It has always been the case that you want to limit any discussion of abortion to the very earliest days of conception, Yet you seem to support a woman's right to kill her baby for any reason,(for instance, sex selection or Downs syndrome, or just want to party) at any time up until and including the very act of birth.
Using Latin terms to describe yet-born human beings, has no bearing on their "actual" humanity. Upon fertilization you have a new and distinctly human, being. It seems you are the one that does not understand the meaning of potential, versus actual. You claim to use these terms to avoid sentimentality. Well of course it is easier to dispose of tissue or cells, just like blowing your nose, than it is to consider that you are in fact causing the painful death of your own child. That's not sentiment, that's the reality that many women and their spouses have come to realize they have assented to. They have caused the death of their own child. When a couple is expecting a child they always say we're having a baby, unless they want to kill it then it's a blob of cells, or some other cold and callous term. Does the life that is growing and developing inside the womb change because it's called either? NO!
"An argument for the RIGHTS of human growth should not rely on attributes such as the number of cells, the size of the human growth, and so forth."
This is precisely the question you continue to beg. What constitutes a human being?????????
Why are you arguing at a cellular level if "RIGHTS"
do not depend on it?
You have continually used insulting and derogatory terms for the early stages of human development. WHY? It seems more a ploy to desensitize and cover the ugly truth, that abortion at any stage, is the taking of an innocent Human life. |
