re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My personal view is not religious, but I think that once a fetus has a chance of being viable without its mother, then it has a right to life. But up to that point, the mother’s freedom of choice has precedent.

I choose a similar time, but with different reasoning.

I believe personhood is situated in the cerebral cortex; when that attaches to the brainstem and becomes functional, that’s when fetus becomes a human being. Conveniently enough, that happens at around the same time (22 weeks) that the lungs become capable of processing oxygen.

The all-time record for a surviving premature birth is 23 weeks, which is only possible if the birth happens in a. hospital with a state-of-the-art NICU and sufficient staff. Even then, the odds are 50-50.