--- slimvirgin(a)gmail.com wrote:
I would say it's NPOV to say that a fetus is
human
life (what other
kind of life could it be if it's a human fetus?),
but it's POV to
attribute personhood to the fetus, which is a legal
issue only
indirectly tied to the biological one.
Well, "personhood" in this case is a kind of misnomer
for "humanity." Hence debates regarding the humanity
of the fetus are also included even though, yes,
"personhood" is a social (hence, legal) definition,
and humanity is a universal (and coincidentally,
biological) definition.
SV
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