Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.You show me when an embryo becomes a human person, just show me! Tell me exactly when it is. When it's just an egg, the size of a pin head? When it divides once? Twice? Three times? When? Where you gonna draw the line? An embryo is not a person, and that's that.

What will be an ideal response?


Line-drawing fallacy.

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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