On killing a human blastocyst

[Syne]

No adult person has the "right" to a funeral, obituary, or mourning.

It's a well nigh universal cultural tradition we participate in to honor persons who have died. The fact that such would be ridiculous for a dead blastocyst is because nobody in their right mind considers them persons despite what some bible-thumping judge in backwoods Alabama proclaimed. Ever hear of a reductio ad absurdum?

Not persons you've only known for 5 days.

Again, it's moron leftists who introduced the completely ambiguous term "personhood." They are the only reason such language is being used at all. Deal.

[Magical Realist]

No adult person has the "right" to a funeral, obituary, or mourning.

It's a well nigh universal cultural tradition we participate in to honor persons who have died. The fact that such would be ridiculous for a dead blastocyst is because nobody in their right mind considers them persons despite what some bible-thumping judge in backwoods Alabama proclaimed. Ever hear of a reductio ad absurdum?

Not persons you've only known for 5 days.

Again, it's moron leftists who introduced the completely ambiguous term "personhood." They are the only reason such language is being used at all. Deal.

Actually it was the Catholic Church that first went down the "conception is the beginning of life and personhood" road. "Leftists" had nothing to do with it.

"Following the decline of the Western Roman Empire and the adoption of Christianity as the Roman state religion, ecclesiastical courts held wide jurisdiction throughout Europe. According to Donald DeMarco, PhD, the Church treated the killing of an unformed or "unanimated" fetus as a matter of "anticipated homicide", with a corresponding lesser penance required. In the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the following statement regarding the beginning of human life and personhood is provided: "Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life."---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beginning_...personhood

[Syne]

No, now you're just missing the obvious equivocation between "person" and "personhood." The former is just the rights of any human life (a synonym) because it is imbued with a soul, whereas the latter is a newer conception more closely related to self-awareness.

[Magical Realist]

LOL. You're an idiot..

per·son
/ˈpərs(ə)n/
noun
1.
a human being regarded as an individual.
"the porter was the last person to see her"

Similar:
human being
individual
man/woman
human
being
living soul

per·son·hood
/ˈpərsənˌ(h)o͝od/
noun
the quality or condition of being an individual person.
"the documentary attempts to get behind the icon, to a sense of her personhood"

[Syne]

And you STILL don't understand the difference.

You not comprehending your own citations apparently extends to the entire English language.
I'll explain it to ya, if you ask nicely.

[Magical Realist]

I have no interest in how you make up your own definitions of words to support your own baseless claims. That's why I rely on the dictionary for an unbiased and universally agreed upon definition.

[Syne]

It's the definitions you posted, but apparently you can't manage to discern any difference.