>unfertilized embryo
You should probably go back and take middle school biology lessons before participating in this thread any further. Although I guess it would make sense that they don't teach reproductive biology in school anymore, since that would require teaching that men aren't women.
Not a Jewish woman, you're right about that much. How old are you? I'm curious if you're gonna make a hat trick on stereotypes here.
And do you trust """scientists""" who tell you that men are women?
As I said: Self-awareness. You could potentially tack on some other qualifiers like the ability to reason, to understand and perceive the flow of time, or something else like that. It doesn't really matter for reasons already explained. What most definitely does not define consciousness is electrical activity firing across neurons.
I don't think I've even referenced religion. If I did, I certainly haven't based any of my arguments on it. As is typical for abortion advocates, you're the one trying to lean on "religion bad" because you cannot cope with the central issue. And no, I don't argue faith with non-Christians anyways. Or at least, certainly not with Jews or atheists. Do you even practice the actual Jewish faith? I suspect you merely consider yourself a "cultural" or "ethnic" Jew. I don't feel like looking it up right now, but I'm pretty sure Jews who actually practice the religion (rather than simply claiming Jewish identity for virtue points) also condemn abortion.
Oh I'm not saying I expect better, just saying that's why I don't bother responding to every single thing this person says, because most of it is redundant, extremely retarded, or both. I'm actually pretty surprised by the quality of discussion on here, there's only a couple troglodyte-level posters (snailslime and Freya) with most posters being relatively coherent. Certainly better than you would get in a typical social media exchange on this subject, in which you would be drowned in the rabid screeching of NPCs if you didn't just get outright banned or censored.