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When does pregnancy begin? Doctors disagree That a zygote is human does not imply that it is a person I really can't tell you when personhood begins, but I can say with absolute certainty that there's no consensus among scientists "When Does Human Life Begin?" Teaching Human Embryology in the Context of the American Abortion Debate I invite you to actually read these articles. Issues like this do not get resolved by quotes of a sentence or two in a Facebook post. The issue of whether something is life does not address this debate. By the simplest definitions of life, yes, a cancerous tumor is alive and has a different DNA than its host. That is why it spreads on its own. Yes, non-viable pregnancies that may or may not result in miscarriage can be considered life, and the natural conclusion should be that all women who have miscarriages are guilty of third-degree murder, negligent homicide or manslaughter, depending on the state laws. Obviously, this is nonsense, but i...

The Supreme Court of the United States appears to be on the precipice of making the most heinous, inhuman ruling of law since the Dred Scott case. There is no way to sugarcoat the gravity of the stakes. Restricting abortion rights denies a person of their humanity. Fundamental to issue of abortion rights is the concept of bodily autonomy. If a person does not have the right to dominion over their own body, which certainly must be denied in order to deny a pregnant person the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, then truly, a person does not have any other rights at all. Without the self-evident right to bodily autonomy, a citizen of the United States loses all of the following rights which have been sacrosanct since before the Constitution was drafted, before the Declaration of Independence was signed: Freedom of speech Without control over their own body, a person does not have the right to articulate, write or type words. If the state has control over a person's body, the s...