Yesterday, 09:38 AM
It's really not, though. At conception, a genetically distinct individual human being exists. It is at a stage of it's development in that moment that is every bit as legitimate as the day after, and the day after that, and the day after that all the way thru his/her birth, adolescence, puberty, adulthood, decline, seniority, and up to the moment of death.
I just don't see where this is debatable at all. I've seen every argument to the contrary - "viability"; well, viability is constantly changing due to advancements in medicine. And frankly without modern medicine, viability is a period well into early adolescence, at best. So if "viability" is the point at which a "fetus" becomes a human being, then practically abortion is legitimate up to the age of 12, likely. "Sentience"; there are moments in a humans life where they are clearly not sentient. Do they lose their humanity in those moments? "Spontaneous abortion/miscarriage"; utter nonsense - no one is getting arrested if I have a sudden heart attack and die. Life ends. It happens. Sometimes it happens in the womb, and sometimes it happens when a person is 115 years old.
It is NOT debatable as to when life begins. A single cell bacteria is considered "life" by "science", but we're still pretending that a genetically distinct, growing and developing human embryo is not human life. It's absurd.
I can at least respect the pro-abortionists who acknowledge that it's a human life and still demand the right to murder it at their whim, like Caitlin Johnstone (unfortunately) - at least they're being honest; but this piddling nonsense about "well, we're not really sure when it actually becomes 'life'" is just a freaking cop out.
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