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Originally Posted by Locke
Size: If size can determine humanity, than are small people less human that tall people?
Level of development: If level of development can determine humanity, are mentally retarded people less human than others?
Degree of Dependency: If degree of dependency can determine humanity, then are children or the elderly less human that others?
Location: If location can determine humanity, that are people in other countries less human than us?
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Size: no one is so small that they are still being developed in a womb.
Level of development: mental retardation is a handicap that has already developed while an embryo/fetus is still developing.
Degree of Dependency: no other "human" (if you would like me to call it that) lives off of another person, in this kind of physical extension.
Location: no other person lives in a uterus (even though they have, I don't see the fetus being a person).
Also, you are talking like these descriptions can be split apart regarding the fetus, but they are linked.
My 2 cents
