The Fetus as a Person
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As in the case of the embryo, if you believe that the fetus is a person, you must explain how this can be true in spite of the fact that it lacks many of the important features found in the undisputed cases of persons. The fetus does not reason, is not aware of itself as a thinking being, does not have ideas about its future, does not make moral choices, does not act as a moral agent, and so forth.

Of course, a late term fetus is very much like an infant, and we usually think of an infant as a person. But how do we know that we are right? (Infants don't have much of an intellectual or moral life either.)

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