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Is the nature of personhood really that important? Since rational people clearly can't agree on a definition, maybe we should we should just go and ask the irresponsible people who get pregnant by accident to deal with the consequences of their actions. At least until it is proven more substantially that a cell/fetus/human life form/person is not worth saving at the expense of a 22 year old's party years.

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Let's prove more substantially that a cell/fetus IS worth saving.

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Exactly.

Do we make a chain smoker deal with their lung cancer until we prove that the cancer cells are not people? Do we make a cell-phone user (lol) deal with their brain tumor before we decide that tumor is not a person?

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Lung cancer and brain tumors are life threatening disaeses. That's an irrelevant comparison.

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How about removing a mole for cosmetic purposes, then?