What is "Personhood?" a politically corect non-gender specific way to avoid the "man" part of the word "human"? Folks who let the enemey define it's terms have lost haff the battle.
An individual human life begins at conception, as the flame of life is passed into him.
Snuffing out the flame as a lifestyle choice, is wrong.
I support what they are trying to do, I just don't like the term "Personhood"
I agree. Arguing the personhood of an early embryo is difficult, especially because personhood is defined by many ethicists and philosophers with a fairly high bar.
Humanity is something else altogether.
Personhood is useful because that is what the 14th Amendment discusses. Defining unborn babies as persons means they are covered by the 14th Amendment. And that would be the end of abortion as a method of birth control in one fell swoop.
Mark wrote: “What is “Personhood?” a politically corect non-gender specific way to avoid the “man” part of the word “human”? Folks who let the enemey define it’s terms have lost haff the battle.
An individual human life begins at conception, as the flame of life is passed into him.”
Snuffing out the flame as a lifestyle choice, is wrong.
I support what they are trying to do, I just don’t like the term “Personhood””
The term “personhood” or “person” is not PC. It comes from pagan and Christian metaphysics. A person is defined by the powers of reason and will. Three kinds of beings are persons: God, angels and humans. Furthermore, if a person has Down syndrome (which can and usually does limit his/her rational powers), he/she is still a person. The limitation of his/her powers is not essential, it is accidental, like race or hair color.
The statement by someone else that “life is a continuum, but personhood is not” is false. Our nature is eternal. Eternity, whether it ends up being heaven or hell, is granted only to persons (God, angels, human beings). So the continuum of eternity is predicated on one’s nature, i.e., personhood.