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 Originally Posted by Poopadoop
What counts as 'human' seems like the question here. Those biological definitions of what counts as human seem too simplistic imo. I think it goes beyond pure biology and into something more to do with sentience. Defining murder as ending the life of something that is 'biologically more human than not human' doesn't seem to work too well.
If a baby is born and the mother decides 'i don't want this' and stuffs it in a trash can that is definitely killing a human (i.e., murder).
If a woman takes a morning after pill and thus aborts a sperm-egg coupling that is distinctly 'human' (as opposed to 'dog' or 'cat' or 'werewolf') inasmuch as it contains human DNA that doesn't seem to me like murder. The thing doesn't have any sentience at that point.
If a foetus is 5 or 6 months old and the mother decides to abort, it's a bit more murky imo.
That's mostly the way I see it.
An added element from me, though, is that I just don't like abortion. Something about it rubs me the wrong way. Just something about it. Regardless of at what stage the abortion is conducted, it is the elimination of a unique human life.
I also think there is probably a negative correlation between how abortion-friendly a society is and how healthy the society is. That's certainly not demonstrated though; it can be easily argued against.
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