Abortion is morally acceptable.

I see your perspective on the matter, now let me try to present my perspective of the matter. Abortion is considered murder by a vast community, but let us try and deconstruct the problem with such a notion. Murder is an action and an action cannot arbitrarily be considered good or bad. Rather it is the cause and effect of an action which deems it good or bad. Now though murder is considered bad and moral code dictates that murder of any human is bad, a point which I do agree with, the fact stands that murder is considered bad since it causes agony and suffering to the one against whom it is committed and also against all those who concerned themselves with the life of the one who is murdered. So let me try to categorize what a fetus maybe with regards to the above mentioned facts. We can try and categorize any number of things in any number of ways. But most of the ways which we would consider won't really have relations to the reason for which we wish to categorize something at an instance. Yes there are arguments to categorize fetuses as human and there are arguments which categorize them as non-human or some made up sub-category of human and non-human but most of those categorizations have little to do with understanding abortion and murder of the fetus and its consequences. A fetus which is being aborted need not suffer. In the beginning stages it cannot feel pain, in the later stages it can be kept under the influence of anesthesia while being aborted (if it does really feel pain, something studies still disagree upon) and does not need to suffer or feel grief. Unlike humans ,disabled humans and super humans who do feel pain and can suffer and will suffer if murdered. Thus if we do wish to categorize fetuses in the light of an discussion on murdering, killing or aborting it(chose your choice of word), is it not much better to categorize them as per their ability to suffer than pulling up some completely arbitrary and in most cases irrelevant conditions such as DNA which have no consequence on the action of murdering a fellow human being and the pain related with the act of killing which leads to us condemning such an act as a society. The same conditions can be applied to argue that a fetus need not be categorized as an animal when considering the act of murder. Since an animal suffers but a fetus need not. A fetus is further incapable of conscious thought and sentience thus the question of mental or psychological agony or even thought is unneeded and irrelevant. This fact too must separate a fetus from humans since the absence of sentience means it would not demonstrate the presence of a very critical concept which is present in humans. In fact it can be very well stated that it need not even be categorized as an animal since even basic thought processes and feelings(in any meaningful way that is)are also mostly out of reach of an fetus. Another idea would be that there is not much emotional connections a fetus has made with the outside world and thus ending it wouldn't cause much agony to anyone who would've cared for it. Therefore I do not consider the murder of a fetus though how horrific an act as considered by many of the society I share, to fall under the same moral restrictions and issues which the murder of an human or animal would adhere to. I would further like to add that in cases where a fetus is to be aborted and the child is unwanted, him being born causes suffering to all. When a child is brought into this world no matter how well his conditions and his family's conditions are, he will suffer. In case of an unwanted child he will obviously suffer more. If he has genetic or birth defects he will be suffering pain throughout his life. If he is unwanted he will still suffer the agony of a lack of love and will have to go through the trials and tribulations of the same which is even more true for the developing world where the act of abortion is even more rampant. Thus if aborted in a manner without pain, there is really no harm caused. Causing agony or suffering is also immoral and thus one should not perform acts which ensure that sensations of such are caused. Sources:- 1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... 2. http://www.doctorsonfetalpain.com... 3. http://www.livescience.com... 4. https://www.nytimes.com... 5. http://www.lifenews.com... 6. https://www.scientificamerican.com... 7. http://thebrainbank.scienceblog.com... 8. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... 9. http://www.salon.com...