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The crux for many pro-choicers, and I would argue society (look at the way united states society values animals vs. humans), is not viability but when the fetus because uniquely human, when it can think.

From what I remember from college this happens near the beginning of the third trimester.

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So what the future holds for that individual doesn't matter? Thus it's worse to kill a chimp than an infant?

Bottom line is that a woman doesn't have a right to stop a conceived embyro that is past the point of possible twinning, from continuing on with its life once it is outside of her. Unless she also has the right to do the same with her three month old baby. At this point in time the subject is not an issue. But it will be someday.

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David,

I believe that the crux of this debate may be this: can a fetus actually own itself in any meaningful way?

There is an obvious answer.