re: #123 Big Steve

It’s a sorites paradox, any cut-off point is going to be arbitrary. It doesn’t mean that the fetus/embryo is always a human person, like anti-choicers like to argue. It’s just when selecting the cut-off point one must take the best data available. E.g. I think reasonable people should agree that before the cerebral cortex is formed the fetus cannot be considered a person since it has no functioning brain, which is a necessary pre-requisite. Even here the sorites paradox is in place since there is no single moment of “conversion”.