Latenter
Personally, I would put the line at the development of a nervous system/brain, where it is no longer a lump of cells and meat, and is becoming a lifeform, even if still dependent. I think this starts to happen pretty early, at around 2 weeks (I think, I haven't looked in a while.)
Interestingly for me, that means that I think the morning after pill should probably be legal, and I'm mostly for stem cell research, though I might still find parts of it distasteful.
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All central nervous systems are not equal.
Even the Central Nervous System of a 20-22 week foetus can't be made to develop anywhere approaching properly or near acceptably outside the womb even if you can have the entity there _survive_ to a full term 'age' at least. i.e. At that point there's still not enough matter there to kick-start with.
The abortion laws were hotly debated in the UK a few years ago based on distorted evidence presented through certain newspapers... This is how I came to look into it. I may be off on some of my figures, but the gist holds.
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