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Lickitysplit · 70-79, M
Divich - the argument over abortion always has been a matter of when a fetus becomes a human child.
Unfortunately both sides have taken extreme position with the pro life activists saying that human life begins at conception. There is a religious argument thatcan be made, but with religious freedom it is not reasonable to impose that position on everyone.
The pro choice activists also have taken the extreme position that a fetus does not become a human until the fetus takes its first natural unassisted breath outside the womb.
The problem is science, medicine, and common sense. If a fetus achieved self awareness, can feel pain, and can survive and grow to maturity outside the womb, even if medical assistance is needed, then it is not reasonable not to consider the fetus at that time to be human ant the termination of its life to be a form of murder.
Unfortunately both sides have taken extreme position with the pro life activists saying that human life begins at conception. There is a religious argument thatcan be made, but with religious freedom it is not reasonable to impose that position on everyone.
The pro choice activists also have taken the extreme position that a fetus does not become a human until the fetus takes its first natural unassisted breath outside the womb.
The problem is science, medicine, and common sense. If a fetus achieved self awareness, can feel pain, and can survive and grow to maturity outside the womb, even if medical assistance is needed, then it is not reasonable not to consider the fetus at that time to be human ant the termination of its life to be a form of murder.