Should the government stop abortions?

[GuidoHunter]

EDIT (ninja'd)

Originally Posted by devonin

I'm saying, if someone can be pregnant, and have a miscarriage and not even be aware that either thing has happened, it provides an argument in support of the idea that for at least a short span of time, nothing remotely resembling a human is inside of the woman.

Ignorance of a pregnancy does not support the notion that what is inside of the woman isn't human!

My story only considered one scenario, but you were making a blanket statement that nobody gets attached to the embryo until it's of a certain size. One situation shows that that's wrong.

I'd say "The point at which it develops a sufficient brain and nervous system to be aware of its own existance and able to take and react to outside stimuli" seems a pretty specific and reasonable point.

Specific, for the most part (like I said, though, that only points to a window, not a specific date for every child). Reasonable? To some. That doesn't change the fact that it's arbitrary, though. Who is to say when exactly we should accord a fetus human rights? I say the simple answer is when it becomes a human: at conception. There's no way to pick out a specific point of a pregnancy (especially one that applies to every child equally) without arbitrary judgment.

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