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pinetreesgreen t1_jdjk6no wrote

You said before women should be able to get abortions if their life is in danger.

So now we are just debating if You get to control them in all other situations or not based on arbitrary personal morality. The murder thing clearly isn't real, just an excuse for control. It can't be murder only in one situation, but not in another, correct?

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vexingsilence t1_jdjj6kq wrote

>If you approve of one kind of abortion when the womans life is in danger, you don't actually think it's murder.

Didn't say I approved of it, did I? You were using a very weak debating tactic. It's like people that bring up disabled people or children in a discussion that isn't about them, just to try to divert the flow.

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XEssentialCryIceIs t1_jdjgqvk wrote

I think this is actually the best definition. Once it can maintain homeostasis organically, and I would argue without extreme interventions, it's a living individual. Until then, a fetus is no more a "person" than your liver is. Sure, it's living tissue, but it can't function or survive independent of the body it's attached to.

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XEssentialCryIceIs t1_jdjf6ak wrote

The question just exposes his ignorance. The sperm that inseminates the ovum is "alive", as is the ovum itself. Living things come from other living things; there's no spontaneous generation going on anywhere in this process.

What he's really trying to ask is 'when is it a person', and that's a significantly more difficult question to answer.

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pinetreesgreen t1_jdjeuxg wrote

I'm not even sure you can describe a definition of a convenience abortion. What is that? Is having an abortion so you can take care of your other kids a lifestyle abortion? Probably by your definition. But not to the woman caring for 2 kids and already struggling.

If you approve of one kind of abortion when the womans life is in danger, you don't actually think it's murder. It would still be murder. You just want to control a woman's body based on some outdated notion of morality, but understand her dying without an abortion is really messed up and unpopular.

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ThunderySleep t1_jdjemxt wrote

This. But most people don't see it that way, so it's a question of "when life begins" to most of them.

At the end of the day we assign different value to different lives and most people just don't want to admit it. Which still leaves it a contentious issue because now it's a question of where's the line where it's life is valuable enough to be protected instead of whether or not it is life. If one thing's clear it's that people disagree on where it should be.

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