Your dogmatic religious idea of fetal personhood is irrelevant to a society where not everyone has the same religion.
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Personhood
/ˈpɝ.sən.hʊd/
Synonyms for "personhood" (9 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
human statushumanness
Strong matches (3)
Noun(3 words)
Related words (4)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
7 entriesidentityindividualitylegal conceptmoral philosophypersonal identityphilosophical conceptstate of being
More specific
7 entriesautonomous agencycorporate personhoodcultural personhoodlegal personhoodmoral personhoodself determinationsentient personhood
Collocations
6 entriesdefend personhoodhuman personhoodlegal personhoodmoral personhoodpreserve personhoodrecognize personhood
Inflections
1 entriesSample sentences
4 total sentences available.
[Animals] are conscious; they are subjectively aware; they have interests; they can suffer. No characteristic other than sentience is required for personhood.
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These examples reveal that the shared personhood of hunters and prey was mutually comprehensible, such that hunters could see the animalness of themselves and the humanness of prey, and prey could see the humanness of themselves […]
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A majority of the present world's peoples delay the conferral of personhood (to children).
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