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When I saw this graphic, I knew I had to share it. I actually raise this issue in a number of my classes, to highlight the difficult questions that are often simply ignored by those who use phrases such as \u201clife begins at conception\u201d as though they\u00a0were indisputable. Life\u00a0is present long before conception, and consciousness \u2013 if that involves a brain \u2013 is not there until well after. And so, far from being a clear-cut matter, the question of when we should speak of a \u201cperson\u201d who has rights and so on, is ambiguous, and while we must draw dividing lines for legal reasons \u2013 as we do between adults and minors \u2013 those lines are drawn arbitrarily (some people are mature before they turn 18, and others remain immature even beyond that age).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When I saw this graphic, I knew I had to share it. I actually raise this issue in a number of my classes, to highlight the difficult questions that are often simply ignored by those who use phrases such as \u201clife begins at conception\u201d as though they\u00a0were indisputable. Life\u00a0is present long before conception, and consciousness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":29190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[2102,10886,11605,13031],"class_list":["post-29188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pseudoscience","tag-conception","tag-science","tag-soul","tag-twins"],"yoast_head":"\n