Talloulou –
But war is not in anyway similar to feticide. The human in the womb has no chance at defending itself.
Neither does the family at the receiving end of a cruise missile attack. Defending oneself has no bearing.
Almost everything kills. Cars driven into people kill the innocent and defenseless. The sun has killed innocent people as the illegally try to invade America along the border. Lots of things kill…that is the difference and it is the one thing that will never be resolved.
Ivan -
The question is what are you gonna do about it bucko?
Well, talloulou answered well. And that is her right to think that. Of course abortion kills...that is not the point though...the debate is
what does abortion kill? You think a human and that is that. Fine. Do not ever have an abortion then. Do not support abortion then.
One side thinks that abortion kills a human that is a human at the point of inception and that this is unacceptable and the other side thinks that it abortion does not kill a human, rather, it kills what should not be described as a human yet, for it is something that is not yet developed into a human.
The female body treats an embryo as if it were a parasite initially. When is an egg a human? When the female is ovulating? When the sperm meets? When it is an embryo? When it is a fetus? Does the woman have the choice to suppress ovulation through artificial means because that kills the egg? Is taking the pill killing the egg and thus killing a human at its earliest stage? Some might think so.
Some people think that prior to the eighth week, aborting a fetus, or killing the fetus, is not the same as killing a human, because they do not think that a fetus is a human. The issue is one of opinion. Since people are debating their opinion as to when a human is a human, people will not agree.
Personally, I do not want women to get abortions. I think that letting an embryo evolve into a fetus, and letting a fetus evolve into what I consider an entity worthy of being called a human being, is the course of action that should transpire. But I also feel that a woman should not have to go through the entire pregnancy against her choice. Period.
That brings us to this one…
Talloulou –
Perhaps this works for you because you have been brainwashed into believing a fetus is cargo! A fetus is a living human at an early stage of development. It is not cargo. It is a human. A young human. A human that can not defend itself. It is not parasitic or tumor like. It is a human in a stage of development that every human goes through.
I like that. I was brainwashed! Actually, I think that I developed the concept of a fetus being cargo all by myself. It is. I do not distinguish between a case of diapers and a person when they are both being transported. They are both a type of cargo. A fetus/baby that is being carried by a mother is a type of cargo. I don’t buy the “we are special because we are human and so we have to distinguish ourselves ABOVE everything else in the universe” garbage. It is a term. It is correct. Get over it. I am cargo when I am on a jet plane traveling across country. Cargo is freight that is carried about. Freight is a burden or load or goods. Oohh. A fetus can be a burden by my description. Yep. Sure can. Therein lays your dilemma. To convince people that an embryo is a human or that a fetus is a human or that a human deserves to live over a whale. I want people or myself to live over the whale, but if I die and a whale lives, then that is simply what happened. Pro-Lifers think that Human Life is so precious that it matters more than anything else. I accept that we are part of life and that people are not so precious that we have to create emotions that are so strong that they blind ourselves to the truth.
