SEE THAT WORD "SCIENCE"? Science is very real. And for anything to be properly called "science fiction", it must include
something that is scientifically accurate. More below.
HAW! HAW!! HAW!!! It is Objective Fact that the words "person" and "human" represent different and unrelated concepts. Even in things not called science fiction, that Fact has been getting taught to children for generations now.
Here's an example from 1951 --if, in that fiction, the non-human was not a legal person, the portrayed legal decision should have been very different.
DEPENDS ON THE SPECIES. When do its members normally acquire the characteristics that
generically can be used to distinguish persons from ordinary animals? Since "human-ness" is provably not one of the relevant characteristics, and since the particular species-ness of any other species is not one of the relevant characteristics (remember, we expect some robots to someday qualify as persons, and they have no species), It Logically Follows that personhood depends on other factors than basic biology.
NOT CHILDREN.
As explained here, unborn humans are so very different from ordinary children that unborn humans should never be confused with children. NEXT, while ordinary abortions are done in a manner that sometimes qualifies as "inhumane", it is possible to do abortions in a manner that never qualifies as "inhumane". The very first step is simply to cut the umbilical cord inside the womb (it has no nerves so cutting it is totally painless).
Lack of oxygen will cause the unborn brain to shut down in rather less than a minute. And in less than 10 minutes death will occur, also from lack of oxygen --but the brain will feel nothing, because it is shut down. After death, of course, what happens to the body is irrelevant with respect to the word "humane".
AN IGNORANT STUPIDITY. You cannot survive without killing, constantly, via your body's immune system, and regularly, via the food you eat. ALSO, an unborn human totally qualifies as a living thing, just like a mosquito qualifies as a living thing. There is no "potential for life" involved.
ONCE AGAIN ABORTION IS DIFFERENT FROM KILLING AN ORDINARY CHILD. Because no unborn human properly qualifies for that label! Don't let thousands of years of ignorance (before modern DNA tests provided new and very relevant knowledge) get in the way of Objectively Verifiable Fact.
NOT ALL BIRTH CONTROL WORKS LIKE THAT. An IUD, for example, and the morning-after pill, prevent womb-implantation of an already-living unborn human entity. And there is nothing wrong with that --remember that
50% of them Naturally fail to womb-implant, anyway.
I SAY NO SUCH THING. While I'm aware that some pro-choicers don't consider unborn humans to be alive, I'm not one of them. They are 100% alive and 100% human.
But neither of those two Facts matter. That's the point abortion opponents can't seem to wrap their minds around, usually because of Stupid Prejudice.
