Originally posted by LoneStarBuckeye
There are two viable alternatives for defining when life begins: conception or birth. Any other standard would be arbitrary and capricious in practice. The hard core pro-choice camp knows this and that is why they are fighting so hard against the prohibition of PBA.
Actually LSB, you had the answer in your post and didn't know it.
Viability. That is the key.
When the unborn child can live outside of it's host, it IS a person. Non-viable infants cannot be persons because they cannot survive, despite all human efforts, outside of the womb. This criteria rests on a standard which is constantly changing: the capability of technology to sustain a child. The normal point of viability has been slashed by more than ten weeks in the last thirty years and may one day be the moment of conception.
vi·a·ble
adj.
1. Capable of living, developing, or germinating under favorable conditions.
2. Capable of living outside the uterus. Used of a fetus or newborn.
-Lute III/JG26 9th ST WidowMakers