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Alongside what Vindris just said, I just want to point out two other things.

1) Is there really a difference between "human person" and "human being"? Is this distinction ever used except when justifying why it is OK to destroy a human being?

2) Viability is vague. You put a zygote out of the womb and it will die near-instantly. You leave a baby out of the womb and it will die after a few days. Neither is really independently viable, yet presumably a baby can't be killed, while a foetus can. The same thing also applies as above; do we ever use this argument of viability in any other situation except when we're trying to justify why it is OK to destroy a human being?

Viability also depends on your ability to provide childcare. Since Roe vs. Wade, the date for viability has been pushed back and back, so this argument would have to admit that foetuses who once could have been aborted, no longer can be. Are you suggesting that the right-to-life is granted by our ability to look after a foetus or person? Why would a 1 week foetus in poverty-stricken South Sudan be less deserving of life than a 1 week foetus in first-world Austria? They're both exactly the same kind of thing.
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