What is Personhood?
Personhood is the cultural and legal recognition of the equal and unalienable rights of human beings.
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Personhood is the cultural and legal recognition of the equal and unalienable rights of human beings.
See more at: http://www.personhoodusa.com/about-us/what-is-personhood/
Myth: Abortion doesn't kill a person
Reality: The preborn are human
Whether we’re talking about a preborn baby days after conception or one who is days away from being born, these babies only have four differences with us: 1) Size, 2) Location, 3) Environment, and 4) Dependency.
If we base our measure of a person on any of these things, we are heading down a terribly slippery slope. Our society will begin (and indeed, has already begun) to take away the rights of the disabled, elderly, and sick. More and more human beings will be classified as “non-people,” and their basic right to life will be stripped away.
Classifying a group of humans as non-people is the easiest way to kill them en masse, with little objection.
If we base our measure of a person on any of these things, we are heading down a terribly slippery slope. Our society will begin (and indeed, has already begun) to take away the rights of the disabled, elderly, and sick. More and more human beings will be classified as “non-people,” and their basic right to life will be stripped away.
Classifying a group of humans as non-people is the easiest way to kill them en masse, with little objection.
- “In the eyes of the law…the slave is not a person.”
- “An Indian is not a person within the meaning of the Constitution.”
- [People purged by the Soviet government were called] “unpersons who had never existed.”
- “The Reichsgericht itself refused to recognize Jews…as ‘persons’ in the legal sense.”
- “The statutory word ‘person’ did not in these circumstances include women.”