text: You are correct to state: "A ‘person’ is what ‘society’ says it is. There are no ‘legal rights and duties’ except in relation to a society."  However, of all the obligations of society over time from generation to generation, perhaps the first and foremost obligation is to honor, respect, teach, learn, and pass along intact the language of the people, that is: to recognize the supreme importance of first-meaning dictionary word definitions (etymologically, the oldest originating definitions) and therefore preserve, protect, and defend those definitions at all times, especially when society wants to give itself the right to change ancient word definitions that carry the very substance and mystery of transcendent things.  Luke 2:21 (NRSV) states: "... and he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb."  How should that passage inform any discussion about abortion? and zygotes?  Who are we?  And how should we rightly think about ourselves?