>>342 Unique persona = Human being. I'll take that to some gestation specialist and try to figure out when that is possible. Some neuronic communication between flesh and the proprioceptive center of the brain is nothing compared to the sense of 'I', a cerebral appreciation of the corporal self. Until I got that down, I'll side with pro-life because a few dead humans isn't as horrible as the devaluation of half of American life. If you can't factualize something you go for what gives a net gain, even though it is crude. I've sprung roots on this position, I'm afraid.
"Irrelevant. Skin cells don't = developing human lives with consciousness." So it's all about resemblance, or what? We can't let outward appearance dictate this. That can be classified as a tumor until there is a mind that has amassed a unique experience of the ovarian circumstances. Unique genotype is not enough, nor is the shape of the body. A unique mind, a sliver of 'I' must be protected.
Also, the decisions of politicians and the availability of birth control/sex ed/nearby clinics is NOT irrelevant, because no matter how much rightwingers demand that anyone can do anything in America with a little hard work it is gooblygook. You are less meritocratic than SWEDEN at the moment, who have above 50 % taxation and a gigantic public sector, for two. Equal rights is something women had to fight for against heavy opposition and demonizing, but that is nothing compared to the barriers in people's minds. Gender oppression is not only domestic abuse, gender oppression are innumerable, accumuluated problems that becomes very large the wider your scope. Legal equality did not suffice.