I see no appreciatable difference between a blastocyst and egg or a sperm. They are potential life or "partial life". You draw the line in one place, I draw the line in the other. There is nothing you have shown me that convinces me they are any different then the dog I have to euthanize. You keep citing a legal definition - but what gives it any power beyond an arbritary rule? You are asking me to make decisions based on a premise I might not be able to accept.
It would be as if I were in a court of law facing murder charges because I chose to use an IUD despite the fact that there is no body and in my mind no victim and no "person" killed.
I have taken sides in a life and death question of a person. We don't agree on our definition of person. If I don't regard a blastocyst as a person - what makes it different then euthanizing my dog? If my life hung in the balance - well, I'm already a person. I would expect different arguments. Just saying something is a "person" doesn't make it a person - there has to be some substance behind it.
If I adhere to the restrictions you impose on this argument then you are right. But in order to accept that, I must likewise accept that I can not condone the deliberate killing of any living creature because without the concept of "person" there is nothing that makes a human life any greater then any other life but some sort of arbritray legal termonology.
Because you're drawing a false dichotomy here...if I am supporting killing them, I am not supporting killing a person while if my life is on the line - I am a person. Because I also don't see it as a clear cut issue of total rights vs. no rights. I see the mother's rights as greater than what she carries at the beginning. As the fetus develops (and becomes a persons) it's rights gradually rise and hers diminish. The fetus does not have equal rights to life until it is born because - if there should be a life/death decision between one life or the other, we place a higher value on the mother.
I didn't say between a person and a human being - specifically because I see no difference between a human being and any other animal.
