Abortion

Finally, someone who provides a real challenge. I have to say, I thought that this was going to be a little less intense, but I hope I am up to the challenge. Firstly, you argue that an unborn baby is not a real human because it is not fully formed. Is anyone really fully formed until they reach the point where their bodies stop growing? This can take years after adulthood. Is it okay to kill them? I know you said that it was different, and I agree, to an extent. It is different to kill a man instead of an unborn baby. You can't hear the screams. You also state that "without a brain, the human is not truly a being." If you lose your arm, do you lose your status of human? If you lose an eye, are you an animal to be killed because you were an inconvenience? What of your heart? With a fake heart (which has been done before and will be done again), do you lose your soul? A brain is just another part of the body, albeit one we can't live without. It provides thought, but thought does not make us human. What makes us human is we were born from humans, live with humans, have the same anatomy as humans, and act like humans. Humanity is not something we gain. It's something we are. I know you will say now: "If our anatomy makes us human, then if someone has a different anatomy, they aren't human, and the unborn baby is just that." I'm sure you can put it better, but such is life. If you have a different anatomy as a fully functional, grown man, you can't be human, right? Actually, a lot of people have a different anatomy than a fully grown male, like: older people, women, children, people with deformities or disabilities, and last of all: a fetus. Just because this baby is different from you (who I am sure has a functional brain), that doesn't make it a petty rat to kill when it's in your way. I would like to look at your sources that you so graciously provided. Abort73 being the first one, let's look at it first. It says on the website that abortion fatalities have happened, and not just the babies, or "fetuses (if that is the wording that you use to dehumanize them). It reads, and I quote: "On average, women give three reasons for choosing abortion: 3/4 say that having a kid would interfere with work, school, or other responsibilities, about 3/4 say they cannot afford a child, and 1/2 say they do not want to be a single mother or are having problems with their husband or partner." Excuse me for saying so, but I do not think that inconvenience is grounds for killing a child. For the 3/4 of the mothers who say they can't afford a child and the 1/2 that say they're having troubles with their significant other, adoption is a real thing, and foster homes do tend to work out in the end. Instead of killing the kid, give him (or her) to someone who wants him (or her). The next source talks of the cost of children. More specifically, raising them. But, as I mentioned earlier, putting a child up for adoption is free. Why kill the kid when some mother with empty nest syndrome so desperately needs someone to love? The next source, 10storiesofsinglemothers.org, has no real real connection to abortion. Okay, these are the stories of real (Australian) mothers who didn't abort. But, if you looked these mothers in the eye and asked them if they wanted to kill their kid, they would say no. Because children are precious, and you can't kill them. If they really wanted to, they could hand them over to someone else. Finally, your questions. I would have started with these, but I already started writing a response before I really read them. Without further ado, the answers you're so eager to hear: 1. A sperm is not a human being, just as you do not call seeds flowers. It needs somewhere to lay its roots before you call it a plant. A fetus or embreo is that same metaphorical plant before it pokes its head out of the soil. 2. No, but a body without a part is. 3. The rights of a fetus are equal to those of a mother. It is not right to kill either. 4. No woman should suffer destitution. Instead of Planned Parenthood, how about we give that money to those women who really need it.