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Abortion: The Window Of Debatable Personhood
Anyone who has actually done their research on pregnancy would know the following:
A person definitely is 100% a person when they're born. That's not debatable.
No mammal without a brain has been capable of thought. That's not debatable.
At 13 weeks, the brain actually does develop in the foetus and is capable of some activity. Before that point it's not a brain, but merely a neural plate (essentially the blueprint for the brain, not an actual brain itself). Fact.
At 20 weeks, the baby can actually be born and survive outside the womb, which means it's the earliest point of personhood by autonomy and not just thought alone. Fact.
So the
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Two Brothers
Two brothers worked together on the family farm. One was married and had a large family. The other was single. At the day's end, the brothers shared everything equally, produce and profit. Then one day the single brother said to himself, "it's not right that we should share equally the produce and the profit. I'm alone and my needs are simple." So each night he took a sack of grain from his bin and crept across the field between their houses, dumping it into his brother's bin. Meanwhile, the married brother said to himself, "It's not right that we should share the produce and the profit equally. After all, I'm married and I have my wife and my children to look after me in years to come. My brother has no one, and no one to take care of his future." So each night he took a sack of grain and dumped it into his single brother's bin. Both men were puzzled for years because their supply of grain never dwindled. Then one dark night the two brothers bumped into each other. Slowly it
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