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Originally Posted by GentleArtillery
I believe that abortion is right. I can't see why feti should have the same rights as born human beings. If I was to think abortion was wrong, I wouldn't eat eggs (yes, I know, but we have our own hens and a rooster, and we can't be 100% sure that the egg is unfertilised).
However, I believe that during the later stages in the pre-birth development, it would be wrong to kill it, since it's pretty much an infant then, but is abortion possible when it has developed that much?
Why bring a child to life if it is not wanted?
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I believe abortion is wrong, and I eat eggs, but that's because I don't think eating chickens is wrong. There's a difference between killing an unborn animal and killing an unborn human.
From a legal standpoint, murder of a human is wrong, so why should abortion be legal? The child may not be fully developed, but it's still a human. The fact that the child is "unwanted" is a very poor reason to kill it.
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Originally Posted by GDwarf
A question: If a child was born with nothing but a brainstem (So, they're body would work, but they would never be capable of thinking anything), would you consider them deserving of all human rights?
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Yes I would. It's a mental disability like any other. Killing a child with an underdeveloped nervous system is no different in my mind than killing a severely mentally disabled child.