If you ' re playing Rashawn Melvim you ' re gonna have a bad time <| sep |> Because there ' s no distinguishable difference in a child at 27 weeks and one at 28 weeks . While I ' m not willing to agree that the ability too experience existential fear is the definition of a human person , if we go forward with that definition we need to acknowledge that it ' s an estimate and average . Surely some babies develop faster than others , which means that allowing termination up to 28 weeks both pre and post natal means we ' re surely allowing individual human persons capable of the thought processes you deem defining of the human condition to be terminated at another individual ' s whim . So the problem becomes where do we draw the line ? Is the mark where 95 % of fetuses have not yet hit the mark you seek ? Do we require a test prior to abortion ? If we do a test , we ' d need a third party to verify something important as ending a human life , no ? That ' s akin in my mind to allowing the death penalty to continue knowing we ' re likely to execute innocent men , which I imagine is universally unacceptable .