Bingowings said:
I've seen this picture used before. As I've said, I see the argument, particularly from non-religious folks, that the above is not a person. I disagree, but that is beside the point for the moment. I'll concede not the argument itself, but rather that an argument can be made that such is not a person (though no woman knows she is pregnant at that point anyway).
Usually by the time a woman knows she is pregnant, the baby looks like this:
Some might call this the "prawn stage" ;) As you can see, quite a bit has developed. including a little heart that is actually beating the child's own blood through its own circulatory system, completely separate from the mother's.
Here is what my child looks like right now.
http://www.babycenter.com/fetal-development-images-22-weeks
The child has its own nervous system. She looks like a little person. She can hear, which, as I pointed out in an earlier article, allows for the very earliest development of language skills. She can suck her thumb. She kicks my wife. She sees light and dark. She can touch and feel things. She can Were she to be born today, assuming she survived delivery, she would struggle for life (much like Baby Jayden did in the article I first posted to bump this thread). In the US, if my wife decided, "You know what? I really don't want this fetus to actually become a person. Too much work. Expensive diapers that will only get poo on them. I'm going to have an abortion." She would not need my permission, or even consent.
"Honey, I'm home! What a day at work. How was your day?"
"Oh, I aborted our daughter."
"What!?"
To me, though my daughter is not yet viable, she is clearly a person, and it amazes me that anyone, even non-religious persons, can doubt it. Obviously I believe personhood goes further back than that, but this demonstrates my point for skeptics I hope.
