Abortion question for pro-lifers. How fully do you consider an embryo to be a person?

I came across an interesting test for pro-lifers. If you're against abortion and think that humanity begins at conception or a fetus is a person what would you do in the following circumstance:

[quote]You're a firefighter and you're responding to a fire at a fertility clinic or some such.
You enter the building and you see on your left, a 3 year old girl and on your right a tank full of hundreds of fertilized embryos ready and intended for implantation.
The tank and the girl both weigh roughly the same amount

Do you save the little girl or do you save the embryos?[/quote]

If you truly consider the embryos to be human life then obviously you must save the hundreds of humans lives over the one.
If you would save the little girl then you must consider how truly you hold those embryos to be people.

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WalksWith · 56-60, F

Very good question indeed! I wonder if you'll get any answers..?

Pikachu

@WalksWith

Thanks!
Hopefully i do. I'm curious.

WalksWith · 56-60, F

@Pikachu

I am too! I also want to know who the 'Global Elite' is, but nobody will tell me on here! Oh well!! I hope they answer your question!

Pikachu

@WalksWith

lol all i know is they're out to get us for reasons

missyann · 56-60

I am 100% pro life. I like most people would choose the 5 year old. There is an emotional attachment to a face. This doesn’t mean the embryos aren’t valuable human lives. Just because I couldn’t save them doesn’t give me the right to smash them and throw them in the fire.

If I had to choose between your 3 children or my 1, I would choose mine. Not because yours aren’t valuable human lives but I have an emotional attachment to mine.

These scenarios are so silly. I know that you are trying to catch a pro life saying that embryos aren’t human beings who deserve to develop to birth. Now I ask you. Would you save your 2 year old, 5 year old or your 8 year old ? whose life is worth saving? They are ALL equally valuable

Just because a fire fighter can’t save everyone, he doesn’t throw his hands in the air and say “. I have to dismember those I can’t save “

No one has the right to intentionally and deliberately kill any innocent human life

Pikachu

@missyann

That "emotional attachment" you mention so dismissively is exactly the point.

The question is meant to determine how much the pro lifer considers an embryo to be a person and the answer you've given is that even hundreds to one, you still value the one more. That emotional attachment to a person rather than an abstraction of a person.

missyann · 56-60

@Pikachu If someone can save 20 people but only choose to save 2. This doesn’t mean the other 18 people aren’t worthy of life and should be intentionally and deliberately dismembered. Neither does an emotional attachment one way or another

BRUUH

I don't really identify as pro-life so I guess this question doesn't apply to me. I'm still thinking through the aboriton issue.

If a fetus is viable outside the womb, and a woman COULD have it pulled out and survive as opposed to terminate it, do you think it's morally wrong to terminate kill the fetus? Late term abortions where the infant could survive outside the womb I mean? Yay or nay. I say nay.

Pikachu

@BRUUH

I think it's a good idea to have a cut off point. I'm not in favour of late term abortions except in the case of the health and safety of the woman.