"Now that we’ve started talking about identity, today Hank tackles the question of personhood. Philosophers have tried to assess what constitutes personhood with a variety of different criteria, including genetic, cognitive, social, sentience, and the gradient theory. As with many of philosophy’s great questions, this has much broader implications than simple conjecture. The way we answer this question informs all sorts of things about the way we move about the world, including our views on some of our greatest social debates."
Conservative Christians use the concept of personhood for a product of conception within a woman in a rigid manner. The video below takes a more nuanced look at it (view to the end, as
bodily autonomy is addressed briefly):
Personhood: Crash Course Philosophy
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