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IF A Fetus Is Not Human Life...

...but just a meaningless bit of tissue, why should abortion not be allowed for any woman anytime anywhere for any reason? Abortion clinics should be as easy to find as dental clinics. In fact why should a woman even have to GIVE a reason? If abortion is about aborting something that isn't human only a bunch of cells that happen to be inside a woman's body then it has no more moral significance than clipping your toe nails or shaving?

But if it is a human life, please explain why should it ever be legal except for danger to the life of the mother ONLY?

The whole pro-abortion argument is illogical and abortionists can mask their shame by saying they are "pro-choice" but should have the courage (and moral bankruptcy) admit they believe a "fetus" has no more claim to existence than a cyst that needs to be removed, though as a nurse I have yet to encounter a cyst that had a heart beat...

If you admit it is life but are for abortion on demand anyway because a woman has a RIGHT to do with what she has inside her body because she "owns" it even if it is human than ethically your argument is the same as slave owners before the US Civil War who said black slaves were THEIRS because having bought them they OWNED them and had the right to feed or starve or beat or kill them as they wished because they lacked the rights of other human beings because they were black...just like a "fetus" does not cause it cannot pronounce your name.
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I have known medical professionals who provided abortions as part of a larger comprehensive OB-GYN practice. Not a single one framed abortion as anything other than killing a fetus.

I have also known women who have received abortions. Not a single one framed abortion as anything other than killing a fetus.
Abrienda · 26-30, F
@CopperCicada I don't care who you've known in the profession or how out of self-interest they "frame" it. If they accepted they were killing a human life that is on them. If not then they are being at best illogical at worst deceptive.

How about you? You believe a "fetus" (you must love Orwell, too) is a mass of tissue comparable to a cyst or a human life? That is the transcendental issue and have no more time for hypocrites.
@Abrienda Of course it's killing a life.

If it wasn't killing a life it wouldn't be killing a fetus. If it's not a life it's not a fetus.
Abrienda · 26-30, F
@CopperCicada I am glad you are willing to admit that ... so are you then in favor of murder on demand?
@Abrienda We've had this conversation before. In summary: I'm not in favor of killing. If you want to come back at me for being a pacifist, I agree in self-defense, including pre-emptive acts of self-defense. If you want to push me into a political position, I advocate for eliminating the root causes of abortion as I do other forms of violence.