A restaurant is built. The ovens are on, the stoves are burning, the refrigerator is going, and yet, no food is being served, no patrons are dining, etc, etc.
Just because something CAN does not mean it DOES. There is a moment of magic when a business cuts the tape and lets in customers for the first time. Suddenly, it becomes ALIVE. Before this moment, it was merely a functional work in the making. Anything could have destroyed it from coming to that moment. In hurricane Katrina, don't you think that there might have been one company that was going to be ready to open its doors for the first time, to the public, and whoosh, all of that work and effort and diligence came to a screeching halt in a manner of hours.
There is nothing else that happens between the duration of time when the business is being built and formed and created, and the time it actually becomes ALIVE, by doing actual business, besides the act of opening the front doors and saying Welcome.
I cannot describe any better than this the difference between a fetus and a baby who takes a breath. All I can give you is this analogy, and hope that you can understand the concept that there is ALWAYS a solitary act of immense strength, generosity, and acceptance for something to truly become alive. It is divine and beautiful and not the kind of thing that can be attributed to a fetus, which can "die" because the woman was chopped in two or blown to bits by an accident with a fuel truck on the way to the hospital. If it was a baby, a person, it could be covered with something, or saved by something, some freaky weird occurance that many people chalk up to being a miracle, even if it's mother died.
Your analogy is what is subjective you are trying to corelate to what you are now calling an act of divine intervention I guess. I understand perfectly that that is how it think it works. The problem is it just isn't any evidence that is so. It is divine now? This the JD argument of the moment? You accept God's will at that point, but not second prior? And I am the subjective one?
Just because it has a brain, doesnt mean it thinks. Just because it has eyes, doesnt mean it sees. Just because it has ears, doesn't mean it hears. Just because it CAN be independent, doesn't mean it IS.
A fetus simply =/= a newborn, and the only thing separating the two is the one thing you cannot accept.. The breath.
I never argued the having those biological traits are what constitute personhood. THAT is a straw man argument.
Also, I am sick and damned tired of you "coming back" with some ridiculous "Oh you havent explained your case well enough." or some such thing. You Bern, have not listed a single medical journal to support your own claims, and all you have fucking done is try to SAY that based on your own personal and clearly subjective opinions, mine, and my medical journal research is "too difficult to understand" so you just brush it all off and constantly ask the same fucking questions over and fucking over, like a broken record. No, man- I am NOT going to spend the rest of MY life explaining and reexplaining this to you, just because you are to thick to fucking GET it. When you come back with something worth debating, and stop attacking my posts, probably out of a giddy trollish jolly you get from all of this, then I will talk again. Till then buzz off.
And I don't know how much more clearly it can be made for you. THE MEDICAL RESEARCH YOU POSTED DOES NOTHING FOR YOUR ARGUMENT. IT DOES NOT SPEAK TO YOUR ARGUMENT OF PERSONHOOD WHATSOEVER. SO FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP TRYING TO PRETEND IT HELPS YOUR POSITION.
I understand there are certain truths you don't accept. Fortunately for me that does not make them any less true. For example the truth is, like it or not, I don't have to prove my position to be right. All I have to do is prove yours wrong. That is getting easier by the moment since as far as i can tell now you are arguing that personhood requires divine intervention. Which unfortunately is impossible to know, making YOUR position the entirely subjective one.