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Anyone with a 6th grade education knows it's a Homo sapiens. The only time pro-choice people end up getting into the semantics of 'human' is when pro-lifers try to pretend that a scientific classification of an organism demonstrates any value or legal significance.
There's no hypocrisy unless it's pro-life people who pretend that 'science' is some kind of authority on human social issues.
Once the sperm mates with the egg it is a human. A zygot or fetus is simply a stage in human development. But that isn't a legal recognition. When the right claims legal status from conception they are wrong. Courts determine legal status, and some states award legal status by making abortion past a certain point unlawful. However, legal status is manmade. The right can strive to give legal status from conception if they want. If successful, then legal status from conception will be law. Biology doesn't change, but laws do.Do you think the right is completely honest about it?
Regardless, it is a human that is being killed. Somebody's offspring. If that offspring is unwanted, it's definitely better to abort it. That is doing society a favor. Considering how overcrowded our prisons are, maybe more abortions should have been done. Just avoid the hyprocrisy of pretending the fetus isn't human. Abortion is the killing of human beings for personal reasons. Nothing to be judged for. Being an atheist I can easily accept that we are nothing more than smart monkeys. Abortion is just Darwin at work. In nature most offspring get eaten by predators or starve, so the issue is taken care of naturally. Only the fittest survive. Humans aren't governed by those rules. Natural predators and starvation won't balance things out. So we have to take matters into our own hands, and make nature's decision ourselves.
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