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Old 30th August 2011, 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Illuminati Primus View Post
I'm happy with the concept of life beginning at conception (as long as there is no talk of a soul involved) but something that's harder to determine for me is the idea of personhood. Obviously this is a very pertinent question because it has an impact on when you're producing guidelines on abortions, and at what point you seriously attempt to save a child that is born prematurely.

For me a foetus isn't a person until it is has developed to the point where it could feasibly survive outside the mother without heavy medical intervention, so part way through the third trimester.
That's pretty much it for me as well. Viability outside the womb.
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