Abortion Thread Done Right

It is said that there are both wrong answers and wrong questions.

Regardless of the legal issues -- which constitutes another story entirely -- the moral issue of abortion revolves around two fundamental questions:

1) When does a human gain its rights? (answer must be in the form of a point in time in the life of an individual)

i.e. At what point does a human become a human?

Related questions:

why do humans get rights?
what is a right?
what is a human?

2) Do we need consent from the unborn in order to do things to them? (answer must be in the form of a 'yes' or 'no')

i.e. What acts are we allowed to do to something/one who cannot possibly give consent to that act?

Related questions:

can we give birth without consent?
can we do anything to another without consent?
why is consent important?
can consent be assumed/anticipated?

The two questions are kind of the same if you want to say that consent is important in the case where a human has rights, but they are not obviously connected otherwise.

Cases in point: 1) a human can have rights and consent does not have to matter. 2) a human can not have rights and (but) consent still matters.

Answer those questions and the conclusion follows. Personally, I don't think either are hard, but I have a pretty complex set of beliefs to back that up...

Just sayin'. I'm feeling a bit dizzy right now btw...

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