Abortion

I don't know if I'm speaking for the person you were addressing or not, Tater, but I think that perhaps what was meant by being a different person is that life experience changes who you are. What you're exposed to in life, the way you're brought up, the people you meet, the books you read... All that goes into shaping you. When you're born, you're basically an empty slate. There are some things about you that cannot be changed and others that can. Psychologists have, in the past, taken sets of identical twins and separated them at birth. They did this to try to determine whether a given characteristic was born in a person or came about through outside influences. Not everything about you is inborn. Take your religion for example. If you had been born to, say, Hindu parents you you would not have the same belief system as you would had you been born to an Islamic family. If I look back on my life, I can see changes in things I believe over the past 10 years and certainly over the past 20. So I don't see how it's illogical to say the fetus is not the person it grows into. Certain things are there from the start, but not everything.