Indo-Malaysia wrote:The New California Republic wrote:A fetus does not satisfy the definition of personhood, that's why. If we extend personhood to fetuses at all stages of development, we start getting into all sorts of weird contradictions, such as blastocysts being called people, even though it is just a bunch of about a dozen or so cells...
Are we not all bunches of cells? Why do these particular cells not attain personhood, whereas ours do.
Still not particularly relevant. Even if the fetus were to be treated as a person, it has no right to use the woman’s body without her consent.