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Originally Posted by LessinSF
An acorn is not a tree. If you believe that a blastocyte has a "soul" such as to justify forcing a woman to term, we cannot have a rational discussion.
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Eventually, the science will provide adequate consensus regarding where pain is felt by a fetus. It'll never be a perfect delineation, but it will provide some strong guidance that can't be attacked by some hack pseudo-research from the pro-lifers.
This has always been an argument of absolutes where an argument of degree was appropriate. It's understandable, of course, as pro-choice people have been forced into a situation where they cannot concede an inch. But it's led to a very dumb debate. I don't think even most pro-lifers really believe conscious life begins at conception. It's flatly absurd.
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