re: #311 nikis-knight

Well, we’ve proved that there is nothing special about birth; babies can be delieved via C-section prior to full development and are babies like any others. Viability is a moving target. There is no fixed point, growth and development is a gradual process from begininng through birth and beyond.
Well, there is one point. Conception. The point of acquiring new DNA, from which point onwards there is no sudden transition, only gradual growth.

But I hope you can agree that believing conception marks personhood is a philosophical issue?

What about quickening? When is it conception? When the sperm enters the egg?