That a newborn is a person, is an observation-based “view”aka a FACT. Not subject to semantics or politics, just a FACT.
An unborn human is a fetus. At 18 weeks or 80 weeks, it’s a FETUS. If you don’t have a definitive, instantaneous personhood test for fetuses, your attempt to muddy the waters is just stupid IMO.
I believe that at some point in the pregnancy, it's not 'just a fetus' but is a baby
When, Emily? WHEN does a fetus become a baby?
To be fair, she has already said that she doesn't and cannot know - just that it's not one at conception, but is one by the time it is born.
It's like this:
You can't draw an objective single line separating the red from the blue, but there's no doubt that the beginning is not the same as the end.
To me, this is as good an argument as any for letting each mother draw the line where she chooses, without interference from the law...
You're drawing an arbitrary line at "So tell me". Then you're arguing that "If we have red text" and "evolution to occur" exist on a continuum where we can't draw an instantaneous and unambiguous distinction that every one of those lines is red.
And of course, that I'm a stupid evil hateful person because I disagree with where you've arbitrarily drawn the line.
In reality, however, I recognize that there's a continuum, but also that there's a meaningful difference between "If we have red text" and "evolution to occur". I can look at it at say that the former is definitely
red, the latter is definitely
blue, and a whole lot in the middle is definitely
purple. And I can make the determination that for most reasonable people, everything above "macroscopic" is probably going to be considered
not blue, which doesn't mean it's
blue... it just means it's definitely
not blue. And I can look at the rest and make a judgement that from "will illustrate" down, most reasonable people will agree that it's
definitely blue.
I can also use solid reasoning and logic to conclude that somewhere in between "large enough" and "first word here" is the inflection point - somewhere in those few lines is where the difference between purple and blue gets drawn. It might differ by word as well as line for every person, and sure some people are going to draw their line at the very first letter, and some are going to argue that the line is off the page entirely because people don't reach "full blue" until they're 10. But the vast majority of people are going to be in that same range.
And I can propose that the optimal solution between the conflicting rights of the mother and the fetus is somewhere in there. You can make an argument for exactly which line - you might even be able to convince me that a specific word in that line is the right place to draw the boundary. I recognize and accept that there is a range of uncertainty with no clear delineation.
But you can't convince me "you are now still reading red" is the only part of the prose that is
genuinely blue.
