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Question: Human Fetus vs. Nonhuman Ape: which constitutes a person?
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A human fetus
 
#2
Nonhuman Great Apes
 
#3
Both are people
 
#4
Neither are people
 
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afleitch
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« on: May 02, 2022, 01:23:21 PM »

Strictly speaking, I don't think personhood is a value-category that can be applied across those two examples.

But if I can't opt out of answering then my own view is that 'personhood' is bestowed upon someone who is unborn by the person who will be giving birth to them if they choose to think of what is occurring inside of them is a person to be delivered to term (which aligns with my views on abortion) or is bestowed by virtue of being born by society. As a humanist in that instance, I would have to respect the wishes of the person who is carrying the unborn if they view it as a person, or potential person.

While I completely accept that distinctiveness and closeness of the closest species to us, they are not human and they are not persons.
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