To JWB,
I think we may be on opposite sides of the same argument, something I can of course accept. I agree that we fundamentally morally value humans we cooperate with. But when it comes to fetuses, I think we only fundamentally place moral values in them when we fail to rationalize and attribute to them traits which babies, children or adults can possess - but not fetuses. The ability to rationalize is also a very valuable aspect of being human to which we owe a lot. All this is not to say that a fetus has no moral value, but not so much that the interests of the fetus (something the fetus does not really possess, but which people attribute to it) should come before the interests of the mother.
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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