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Resembling a mongol, aka, a fucking barbarian.
nice squirm, but it doesn't wash.
"Person-hood" is not the issue. Neither is 'nonviable tissue mass.'
If you were to perform a DNA test you would find that that fetus is undeniably human.
As you well know, I'm not an antiabortionist, but I do acknowledge the core of the debate. If you can discard a human at 8 weeks, then why not 2 years? Or for that matter any individual that is incapable of fending for themselves? It's not a religious issue, although many tend to couch it in those terms. It's a moral issue, does the law extend itself to protect those incapable of protecting themselves or not? And if not, why not? What are the parameters that guide us as to what form of human is protected? And why one and not the other?
We are told by the proponents that it's a "woman's prerogative." She is free to do with her body as she will. The first question is just what gives a woman the right to decide life or death without the victim of the execution having an advocate? After all when it's all said and done that is exactly what's occurring, an execution.
And if we're to buy in to the whole "free to do with her body" gambit then why should prostitution be illegal? Or even regulated for that matter? Why aren't women up in arms over that legal restriction?
Indeed, to not recognize the fetus as human is to engage in a form of rationalization that cannot be supported by any science I know of.
Ishmael
no, of course you aren't antiabortion
and prostitution isn't illegal, at least not in most countries.