Well, there are at least two conversations happening in this thread. The first is the conversation you're talking about, and it seems like most of us have formulated the general rule: abortion is permissible until the point where the fetus has a brain, because at that point it becomes a person and has the same rights as any other person.
The second conversation we're having is with the anti-abortion advocates in the thread. In this sub-conversation, we have another general rule: abortion is never permissible. If we accept this as the rule for the sake of argument, then we must figure out what to do in the outlier situations. Is an exception to the abortion rule permissible in the case of rape? If not, what happens then? At least in the case of
@JonhathonBaxster , his rule is that the woman must carry the fetus to term and then either a) put it up for adoption, b) raise it herself with no financial assistance from the government, or c) marry somebody else to help her raise the rape baby.
Since he is not the only anti-abortion advocate in the thread, it's worth discussing what exceptions, if any, other anti-abortion advocates can accept. Unfortunately, it's hard to have two coherent conversations in a single thread, but the first conversation appears to have been resolved.