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Originally Posted by photon
Skin cells and bacteria are life too.
There's no way to draw a line because there's no line to be drawn. It's like looking at colours on a prism and trying to say where one colour ends and another begins. I can point to one colour and say this is definitely green (a blastula isn't a person), and point to another and say this is definitely blue (there's no difference between 5 minutes before birth and 5 minutes after birth), but I can't point at something and say exactly where it changes from one to the other.
You can't say life/not life or human/not human because those attributes are not adequate to describe what's trying to be described.
It's a complicated involvement of many different factors.. viability, how much suffering is experienced, how much suffering can be experienced, self awareness, etc.
I don't think there can be any absolute answer, other than earlier is better.. and the vast majority abortions take place quite early (like 91% before 12 weeks I think I read in one UK stat).
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I really think most Canadians would get behind some protection for the child after 5 or 6 months. That wouldn't satisfy me or most of the pro-life crowd but, it would be better than what we have now.
Sometimes difficult questions have to be address. Ignoring the unborn is what Canadians are doing now.