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Originally Posted by Tuna
The implication is that if it's human, it should be entitled to human rights and no other man or woman should have a say in it. If it's not, then it's up to the woman to decide if she wants to keep it. Thats my opinion at least.
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We don't give something rights for being human (or at least it doesn't necessarily make sense to). We give something rights based on it's status as a
person, which is distinct from being human. Some scientists, for instance, argue that dolphins and chimpanzees deserve to have at least some rights granted to a "person". Of course, defining what is or is not a person is difficult and sort of impossible to nail down perfectly. A zygote or an embryo or a sperm cell or an egg, clearly have no properties associated with personhood. They don't even have any sort of consciousness, for one.