There is a point I'd like to make about this argument.
There is no brain in the cells for months. There is no mind. There is no intelligence. There is no true life. For months, it's just another part of the mother.
Is having your appendix removed because of appendicitis murder? Is having your hair yanked out manslaughter? Both of those are still millions of cells that are removed from your body and die.
There are medical and moral reasons why abortion, while not something that should be common, shouldn't be disallowed.
As Walrus pointed out, rape is one reason; another is that the baby is deformed or has a high chance of being deformed. If one of the parents is diagnosed with radiation damage to their DNA, for example, it's likely that the baby will be vastly hindered, if not incapable, of ever living a normal life. Would you want to bring someone into the world, only for them to never be able to use their limgs, have intense mental conditions (not something that can be overcome like Jacob and Walrus's Tourette's, but something that can literally make communication and understanding with other people next to impossible), and/or have a life expectancy of 5 years?
I would not endorse it as a response to "Oh, I'd rather not go through the pain of giving birth, so I'll abort this pregnancy", but there are situations when it makes more sense to get rid of those cells.
There is no brain in the cells for months. There is no mind. There is no intelligence. There is no true life. For months, it's just another part of the mother.
Is having your appendix removed because of appendicitis murder? Is having your hair yanked out manslaughter? Both of those are still millions of cells that are removed from your body and die.
There are medical and moral reasons why abortion, while not something that should be common, shouldn't be disallowed.
As Walrus pointed out, rape is one reason; another is that the baby is deformed or has a high chance of being deformed. If one of the parents is diagnosed with radiation damage to their DNA, for example, it's likely that the baby will be vastly hindered, if not incapable, of ever living a normal life. Would you want to bring someone into the world, only for them to never be able to use their limgs, have intense mental conditions (not something that can be overcome like Jacob and Walrus's Tourette's, but something that can literally make communication and understanding with other people next to impossible), and/or have a life expectancy of 5 years?
I would not endorse it as a response to "Oh, I'd rather not go through the pain of giving birth, so I'll abort this pregnancy", but there are situations when it makes more sense to get rid of those cells.