Reply #69: After a fetus' brain starts to work, there is a benefit-of-the-doubt argument ...

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about self-consciousness so personhood.

But there is NO doubt that the mother is a person. So the mother's undoubted personhood would seem to trump a benefit-of-the-doubt. But it is the mother's right to decide how to deal with the benefit-of-the-doubt fetus.

But here's the thing: Roe v Wade allowed greater limitations on choice in the third trimester, when the fetus' brain has "booted up." It is likely wise to stick to support for the Roe v Wade ruling.