cms186 said:
bearassnekkid said:
cms186 said:
bearassnekkid said:
fadskier said:
Waco1947 said:
If the premise is indeed a your pro life belief then I refer you to the dilemma of who to save in the clinic fire - a 5 year life or a 1,000 lives.
There's no dilemma
He knows that. He defeated his own point when he admitted in my hypothetcial that he's save one boy's life instead of two women. Obviously that doesn't mean the two women aren't human, or aren't alive. So the entire "gotcha" in his hypothetical is meaningless. But he's still desperately trying to hang onto it. Anything to justify killing babies.
Unborn Fetuses arent Babies, just fyi, it may sensationalise your POV to call abortion "Baby Murder" but it is inaccurate
If we're making this about semantics, isn't "unborn fetus" redundant?
What we call them doesn't change what they are. Tiny, defenseless human beings. Or do you also object to the notion they are human?
i suppose it is redundant, i apologise.
No, they are unborn humans, i dont agree with late term abortions, but i do think that Abortion is a choice a Woman should be able to make.
To take the argument you are trying to make further, you clearly dont agree with Abortion, correct? even if its within the first month or so of Gestation when the Fetus wouldnt be able to survive outside the womb and isnt even fully formed? Do you agree with people using Birth Control?
So what is the difference between an "unborn human" and a born human?
Size: The unborn is clearly smaller than a born human. It's hard to reason how a difference in size, though, disqualifies someone from being a person. A four year-old is smaller than a fourteen year-old. Can we kill her because she's not as big as a teenager? No, because a human being's value is not based on their size. She's still equally a person even though she differs in that characteristic. In the same way, the unborn is smaller than a four year-old. If we can't kill the four-year old because she's smaller, then we can't kill the unborn because she's smaller either.
Level of Development: (one of your arguments) The unborn is also less developed than a born human being. How does this fact, though, disqualify the unborn from personhood? A four year-old girl can't bear children because her reproductive system is less developed than a fourteen year-old girl. That doesn't disqualify her from personhood. She is still as equally valuable as a child-bearing teen. The unborn is also less developed than the four year-old. Therefore, we can't disqualify her from personhood for the same reason we can't disqualify the four year-old. Both are merely less developed than older human beings.
Environment: (another of your arguments) The unborn is located in a different environment than a born human. How does your location, though, affect your value? Can changing your environment alter your status as a person? Where you are has no bearing on who you are. An astronaut who spacewalks in orbit is in a radically different environment than a person on the planet. No one could reasonably deny his personhood simply because he's in a different location. Scuba divers who swim under water and spelunkers who crawl through caves are equally as valuable as humans who ride in hot-air balloons. If changing your environment can't change your fundamental status, then being inside or outside a uterus can't be relevant either. How could a 7-inch journey through the birth canal magically transform a value-less human into a valuable person? Nothing has changed except their location.
Degree of Dependency: The unborn is dependent upon the mother's body for nutrition and a proper environment. It's hard to see, though, how depending upon another person disqualifies you from being a person. Newborns and toddlers still depend upon their parents to provide nutrition and a safe environment. Indeed, some third-world countries require children to be breast fed because formula is not available. Can a mother kill her newborn son because he depends on her body for nutrition? Or, imagine you alone witnessed a toddler fall into a swimming pool. Would you be justified in declaring him not valuable simply because he depended on you for his survival? Of course not! Since the unborn depends on his mother in the same way, it's not reasonable to disqualify his value either.
Born or unborn. Fully developed or not fully developed. Dependent or not dependent. 4" long or 6'4" tall. In a house, an assisted living center or a uterus. The truth is, NONE OF THESE THINGS MAKE IT OKAY TO TO SNUFF OUT THAT PERSONS LIFE. No argument you make falls outside of one of those four categories unless you say "it's okay for mom to kill for convenience." Some have said that but I don't think you'd be one to do so.