Reply #5: When does a human person begin?

[damntexdem]

For Xianity, Jewry, and Islam that was traditionally at quickening, when a fetus started moving in the womb. The RC Church more recently switched to conception in it's "prolife" ideology; but it still claims it cannot say when a soul exists.

For reasonable discussion, it COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE before there was a working brain (at about 22 weeks), but that does not mean that that is the point of the beginning of a person. How would we know when, or if, perception of self begins in the womb? Well, Roe v Wade in effect gave some benefit of the doubt by allowing restrictions in the third trimester, but it still effectively preserved the greater weight to be given to who is a known human person -- the mother.