Re: Abortion

A fertilized cell is NOT a "person" - but a 8.9 month
fetus has everything required to be so except a seperate
mailing address. Clearly "personhood" - moral and 
hopefully legal - is something that *develops* as the
pregnancy advances. 

There's no clear line, but it seems that the MIDDLE
point - 4.5 months - would make a fair delineator 
between 'tissue' and 'citizen'.  Arguments that 
revolve around either extreme of the process are
just missing the realities of pregnancy. You start
with no one and end up with someone - but the
change isn't instantaneous.