Originally Posted by Fantasea
Embryologists, fetologists, obstetricians, geneticists, and similar medical and scientific experts agree that the occupant of a womb is a living, growing, developing, human child. Proponents of abortion use every means possible in an attempt to de-humanize and, thereby de-value the occupant of a womb.
You said it yourself.It is developing. And the decision whether it should continue to do so in order to become a full functioning human being is the woman's.
You have chosen to read my words in a manner not intended. Read them this way:
......living child ......growing child ......developing child .......human child.
Nothing therein indicates anything less than a full functioning human being since it is functioning exactly as a child in the womb should be functioning. When it is born, it will function as an infant, later as a toddler, later as a pre-schooler, later as an adolescent, later as a teen-ager, later as a young adult, and so forth through many stages of development until finally, it functions as an adult in old age. All of these functions, as well as many not named for the sake of brevity, are tied directly to specific developmental periods from conception until natural death many decades later.
Humanity is not defined by functionality but by the intrinsic condition or quality of being human.
Human life is absolute. It either exists or it does not exist; there are no periods of semi-human or quasi-human life, or some point after conception at which human life appears.
The notion that denies this is simply based upon the political need to devalue life in the womb. Devaluing life in the womb is the only way that abortion advocates justify abortion.
This is the sole argument which supports Roe v. Wade. Remove it and Roe collapses.
Originally posted by Fantasea
Upon what do you base your "consideration"?
Are you planning to answer this question?