By the way, I have been stating that consciousness is necessary for personhood to exist. I was incorrect about that. I thought of this analogy. If a person, hypothetically, had always been in a coma but alive, it would clearly be wrong to kill that person. Therefore, since a zygote, whether the zygote has consciousness at conception or not, will have a consciousness in the future, abortion is murder regardless. The definition of personhood is therefore genetic distinctness (if a genetically distinct being has human DNA, of course).

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