text: For starters, the Catholic Church does not teach that the unborn human being IS a person. Please read CCC #2270 and 2274. It says that it is a human being that needs to be TREATED AS a person, in terms of dignity. 
  
  Second, whether the unborn child is a person or not is not a religious postulate. It is a biological, medical, philosophical, sociological, psychological issue. Pro abortion people like to paint it as a religious issue, simply to be able to brush it off as such (as "religious" these days has become pretty much a swear word), in order to avoid any other discussion.