Some reposts from my "attic": ------------- (JBH) I'm bewildered by this argument. (That this argument happens at all.) The crucial word is "person". It is not "life", it is not even "human life". The sperm and the egg are alive, the fertilized egg is alive, so are the farm animals we kill by the millions for food. So is the grass we mow for the sake of appearance. "Human life" is less obviou…