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Re:US police use digital data to prosecute abortions by anigbrowl on Sunday January 29, 2023 @08:05PM (#34574634)
Premise rejected. DNA is not the yardstick here. Human DNA tells you nothing about the level of development or self-sustainability. Your fingernail clippings contain your DNA; by your logic, clipping your fingernails is a form of suicide.

A fetus in the early stages of development is not alive in the regular sense because it is incapable of independent survival and lacks the requisite organs to sustain itself, experience pain etc.

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Re:US police use digital data to prosecute abortions by 29athrowaway on Monday January 30, 2023 @10:17PM (#34590426)
Many neonates are not self-sustainable after birth. Some will never become self-sustainable and will depend on machines and medications to survive for the rest of their life.

Most elderly people including yourself some years from now will not be "self-sustainable". You will need help to move around, you will need medications to survive and all sorts of help.

There is a congenital disorder which makes you insensitive to pain. Does that make you not human?

It is a rather dumb argument.

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