bedstuy
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« on: August 02, 2013, 10:19:13 AM » |
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I think people are conflating different things when they talk about whether life begins.
Nobody objects to the idea that biologically the beginning of a human life is the creation of a fertilized egg. That's the beginning point of a human life, clearly.
However, people differ on what constitutes a human life, in a meaningful sense that would preclude an abortion. There is a difference for some people between "alive" and an individual human being. Think about the difference between a fertilized egg failing to implant and a later pregnancy miscarriage. I'm not sure on this, but I think the majority of fertilized eggs do not implant. Should people see that as the death of a child? There's a gray area in this that you're not acknowledging.
On the other hand, I hate the flippant tone some pro-choice people use. It is not all about the parents decision. There is a real argument that abortion at a certain point is morally reprehensible, absent some critical health reason for the health of the mother. There are real moral issues at play in abortion and to reduce it to purely a question of pregnant mother's rights is myopic.
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