Well, try telling that to a pregnant lady at a party and see what happens. "How's the little parasite doing?" *gets smacked*
The thing with a a parasite is that it is of a different species than the host. It is incredibly smaller than the host by nature. A human embryo/fetus is a human embryo/fetus. It would only be a parasite if the host was not a human (which is impossible, since it's a human baby).
Even if you somehow disagreed with this, I'll come back to my point on the supposed metaphysical reality of a baby. Why is an unborn baby only a baby when people want it to be one?
To the first question: an organism [the baby] does exist once it is conceived.
To the second question: the unborn child is living in the sense that is alive; it isn't dead
By decision I meant in the future tense, but also the present tense. In the present tense because eventually, once the embryo develops into a fetus, it does have cognitive function and can experience pain. Pain is a survival mechanism; so when a baby experiences pain (such as when it is killed in the later stages of a pregnancy), it is making the decision to want to survive. Also, in the future tense because if that baby is not aborted, it will eventually grow up and be old enough to think to itself, "Hey, I'm glad my mother didn't abort me."
Even so, "I think, therefore I am", does not make a person a person. It only makes the person know for a fact that he exists in his reality. A lack of a yet to be developed brain does not make a unborn baby no longer an unborn baby.
Well, let's consider how many abortions are actually from rape victims.
"Another important statistic that you must al-ways cite is also from the Guttmacher Institute. In the last 25 years Guttmacher has conducted two major studies asking women why they chose abortion and their answers have remained basically the same: Only 7% of women report that their abortion was because of a health reason or a possible health problem with the baby, and less than half a percent report that their abortion was because they became pregnant as a result of rape." - reference: Lawrence B. Finer et al., 113-14.
92% of abortions in America are purely elective -- done on healthy women to end the lives of healthy children."
- reference: Lawrence B. Finer et al., 113-14.
It used to be illegal; so are you saying that just because something is currently legal that that makes it the right thing to do? I mean, look at marijuana: that used to be illegal but now it's becoming legal. But since it is still illegal, shouldn't that mean with that same logic that it should stay illegal?
But that's like saying it's OK for a man to kill another man because that man's not responsible for his own existence (technically, no one is; we all come from our mothers, and our mothers come from our grandmothers, and so on) and because that man doesn't meaningfully affect his own existence otherwise (maybe he's a hermit or something).
Why should there be a reason where it is right to abort a baby? Let's equate that to the world we live in: why should there be a reason where it is right to murder someone (murder, not kill; we're not talking about self-defense here
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But if we equate "abortion" to "murder" then it does become a moral issue, rather than just a functional one.
Well, say we lived in a society where it was OK to steal from the poor. Would it be wrong if I had a campaign to point out that it is immoral to steal from the poor?
My personal aim isn't to shame, it's to prevent. If someone has already had an abortion, nothing I can say will change that. I can pity them and be nice to them but I can't bring back that unborn baby either. However, if I can prevent someone from having an abortion, even if it's just one person, then I think all of this is not in vain.
I'm not even sure what I was meaning anymore.
So why does she have that right?
I don't have the slightest clue on how to use Mumble xD
