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Originally Posted by Illuminati Primus
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.
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That's pretty much it for me as well. Viability outside the womb.