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Originally Posted by tore
To JWB,
To finish this post off with a slightly lame comment, you can't abort without killing something just like you can't make ham without killing something (even if it's a ham made of tofu). Sometimes you have to choose between the lesser of two evils and perhaps there is no "right" here morally speaking, only the lesser evil.
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Full circle - you get to pick whether you want the ham of tofu or pig. We call that "choice".
There is no fully fucntioning human being at the time of conception endowed with 14th amendment rights. There is a devloping life. A fetus is not a baby as an embryo is not a fetus. Life doesn't begin at conception - life begans prior to conception but not all "life" is sacred. When my wife miscarried we did not get all emotional about the lump of cells that failed to develop. We didn't name the miscarriage and their was no funeral. Mother nature aborts things on a routine basis.
If someone wants to attach some special significance to the moment of conception, good for them as long as they limit their faith belief to themselves. The rest of us can make our own decisions.
Thought experiment - an anti-abortionist (prolifer is a misnomer) happens upon a fertility clinic when a fire breaks out. In a lab to his left he can save 50 embryos waiting for artificial insemination. Or... he can save one unattended child, age 4. He can't save both. What does he do?