Thread: A Complete Epiphany on Abortion

I was watching Youtube videos recently, and I saw one of those rare videos that completely centers you on a previously shaky issue. I won't embed it since the whole thing isn't very necessary, but it was Penn Jillette on one of his Penn Says short videos.

His friend presented him with the idea that the life cycle should be symmetrical. So the line to cross into being considered alive should be the same as the line into death. Someone is dead when any brain activity is no longer possible in that person, so when brain activity is able to begin is when someone should be considered alive. He didn't remember exactly and I didn't look it up, but said this happens sometime around two months after conception.

I absolutely love this idea, because I was never able to totally agree with the pro-choice side since I couldn't find a way to reason it out completely, and I was never able to fully disagree with the pro-life side since their points weren't entirely unreasonable to me (close to it, but I never had the absolute killer response to their arguments). I am so happy to finally have a solid position on this and now I'm sharing!

Edit: Here is the original video since my post seems to be unclear:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3koXGHud8U"]YouTube - Penn Says: Viewer Mail - Abortion[/ame]