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“Abortion does not kill”… Umm… No. Biologically speaking it does exactly that. Scientifically speaking that is the actual intention of abortion. Sometimes it’s perhaps for the best I’m not disputing that, I’m not judging those of you who have had abortions, but it does kill. This is a simple truth that requires no deep revelation to realize.
Yes, but you left out the ‘child’ part. It’s obvious that an abortion ends a biological process that allows the collection of cells that make up a foetus to regenerate and grow - the debate about abortion is not based on a dispute of scientific fact, rather it has to do with one’s personal philosophy of what one does and does not consider human, and so, like with many issues political, there is no inherently correct answer.
Agreed. Though for my part I consider it human fairly quickly. When it develops a heart or brain for example. But that’s me.
But even then, aren’t we all clumps of cells? What then makes it not okay to kill us?
Let’s say I have a plot of land where I plan to build a house. I build half a fence and before I even get to building the foundation I decide I no longer want a house. Am I a crazed home destroying criminal because I tear down the fence I built?
Leveling your own home isn’t a crime either way…
Leveling another person’s home, however is a crime.
The ‘clump of cells’ is not your property, it’s not an object, it’s not a fence, it won’t ever be a house that you can own and sell. It’s your child. You are it’s guardian.
You don’t define ‘life’, ‘death’ or ‘human being’ based on your convenience.
I’m not even anti all abortions. But the pro-abortion side is waaay too eager to claim a fetus is just a sticky goo of cells that you can dispose off as easily as blowing your nose.
No brain, no mind. No mind, no person.
The dispute arises due to a combination of two things. The first is that religious people believe in a process of ensoulment that allows something that lacks a functioning brain (not through all of development, but through a big chunk of it) to be considered a person despite having no mind. The second is our intuitions that this is a bad idea, which possibly exist because infant and maternal mortality were much higher in the ancestral environment, or just a vague discomfort with killing, etc etc.
My suggestion is that the pro-life side go invent better birth control, rather than depending on something they know will fail, but oh wait they aren’t consequentialists.