Re: Why make "Person" only an either or definition and not a continuum?

I'll tell you what is irrational ... saying that a strand of DNA is only "potentially human". The benefit of Science is that it can definitely say whether that parciular sample of tissue is homo sapiens or not. One thing we now know for sure : you give a sample of tissue from a human being to an independent lab, and they won't be able to discern what age that human being was, or is.

In your irrational continuum of qualifying a being for membership in the human family, a baby completely developed but one day before the birth process starts, gets put in the same category as just a "zygote". Thus, logically, you must believe that that perfect baby is exactly the same ones aborted by the DX procedure, in Kansas. He hauls them out of their mothers feet first, except the skull, legs kicking, then pierces the brainstem from behind, so as to kill them, then hauls the now-still corpse all the way out and declares "see, just a clump of cells!"

Pretending that the child unborn is NOT a person, puts you in the company of Tiller the Killer and those who call infanticide = "health services". That's why LOGICALLY, your position of the continuum towards a "full human" leads to infanticide. If you need proof, go read your history and find out exactly how that happened in the Third Reich. They put Margaret Sanger's theories into practice about "lesser beings" whose lives were not worth living.

GW=justice_critic