Aren't a person? What is a person? What do you think makes a person?
The business of being a person, like being a human being, is a matter of kind, and not degree. Person is a word that we use to describe a human being but unlike infant, zygote, toddler, fetus, teenager, embryo, and old geezer, it covers the span of a human being's life rather than a specific period. A person is the kind of creature that you are, not something that you can become.
Allow me to explain. If being a person, or a human being were a matter of the degree to which you have manifested your potential, then those who manifest more potential would be more human or more person than those who manifest less potential. No one denies that an infant is both a human being and a person even though they are far from mature and whether they grow up to be a nuclear engineer with an IQ of 175 or a Down's victim with an IQ of 35, the two are equally human and equally persons. There is nothing that you can do to make yourself more human or more of a person because that is simply what you are. By the same token, you can't be un humaned or un personed no matter what may befall you that results in a lesser manifiestation of your potential.
If you are unable to adequately defend your "perspective" of what value is it exactly?
In this country there is no law making abortion legal. There is a court decision which is probably why the issue is so devisive. In europe, the duely elected legislators wrote law that made abortion legal thus effectively giving the people their say. No such thing happened here. Nine unelected, unaccountable robed justices made the decision for us.
Then you are not very familiar with our legal system. The majority of the unconstitutional, imposed liberalism that we live with in this country is forced upon us by the courts because little, if any of it would make it through the congress and the senate. The supreme court, in the past, has been as guilty of judicial activism as any hick court in Cowpat, Iowa.
