John Crown (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties should understand that I come from this with no particular ideological baggage. My own position is that an early embryo does not have the rights of a person and that many foetuses that are legally aborted in otherwise civilised countries, and in the United Kingdom, are, in fact, humans who are being deprived of their right to personhood, a process which, I believe, occurs some place during gestation as yet undefined due to the failings of my profession to ethically grasp the nettle which it should have grasped. At what stage does the Irish Council for Civil Liberties believe that a foetus acquires some rights which would be defended by the actions of the council?